Excerpt from Braiding Sweetgrass

“The Honorable Harvest” chapter in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book Braiding Sweetgrass both asks the relevant questions and provides guidelines for us to use when making decisions about food (or anything else we consume):

If we are fully awake, a moral question arises as we extinguish the other lives around us on behalf of our own. Whether we are digging wild leeks or going to the mall, how do we consume in a way that does justice to the lives we take? [...]

The Unrealized Radicalness of a Home Garden

by Elizabeth Keokosky
Ithaca Meeting

Abridged from a larger article available at www.tompkinsweekly.com/category/opinions-columns/sustainable-tompkins/

Selected Readings from QEW’s BeFriending Creation