A few years ago, Hugh and I started our new Thanksgiving tradition of adopting a turkey from Farm Sanctuary. We can’t, of course, house a turkey in our one-bedroom flat without significant lifestyle changes. A pigeon rescue is about the most we’ve been able to handle in person. But Farm Sanctuary offers remote adoptions of
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William Shakespeare gets some bad rap for all of the Starlings. The story (or rumor) goes that some Victorian-era Shakespeare fans — misguided to be sure — hatched a plan to colonize, on U.S. soil, every bird species featured in Shakespeare’s plays.
According to this Scientific American article a group known as the American Acclimatization
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I have Colleen Patrick-Goudreau at Compassionate Cooks to thank for this post. Patrick-Goudreau is an Oakland-based vegan cook, author and speaker. I landed on her page while looking for some vegetarian counterpoints to the current offal-tinged culinary scene — and the food ethos sprung from the words of Michael Pollan.
Pollan in his early writings
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I received the certificate below in the mail this week from Farm Sanctuary. It’s a tangible representation of “Faye,” our adopted Thanksgiving turkey. Farm Sanctuary offers a beautiful and alternative way to celebrate “turkey day” — by making a contribution toward the well-being of a rescued turkey on one of the sanctuary farms (New York
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