by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Climate Change, Food
Agroecology is a term that’s been around awhile; a scientific discipline developed as an answer to not only counteract the damage caused by industrial farming practices but as a deterrent to causing more harm. It studies how different aspects of the...
by Lillian Lake | | Climate Change, Food, Spiritual
The Lakota phrase Mni Wiconi meaning Water is Life inspires and encourages humanity to protect, honor, and respect the water. Why should we care? In their explanation of the existence of life, scientists, politicians, and religious leaders have failed to understand...
by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Climate Change, Food
Water is life. Every river, brook, stream, lake, sea, and ocean is essential to all life and from which we get all life. Watching a stream as it travels, you can see how humble it is, and yet, it carries minerals, sticks, leaves, and assists fish and frogs. Water...
by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Farms, Food
“The road goes ever on and on. Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone…” (J.R.R.Tolkien) Before I sat down to the computer this morning to do my daily writing, I sat pondering how far we’ve come from the days of living in a cave to the...
by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Farms, Food
I’m at the end of a tough week that included facilitating family caregiving groups twice a week and reuniting a lost four-year-old with her father. The child had wandered away in the grocery store. Because he kept apologizing, I had a distinct impression the father...
by Lillian Lake | | 21 Day Self-care Tune-up, Food
Father’s Day is June 20th. So I asked my Twitter followers if they remember their dad doing any cooking. As most men responded, I think there must be a special bond between dads and sons when it comes to cooking. Responses ranged from pancakes to barbeques. One man...
by Lillian Lake | | Food, Recipes, Uncategorized
Casseroles are an American classic. In the 1950s the American homemaker designed casseroles to be easy, budget-friendly, and nutritious and often used leftovers. Food shortages existed during World War l and ll. These shortages taught homemakers to be thrifty and the...
by Lillian Lake | | Food, Recipes
This girl had a flu virus for eleven days, so now she’s addressing the need to catch up. I prefer to be ahead, but now that I’m behind, I may just accept that I’m not going to catch up. Like in high school how I dealt with the old math problem about...
by Lillian Lake | | Caregiving, Food
Valentine’s Day has been celebrated every year since about the 14th century. Pakistan and Indonesia forbid the idea of Valentine’s Day, but in America, many of us think about it and how we will make the holiday our own. Part of me isn’t a fan of Valentine’s Day,...
by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Farms, Food
In the late 1970s, grain prices were significantly down, farms auctioned at record numbers, and seemingly, people had forgotten how their food got to the table. Grocery stores magically had an abundance of food. I was a youngster then, but I remember asking my then...
