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I write.

Please enjoy a sampling of my work as a writer and editor. Additional clips may be available upon request.
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The Troubled History of Inclusion in American Outdoor Spaces, April 2021
A State-By-State Guide to Climate Change Plans in the Northeast, February 2021
Runners High: Relive an Epic Single-Day Presidential Traverse Trail Run, Summer 2020
more articles @ AMC
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Will Robot-Led Restaurants Be a Gift or a Curse to Food Workers? 5.3.18
Your Pea Protein Primer
, 4.2.18
How Leaving Stores Closed For Years Helps Grocery Chains and Hurts Communities
, 1.22.18
Should School Cafeterias Be More Like Fast Casual Restaurants?
11.29.17
Reporting on the World's Most Controversial Farm Chemical
, 10.10.17
From Coal to Kale: Saving Rural America With Local Food, 9.20.17
Will the Amazon-Whole Foods Deal Mean Better Food For All? June 20, 2017
Getting Food on the Candidates' Plates, Aug. 31, 2016
Does Food Tech Help Farmers? May 5, 2016
Is Rural North Carolina the Next Flint?, Mar. 23, 2016
Most Farm Issues Absent in Iowa's Presidential Race, Jan. 27, 2016
The Top 5 Food Problems Americans Want the Next President to Fix, Oct. 20, 2015
Majoring in Food: Colleges Offering More Courses, Degrees, Sep. 22, 2015
5 Ways America's Farmers' Markets Have Evolved, Aug. 5, 2015 (reposted at Harvest Public Media)
How Buying Smaller Fruit Could Save CA's Family Farms, June 22, 2015
Walmart's Sustainability Promises: Myth vs. Reality, June 5, 2015
Vermont: America's Food Relocalization Laboratory, May 12, 2015
Is the Strawberry Field the Next Farmworkers' Rights Battleground? March 26, 2015

More clips at CivilEats.com
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Tawakál Halal Cafe, Spring 2021
Farthest Star Sake
, Winter 2021
Eastie Farm: The Little Farm that Could, Summer 2019
Kitchen Transparent, Fall 2018
Start Me Up: Innovating and Collaborating in the New Food Economy, Winter 2018
Kindred Spirits: Short Path Distillery, Winter 2018
Five Way Foods, Fall 2017
Hole Foods: Inside Boston's Bagel Boom, Spring 2017
Love Those Dirty Fingernails, Summer 2016
Did Doug Rauch Just Fix Food Deserts and Food Waste?, Spring 2016
Landing on their Feet, Winter 2016
From the Rooftops, Fall 2015
Culture Club: Potter Jeremy Ogusky Spearheads the Local Fermentation Movement, Winter 2014
Beer Culture Shift, Spring 2014
Meat Market, Summer 2013
Cooking in Suburbia, Spring 2013
Kindred Spirits: Ipswich’s Privateer Rum, Fall 2012
Feeding Boston, Summer 2012
Guilt-Free Fast Food, Spring 2011 (selected for Best Food Writing 2011, published by Da Capo Press)

More clips at www.EdibleBoston.com
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Bottle Shock (La Garagista Winery), April 2016
Cocoa Loco (Rogue Chocolatier), December 2015
Right on Cue (Andy Husbands' Smoke Shop), October 2015
Raising Boston's Spirits (Boston Harbor Distillery), June 2015
Hitting a Sour Note (Heritage Vinegar), March 2015
Building Buzz (Gracenote Coffee), February 2015
Did Massachusetts Fail Alleged Murderer Donald Rudolph?, May 2012
Old Dog, New Tricks (Que Padre), January 2013
The Not-as-Bad-For-You Treat (UNREAL Candy), October 2012
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The Psychology of Boston's Snow Parking Wars, Jan. 22, 2018
Where Do Urban Animals Go When Their Habitats Disappear? Nov. 16, 2017

