Thinking with the wild. Eating from the wild.

By Carolyn Raffensperger

I’ve just discovered a secret about food and sustainable diets.  I tasted a hint of this secret when I went to visit my mother on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the shores of Lake Superior, that mysterious, cold, dark sea, with its edge of northern woods and rock.  Friends brought thimbleberry jam [...]

Roadside trash ecology

By Nancy Myers

There is an ecology of roadsides. Right now it’s lovely in southwest Michigan. Cutleaf toothwort, a small white ephemeral, spills out from the woods into the ditches. The grass is fresh. The poison ivy hasn’t shown up yet. Garlic mustard is just starting to raise its bushy, invasive heads. Deer graze the ditches [...]