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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Before I worked for the Food Project, I was on the crew at Burlington, Vermont's Healthy City Youth Farm. This awesome vlog post by 7Days's Eva Sollberger epitomizes this place, and the youth urban ag movement in general. Those who don't share fondness for the faces in this film will be drawn in nonetheless, I'm sure. Look out for forthcoming video content from Bean / Cod on the summer of 2008 in Lynn!

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Airborne / Earthbound

And sitting in the eye of this updraft, transmission node between sky and earth, the rolling-suitcased crowd moving bluetoothed and Blackberried, making a show of frictionlessness. But I'm surrounded by ungainly weight, earth-freight dragging at my sleek ascent. The baggage-checkers are looking with suspicion, I'm sure, at the array of small packages full of fragrant things, paste, seeds, vinegars, and a brace of glistening knives for the reduction of all to digestible mince. All this I fold carefully into my clothes, sowing my suitcase's clean-smelling body with inward hidden pouches of strong scent. Who knows what the drug-sniffing dogs will think. Certainly not: this is a man in denial, dragging his feet awkwardly through this life of frictionlessness and constant motion. His life makes him slide all around the world like a blown milkweed, but he can't resist hanging onto the literal dirt of where he comes from. Look, he's got a bag of fresh unwashed garlic heads, reeking of loam.

Outside the glass walls cars slide along in reptilian calm, their insides refrigerated and unperturbed by the heat, or by the raging fires under their hoods. The sky hurting white, hard sunlight, the hum of engines thickening the walls of an invisible greenhouse arcing above the earth. I sip cool water, suck in the internet through the air, and wait.