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Field Notes: Container vegetable gardening

​​The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Author’s note: For the next seven weeks, Field Notes will focus on sustainable living, community agriculture and food security. These “Summer of...

Field Notes: Editing is the hardest part

​​The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. The apex of my college years occurred on an October Sunday afternoon in 1982. Just after 2 p.m., I typed the last word of a paper on Egyptian boat-building...

Field Notes: A romantic stance on farm stands

​​The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. You are driving home. It’s not a long trip, not so long as to be tedious, anyway. You’re coming from a joyful event, a wedding maybe or a birthday...

Field Notes: That’s not much of an organ, Magnus

​​The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Mine was not a musical family. None of my siblings played an instrument, my mother didn’t even like listening to music, and none of us could carry a tune...
Field Notes: And now, the rest of the story

Field Notes: And now, the rest of the story

​​The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. As a writer, I tend to be a tinkerer. I want to rewrite and rewrite forever and ever. That’s why I like writing this column every week for the Speckled...

Field Notes: It’s still moving

​​The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. The Easter pictures from Ohio in my family’s Facebook posts were of the winter wonderland variety; my hometown got three inches of snow over the weekend....