A life tapestry woven of baking bread and growing food and bearing children.
Chronicling one week of creating something out of something by hand.
On the beauty of choosing the "by hand" way, while honoring the divine purposes of all human activity.
Facilitating food and gatherings via the tools of technology.
A farmer reflects on lessons from twelve years of harvests that apply to growing vegetables and far beyond.
A meditation on receiving with the original intention of giving.
Mini-reviews of three new books that will make you smile: on parenting, plenty and pranking.
Navigating family culinary traditions around the holidays with grace and vision.
Modest proposals for the future life of 22,000 square feet and four acres.
Maybe you should try them, too!
Under the influence of urban naturalism, an inner-city neighborhood can be a wonder-full place.
Growing a church community around the centrality of the shared feast.
Word play leads to serious food play when it comes to communion.
On the results of a steady diet from the industrial entertainment system.
Can food, music and paintings all come in the same zany flavors?
An interview with Joy'l Ver Heul, organizer of a locally grown wedding show.
Sorting out the essentials and non-essentials of the ceremony.
When the complexities of life after community living show up in the produce section.
What the author learned about food systems by cleansing her body of yeast and toxins.
A review of Harriet Brown's memoir Brave Girl Eating: The Story of a Family's Struggle with Anorexia.
On the twentieth century's food legacy, and what the first century might have to say about it.
On Protestant theology and the revival of discipline.
A list of seasonal comfort foods to warm the whole person.
A list of favorite foods, in no particular order.
As *cino continues to develop a vision for its historic school property in Three Rivers, Michigan, a list of ways to continue and to grow.
Excavating the meaning and practices of humility.
On the joys and challenges of gathering over a meal.
Remembering the small town grocery store and lamenting its loss.
Reflecting on the relationships that make local shopping the best bargain.
A journey from bedside reading to the grocery store.