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Kate Flora: From time to time, a casual conversation with friends will remind me how different it is to have grown up on a Maine farm, actively tied to the seasons and the production of food. Yes, we got some of our food from grocery stores, but what we could raise ourselves, we did. In…
Kate Flora: Yesterday would have been my mom's birthday. She's been gone for years but I still miss her every day. She was a writer--and my inspiration--and also a gardener, a baker, and a keen observer of the world around her. (She has kindly lent her observation skills to Joe Burgess.) Since I am thinking of…
Kate Flora: I was going to write today about authors sharing some of the best, and worst, writing advice they’ve ever gotten. But something about the impending snowstorm got me thinking about Maine winters of long ago and about the way that growing up in the country and on a farm has had a lingering influence on my life and how I think, especially about land and food. For much of my adult life, I’ve lived in a suburban community where I can see the lights of my neighbor’s houses at night. That wasn’t the case growing up. We lived in an 1811 farmhouse on a hilltop overlooking Senne...