A month ago, I took a pledge to cut our grocery bills down to $70 a week for four weeks and give the extra $50 a week that I normally spend to charity and/or interesting causes. I thought it would be hard to spend so little on food, but in fact it wasn’t difficult at…
Tag: food justice
{i am not a foodie} A Pledge to Simplicity
I have been shopping at food coops and farmers markets since the 1970s when I was a student in California. I started a modest vegetable garden in high school, stopped during college, and resumed gardening when we bought our first house. I did graduate research on the effect of crop rotation on insect populations in…
