Most of my early professional work was ethnographic, having received doctoral training in anthropology. I later began crafting stories with materials, sounds and light to express what is beyond language. I still work in relationship with people but mostly, nowadays, with plants and soils whose lessons are far worthier of our attention.

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Peck Slip Pickle Fest

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Erin and I are preparing for our stall at this weekend’s Peck Slip Pickle Fest. Stop by this Sunday, 11-4p. We’ll be featuring Wilderness of Wish tools and provisions:

  • apartment canners
  • spatula-spoons (that we can’t keep in stock…pictured here)
  • ladles, a trio
  • Erin’s Sweet-Sour Beet preserves and other sundries from Big Sis Little Dish
  • a Hungarian plum drying rack
  • THE handbook to have in your pantry (and the book with the longest title ever) Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning: traditional techniques using salt, oil, sugar, alcohol, vinegar, drying, cold storage and lactic fermentation by the gardeners and farmers of Terre Vivante.

I worked with Nancy Ralph & the NY Food Museum on the first few Pickle Fests back in her East Village years. If I can find them, I'll post photos of from a very late night of embarrassing downtown  pickle theater + music with Rick Field of Rick’s Picks. Be afraid. See you Sunday! 

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