Having myself over for dinner
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2009, Joy-Elizabeth Lawrence explores the many…
Read More1.9 Sharing Food
Act Neighborly
Thomas Jefferson, Tod points out, presumed on the basis of colonial experience that farming and democracy are intimately connected. Cultivation of land meets the…
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Growing a legacy, one tomato at a time
It is a cool and damp morning on this day late in September, after a night of hard rain and blustery winds that flipped…
Read MoreAbundance of nature
The garden’s season-long transit from seed to ripe fruit—will you get a load of that zucchini?!—suggests that the operations of addition and multiplication still…
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Blueberry Bruce
Planted a sandy pile far back past the swing-set in full sun over top that dead dog buried there. And as worms ribbon in…
Read MoreRealize the impact
We have lost the innate knowledge and traditional crafts essential to countless functions for our daily survival, with the end result being a disconnection…
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Give us this day
Sunday after church: we tumble through the front door of Grandpa and Grandma’s house, kick off our Sunday shoes in a pile in the…
Read MoreShare our lives
Thinking about, gathering, researching (menus, diets, recipes), and preparing food for others is very real sharing. What sort of coffee, tea, or cocoa does…
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