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If you've read Food for My Daughters: What One Mom Did When the Towers Fell (and What You Can Do, Too) (www.foodformydaughters.com), you may enjoy these BONUS PHOTOS. As you can see, it's not just about food but also features lots of food for thought about a wide variety of ways to increase resiliency. If you haven't read the book, you can order it on Amazon (paperback and Kindle) and Better World Books and enjoy these extras!
Local harvest, simple food! Get more ideas from my book (which isn't a cook book but has a recipe at the end of each chapter, plus some sidebars with flexible suggestions for using your CSA bounty!) www.foodformydaug...
Did I MISS smelling the wisteria flowers this year?!! I think they smell like melancholy, like Littmus Lozenges in the book, Because of Winn Dixie. See "Feeling Wild" on pages 60-62 in MY book for more about this! www.foodformydaug...
My crimson clover started to bloom JUST in time for St. Patty's Day! See more about St. Patrick's Day on page 35 of Food for My Daughters.
My bike! I put this sign on it when I delivered community garden food to the food pantry. LOTS of "biking with my daughters" stories (and the huge things we learned about life) in Food for My Daughters. www.foodformydaug...
Here's one from the March chapter of Food for My Daughters: the "edible paper" from "What Happened During Open Garden When the Angels Blew Their Horns" on page 42.
Here's me push-reel-mowing the lawn, "Causing Little Grass Explosions of Joy"--from page 163 of Food for My Daughters.
Here is my artist friend, mentioned on page 90 in Food for My Daughters, with the painting of onions he was commissioned to paint as a result of an article I wrote about him in Edible Atlanta. I saw him today at the post office!
Food for My Daughters on Amazon, Better World Books, Barnes and Noble, Books-a-Million, and now Powell's Books--click book cover for Powell's site--support a local bookstore from your home! Also, signed copies at Farmer D Organics cute store in Atlanta
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Big thanks to green-living expert Sara Snow for recommending my book, Food for My Daughters. Click photo to see.
Big thanks to Oprah for featuring me in an article about people with passion. Click photo to see.
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Big thanks to Jamie OIiver for asking me to guest blog about growing food for our children. Click photo to see.
Here is what's grown since that final story in Food for My Daughters. Click photo to see a quick video on that previously-unloved, unused piece of land, which has since provided over 2 tons of food to those in need, plus many other tons of food to many other community members.
by Pattie Baker
When my metro-Atlanta community became the newest city in the United States in 2008, I intended to simply bear witness through my writing. I didn't intend to get so involved. Find out what happened, and what you can do where you live, too, in my book, Food for My Daughters.
Find out the woes, wows, and what you can do now to make a difference in your family, city, and beyond. Get tips, inspiring stories, and more about growing food, community, and knowledge, and about helping your children become more resilient in many other ways as well.
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The easiest way to save money on food costs (see page 203)
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Get quick tips for how to make sense of City Hall (if you're involved in urban agriculture and sustainability, you're gonna' end up there at some point). See "Suburban Mom, Meet City Hall" on page 128. Also I write for the national publication, Urban Farm, and you might find this article helpful: pinterest.com/...
Find out how to help where you live be a model urban agriculture city (see page 138)
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I have a particular favorite story about each of my daughters in the book. My favorite story about my younger daughter is called "Hallelujah, or What Biking to School Just Might Have You and Your Children Singing" (on page 156). It includes tips and inspiration for parents. This is the photo (not staged) from the end of the story.
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I have a particular favorite story in the book about each of my daughters. The one about my older daughter is called "A Volley Happening between Mother and Daughter in a Place We Call Home." It's short, and I have yet to make it through it without getting teary. Here is our garden, which was the setting for the story, on that day. This one's for you, moms.
This one is from one of my favorite stories in the book--'As a Favor to Randy" (which refers to Randy Pausch of The Last Lecture). The sweet gum balls, the glow-in-the-dark bubbles, the less-than-perfect blue paint--it's all because of Randy. Parents--I think you'll really like this one (it's on page 123).
The famous chartreuse driving shoes from "Teen Learning to Drive. Mom Learning to Meditate.' This one's for you, parents of teens! Read it on page 220 in Food for My Daughters.
Here is the passion fruit flower from "Alone in the Garden with a Passion Fruit" on page 211. It is said that once you taste the fruit of the passion flower, you will crave it the rest of your life . . . Read to find out more!
Oh, I really love this photo. It's of my grandparents, referred to in "Grandparents Say the Darndest Things" on page 214, where you'll find conversation-starting questions your children can ask their grandparents.
I make pizza throughout the year--it changes based on what's available in the garden. The recipe ("Fresh Harvest Pizza") and some suggestions are on page 140. There is a flexible recipe at the end of each chapter.
This is the specific weekly farm box mentioned in "A Scent (and Sense) That Smacks You on the Side of Your Head" on page 136.
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This one's from "Gone Figging" on page 113. I'm still using up the figs I froze from last summer :)
Here's the bird's nest (from page 117) (I love that photo)
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Here is the original photo, onto which I painted the towers and which was then cropped and used on the book's cover (as told in "Feel Free to Make Your Pictures" on page 155)
Here's the book, by the way. You can find it on Amazon (paperback and Kindle) and on Better World Books. Click to link to the Amazon page, which has a good, long peak inside the book (in both versions); reviews; a video taken in the community garden I helped start; my Twitter feed (@pattiebaker); and more.
The house being painted yellow that caused the brouhaha in "Feeling Wild" on page 60.
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The famous "monkey origami" from "And Into This Madness Came the Monkey Origami" on page 26.
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The "dough man" from page 59 of Food for My Daughters.
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Everyone wants to see Dancer Tree (from page 39) You wouldn't believe how many emails I've gotten asking to see it! Well, here it is.
From "This Is a Test" from page 15 of Food for My Daughters (Atlanta completely shut down for 5 days--but I had food under my covered hoops!)
My younger daughter playing "Let It Be" in the hammock on the warm day in January that kicks off Food for My Daughters.
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Yes, I gave my teen my journals from when I was her age, as mentioned on page 13 of Food for My Daughters. Here is a photo from one of them.
I share how I came to this "mantra" of mine in "One Change Begets Another" on page 12 of Food for My Daughters.
This is from page 9, "The Seeds We Planted Grew!" (from a weekly event I called Open Garden, when I threw my garden gate open for the neighborhood kids because I was tired of advocating and waiting for a school garden).
Oh, I love this one. This is from "Web of Life" on page 5 of Food for My Daughters. My older daughter made this. That story's for you, moms of tweens.
Here is the joyful painting on the side of an art gallery to which I refer on page 3 of Food for My Daughters.
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Here are my mom and younger daughter from the Friday after 9/11/01, during a national synchronized candle-lighting (note candles in my mom's hands). The reaction I had to this week is mentioned in the intro to Food for My Daughters (and is the impetus for why I decided to grow food for my daughters, and set out on this unexpected journey).
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