within easy reach is a collection of poems about gathering local foods. The poems capture the experience of harvesting edible wild plants and foods produced in gardens, orchards, and apiaries. The poems also explore our relationship with nature. They seek to re-establish our connection with nature in the most basic of ways, through growing and gathering our food.
In New Brunswick, many of us eat fiddleheads, blueberries and maple syrup. In coastal areas, some still crave a feed of goosetongue greens. Families enjoy a fall outing in the apple orchard or a June morning...
within easy reach is a collection of poems about gathering local foods. The poems capture the experience of harvesting edible wild plants ...
