Fare Well Friday: What Fills My Cup

Things that have nourished me this week (+ a mini recipe)

This week I’m beginning a new feature I’m calling “Fare Well Fridays”, puns fully intended. First: “fare” is both a word for food (“I enjoy simple fare”) and for a state of being or achievement (“How did you fare on your journey?”) In one sense, “Fare Well” could simply mean to partake in delicious food - something I always encourage - and it is also, of course, an expression of leave-taking. I’ve found that I benefit greatly from logging off social media completely for the weekend, as both a contributor and a consumer, and so: “Fare Well Fridays” a deliberate send-off, an expression of gratitude for what has nourished me through the week and a goodbye-for-now to the digital world until Monday. With some recipes thrown in.

This week has been particularly abundant in so many ways. In my “chaos garden”, seeded in neat little rows before a massive rainstorm and now an untamed wildland of tomatoes, zinnias, cowpeas, buckwheat, sunn hemp, and watermelon, one solitary sunflower plant (an ear…