Table of Contents

Features

4 Think Little

Victories are all around us

BY CAROLINE TAYLOR

7 History Comes Alive at

Seneca Schoolhouse

Today’s schoolchildren happily embrace the rituals of a Victorian classroom

BY KNIGHT KIPLINGER

12 Flower Power

There’s something new under the sun

BY TOM PRECHT

16 Cultivating Community

Locals and Riverworks Art Center Enliven Poolesville

BY WIB MIDDLETON

20 Our Food Waste Nightmare

What we have done and how we can fix it

BY SOPHIE KIDD

26 The Enduring Oak

Its preeminence in the cycle of life

BY ELLEN GORDON

 

Departments

24 Food Matters

BlackRock Reimagined

BY LYNN ARNDT

28 An Eye for Beauty

Gardening for Wildlife

BY JANE GAMBLE

32 Farmfront

MoCo’s Farming Future is Sound

BY MICHAEL SHULMAN

36 Going Local

Making Local Food Whole

BY ALLISON TJADEN

38 Recipe Box

A Tale of Two Cooks

BY CLAUDIA KOUSOULAS

42 Out in Nature

Making the Magic Happen:

Behind the Scenes at Calleva

44 Creative Enterprise

A Love for Charcuterie Takes

Local Artisanal Operation Big Time

BY WIB MIDDLETON

49 Shop the Reserve