Undocumented Youth Will Fight for DACA, Sept. 7, 2017
What's the Future of Urban Farmer's Markets? Sept. 5, 2017
Can Baby Bonds Help Shrink the Wealth Gap? July 11, 2017
Why Can't America Solve the Hunger Problem? June 13, 2017
What Can Substitute Teachers Do For City Schools? Nov. 16, 2016
Pinpointing the Health Impacts of Urban Noise, Feb. 29, 2016
9 Annoying Things that Ruin Community Meetings, Feb. 18, 2016
9 Annoying Things You Do in Cabs, Oct. 28, 2015
Newest Odd Couple: Real Estate Developers & Urban Farmers, Oct. 6, 2015
Why You're Free to BYOB in Philly, But in Boston It's Complicated, 3/17/15
9 Super-Annoying Things You Do at Restaurants, 3/4/2015 (reposted at Business Insider)
Why Restaurant Week Won't Die, Despite the Haters, 8/17/2012
The Long Road to Reviving Boston's Public Market, 12/1/2011

​More clips at CityLab.com
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Salem Without its Masks, Sept. 2, 2012
Family-friendly pubs in Boston, Mar. 11, 2012
State’s video game industry gets boost, Sept. 27, 2011
Living the Dream. Sort of., Aug. 24, 2011
Pike air rights plans in the works, July 27, 2011
Food trucks in Boston get off to a rocky start, Mar. 19, 2011
E. Boston immigration hub to be demolished, Jan. 3, 2011
Apartment boom reaches East Boston, Nov. 10, 2010
Off-season puts Ireland on a different footing
, Dec. 10, 2010
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The power of domestic adoption, Nov. 25, 2012
Nantucket Lightship will open for tours, May 27, 2012
Rides Not Revenge, Oct. 2, 2011
The Odd Couple, Oct. 17, 2010

"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."
—E.L. Doctorow

More work:

Farm
Princeton Trains Clergy to Farm, TakePart.com (
More at TakePart.com)
Berry Pickers Demand More Than $8 a Day, TakePart.com
These MLB Teams Have Stadium-Grown Greens, CScienceMonitor.com

Could D.C. Become America's Urban Farming Capital? TakePart.com
What Does it Mean for Food to be Local? TakePart.com

Food
Pop Star: Jeff Martin of Pipsnacks, Bentley Magazine, Summer 2015
How to Cook and Eat Like the Adult You Are, Deadspin/Lifehacker, Sept. 2014
Wicked Local, FoodThinkers by Breville, December 2013
Northern Ausspitality, FoodThinkers by Breville, July 2013
Rage Against the Coffee Machine, Boston Phoenix, Oct. 19, 2012
Travel
Green Guide to Boston, Matador Travel, 2008
Ten Lessons Learned on the Safari From Hell, Matador Travel, 2008
How to Make an Audio Tour, Matador Travel, 2007
Business/Real Estate
Look Out World: Here Comes Suffolk, Suffolk Business, Fall 2011
Building Law-Abiding Businesses, Suffolk Business, Fall 2011
Blogging
Thrive Market food blogs, 2015-2016
Profiles
The Drive to Succeed, Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall Chronicle, Oct. 2016
Principal Chisholm: 'What CM's All About', Catholic Memorial Alumni Magazine, 2015
A Knight Blitz, Catholic Memorial Alumni Magazine, 2013
Religion / Spirituality
Seeds of Delight: A Spirituality of Gardening, Creative Transformation Journal, Winter/Spring 2011
Confronting the Powers: Interview with Walter & June Wink, Sojourners Magazine, December 2010
Idaho’s Impact, Christianity Today, May 2010
Contributing blogger, Sojourners’ “God’s Politics” blog, 2009-2011
Video / Audio Scriptwriting
German Texans: Land, Freedom, Community, Texas Historical Commission, 2017
The Chisholm Trail: Exploring the Folklore & Legacy, THC, 2017
Edsel and Eleanor Ford House iTouch Tour App, Audissey Media, 2010
Radio Interviews
The future of urban farmer's markets, WCBS-San Francisco, Sept. 2017
Are Farmers Markets Becoming a Tough Seller for Growers? Indiana Public Media, Aug. 28, 2015

Writing
Take Your Writing Away, Writer's Digest, May-June 2015
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