Photography by Meech Boakye

Issue No. 6: Food, Nutrition, and Access in Our Communities
Photography - Meech Boakye

Meech Boakye explores practices of gardening, foraging, and preparing food both as a form of communal care and as a medium to question the ordinary.

Ayocote Morado beans

cooking in a broth of red onions, garlic, bay leaves, rosemary and one dried guajillo chili.

Homemade ricotta on a beet pesto babka loaf sitting beside some farmer’s market grape tomatoes, and a jammy egg.

Radicchio and sweet potato salad with a side of fluffy pitas, fig jam, goat cheese and chopped pistachios.

Onion and garlic scraps alongside carrots, celery, and a couple of bay leaves about to be veggie broth.

Spirulina and turmeric sourdough discard crackers.

Dried herb sourdough discard crackers topped with fresh sage, parsley, oregano, zinnias, pansies, nasturtium, and chamomile leaves from the garden.