New Issue Alert!
By the time this missive reaches you, we will be loading our cars with boxes of our summer issue! And you get a sneak peek of the cover!
What a joy it is to receive each shipment of a new issue. There’s much anticipation and anxiety leading up to receiving pallets stacked high with some 2000 pounds of magazines, but once we open the first box we can’t wait to share it with our community.
The Rainbow Connection, our Summer 2024 Issue, is no exception. From makers making changes in the industry, to colorful recipes and stewarding the food leaders of tomorrow, this issue contains stories of community, creative endeavors, and love.
We’re honored to share it. Look for it at your favorite local business. Live outside the region? Give us a follow and we’ll post a digital version next week.
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Thanks for reading, happy eating, and enjoy your weekend,
Lisa - Publisher & Editor
EVENTS
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6.15 Summer Solstice Fest - Blacksburg
6.15-6.17 Batteaux & Banjos - Gladstone
6.21 Veritas Supper Series Feat. Chef Sarah Rennie - Afton
6.26 Chef Tasting Series at Eastwood - Charlottesville
6.23 Oenoverse Cookout - Charlottesville
6.29 First Bank Beer & Wine Festival - Roanoke
6.29 Stars & Stripes Spectacular - Spotsylvania
7.06 National Coop Day!
MORE TO CHEW ON
🏖️ As we head to the beach this summer, should we consider the cost of shrimp? 🦐Health benefits and labor practice of the industry- NYT reports
Think it’s too late to plant your garden 🌻? - Modern Farmer begs to differ
Six Seconds of Darkness- Lightning Bugs in the Smokies 💡 - from The Bitter Southerner
WHAT WE’RE COOKING
Peach season has officially started this week! Orchards across the region are open and we’re making fried chicken tacos with peach salsa for dinner.
POEM OF THE WEEK
Landscape, Dense with Trees
By Ellen Bryant Voight
When you move away, you see how much depends
on the pace of the days—how much
depended on the haze we waded through
each summer, visible heat, wavy and discursive
as the lazy track of the snake in the dusty road;
and on the habit in town of porches thatched in vines,
and in the country long dense promenades, the way
we sacrificed the yards to shade.
It was partly the heat that made my father
plant so many trees—two maples marking the site
for the house, two elms on either side when it was done;
mimosa by the fence, and as it failed, fast-growing chestnuts,
loblolly pines; and dogwood, redbud, ornamental crab.
On the farm, everything else he grew
something could eat, but this
would be a permanent mark of his industry,
a glade established in the open field. Or so it seemed.
Looking back at the empty house from across the hill,
I see how well the house is camouflaged, see how
that porous fence of saplings, their later
scrim of foliage, thickened around it,
and still he chinked and mortared, planting more.
Last summer, although he’d lost all tolerance for heat,
he backed the truck in at the family grave
and stood in the truckbed all afternoon, pruning
the landmark oak, repairing recent damage by a wind;
then he came home and hung a swing
in one of the horse-chestnuts for my visit.
The heat was a hand at his throat,
a fist to his weak heart. But it made a triumph
of the cooler air inside, in the bedroom,
in the maple bedstead where he slept,
in the brick house nearly swamped by leaves.
Ellen Bryant Voigt, “Landscape, Dense with Trees” from The Lotus Flowers (New York: W.W. Norton, 1983). Copyright © 1987 by Ellen Bryant Voigt. Looking for our Summer Issue? Order an annual subscription for $28 and have it mailed right to your door. Or, find it at one of these businesses who offer it as their gift to you.
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