by Bonnie Baxter | Jun 17, 2021 | GOOD READS
JESS KAPADIA – foodrepublic Peak summer tomato season is approaching, so we’re gathering all the information we can on making the most of this sweet, juicy and ultra-versatile garden bounty. You can devour tomatoes until they disappear for the winter, but here’s... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Apr 27, 2021 | GOOD READS
Red poppy from A Curious Herbal by Elizabeth Blackwell, 1737. (Available as a print and as a face mask benefitting The Nature Conservancy.) “GARDENING AS RESISTANCE: Notes on Building Paradise” by Maria Popova “Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Jan 20, 2021 | GOOD READS, JANUARY 2021, THE PATCH
Some food for thought. About ‘development’ : “… It is a pleonasm because, according to Rostow, development means ‘self-sustaining growth’. And it is an oxymoron because development is neither sustainable nor self-sustaining. Let us be quite clear... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Dec 22, 2020 | DECEMBER 2020, GOOD READS
The book itself is a gift to everyone, and needs to be shared as much as possible. “modern capitalist societies, however richly endowed, dedicate themselves to the proposition of scarcity. Inadequacy of economic means is the first principle of the world’s wealthiest... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Oct 3, 2020 | GOOD READS, OCTOBER, THE PATCH
“Most of us who live in the North and the West consume far too much – too much meat, too much fat, too much sugar, too much salt. We are more likely to put on too much weight than to go hungry. We live in a society that is heading for a crash. We are aware of... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Oct 2, 2020 | GOOD READS, OCTOBER, THE PATCH
The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage you stand in the center of your room, house, half-acre, square mile, island, country, knowing at last how you got there, and say, I own this, is the same moment when the trees unloose their soft arms...