Good food starts in the ground. So as we greet spring, we’ve got growth and gardens on the brain. There’s nothing more delightful than scoping out seed catalogs, envisioning your garden-to-be, or that first whiff of damp, thawing ground as the temperatures begin to creep up. Now is the time to let your imagination run wild—before the realities of space, time and weather can limit the garden of your daydreams. This issue is filled with inspiration and resources to help you garden creatively and look at your yard (or patio, balcony or indoor planters) with fresh eyes.
Planting seeds is a hopeful act. You can’t help but smile when a seedling cautiously pokes its first bright green leaf out of the soil. Tending a garden from spring through fall is to surrender to and dance with the rhythms of life and the cycles of nature. But because of climate change, sometimes these rhythms feel a little off-beat, and the cycles seem completely out of whack. In his article, Dylan Bruce explores how this new reality is impacting the vegetable farms of our region, and how farmers are adjusting their methods in response. Personally, the urgency of the climate crisis is hitting me harder than ever before, especially as the mother of a tiny human. We all have a part to play in healing humanity’s relationship with the earth. It’s going to take all kinds of solutions, innovations and paradigm shifts to get to a place of actual sustainability, but I have to believe we can and will get there.
If you’re looking for some hearty fare to start the day off right, as usual, Lauren Rudersdorf has you covered with an array of breakfast sandwich recipes gathered from our chef community. Let’s grab a cup of coffee and get dreaming!
We hope you soak up all the magic that springtime has to offer.
Let’s dig in!
Lauren Langtim
Managing Editor
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