Bio: Colleen Stewart worked for a few newspapers before realizing an inclination to tell agricultural stories. Laying pen and camera to rest, she spent a blissful/sweaty nine months growing vegetables at Woodland Farm. She is in Kathmandu now, pen and plant in hand, as media manager of Hariyo Chowk urban garden. Her legacy may be summarized as "girl who ate unidentifiable things and could plant a mean lettuce quilt.”
Simon Mwendapeke Tshitimana, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, laid out his produce on the table at the Bluegrass Global Growers Market: eggplant; tomatoes; a pumpkin-like green squash; and roselle, a sour perennial herb common to African … Continue reading
On a 100-degree day in July, nine teenagers rolled up Field Day Family Farm’s gravel road in a van coming from Neighborhood House in Portland. It was harvest day. The carrots, beets, yellow warty squash, one lingering strawberry, basil, garlic, … Continue reading