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Does the Food Pantry of the Future Involve Payment?

Chris Costanzo The Counter
A monthly fee is very out of the ordinary in charitable food, but Rumpsa noted that it’s a minor aspect of the new model. Food Club is more about offering convenience in an uplifting environment along with choice and high-quality food.

Kaddish

Esther Kamkar
Esther Kamkar’s prayer for the dead addresses the vast universality of war’s human tragedy.

Honoring the Ukrainian Roots of American Wheat

Amy Halloran Modern Farmer
The flavorful grains that transformed the North American prairies during the 19th century into a continental breadbasket were varieties native to Ukraine’s Black Earth districts of Crimea and Galicia [now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine].

On a Day of Remembrance

Jed Myers Rattle
Washington state poet Jed Myers warns we may be hard-wired to fear and hate, but must remember the consequences for humanity.