Preview our Summer Issue!
The sun is out! It’s amazing how a few rainy gray mornings followed by the sun welcoming in the day shifts my whole perspective. A friend yesterday said, “I think I’m solar-powered,” and what a delightful phrase that perfectly captures the sentiment of today ☀️☀️☀️.
We’re also feeling energized here at Edible Blue Ridge as our Summer Issue is at the printer! In two short weeks, it will appear in partner locations across the region and we’re delighted to share a sneak peak of the cover!
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Lisa - Publisher & Editor
EVENTS
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5.30-6.01 Lebanese Festival - Roanoke
6.05-6.08 Monticello Wine Week - Afton/Charlottesville
6.07 Roots & Rhythms: A Celebration of Black Farmers & Food Traditions -Roanoke
6.13-6.15 Savor: Chefs, Farmers, & Friends - Pembroke
WHAT WE’RE COOKING
POEM OF THE WEEK
Baby Wrens’ Voices Thomas R. Smith I am a student of wrens. When the mother bird returns to her brood, beak squirming with winged breakfast, a shrill clamor rises like jingling from tiny, high-pitched bells. Who’d have guessed such a small house contained so many voices? The sound they make is the pure sound of life’s hunger. Who hangs our house in the world’s branches, and listens when we sing from our hunger? Because I love best those songs that shake the house of the singer, I am a student of wrens. Copyright Credit: Poem copyright ©2005 by Thomas R. Smith, whose most recent book of poetry is Waking Before Dawn, Red Dragonfly Press, 2007. Poem reprinted from the chapbook Kinnickinnic, Parallel Press, 2008, by permission of Thomas R. Smith and the publisher. The poem first appeared in There is No Other Way to Speak, the 2005 “winter book” of the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, ed., Bill Holm.
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