February 17, 2025

This week, I was surprised to find small sandwich bags of mini whole cucumbers for sale on the shelves at Argus. At this point in the year, I tend to be used to the usual Michigan winter storage crops: onions, potatoes, rutabaga, beets, carrots, and more root vegetables. We also have plenty of winter squash and apples harvested and stored by our local farmers.

February 6, 2025

Happy New Year!  New year, same commitment to promoting positive relationships to food, body, and community. As a dietitian, part of my practice is critiquing the systems that cause food and nutrition deficits without criticizing the food itself. (We are all doing our best to eat in a way that takes care of ourselves, and criticizing food is not usually helpful, nor warranted.) In the same way that someone might be critical of our economic system without criticizing people who have to survive in it, I try to evaluate food and the food system as two different things.