This Bridge Called My Garden: Personal Growth & Social Change

Lately so many media and new books touch on the intersection that inspires me most--that is producing and eating food mindfully, this week the NYT features zen gardening in Marin and an urban garden project in Brooklyn.

Do we see the connection between these two projects? How can we be the bridge?

Guess What. . . Access to Fresh Food Improves Health

Today's NYT reports that many communities lack for supermarkets. The graphic they constructed with a mapping of the demographics of obesity onto the distribution of fresh food purveyors makes our point even more strongly that we should continue to interrogate how limited or no access to healthy food, in affluent countries such as ours, relates to the confluence of global factors that produce the current food crisis.