The story of "stone soup" exists all over the world. In my favorite variation, a hungry traveler appears in a village with nothing but an empty cooking pot, a spoon, and his appetite. When the suspicious villagers will not show him any hospitality, he sets up his cooking pot in the village square and begins to boil water with a simple stone in it. As the curious townsfolk pass by and ask him what he is doing, he stirs the pot and tells them that he is making stone soup. Further, he explains that at the end of the day when the soup is ready, everyone will be welcome to come and share it with him. Eventually, one person ventures that the soup might taste better with a few onions. Soon the villagers are each bringing a couple of carrots, a potato, a little salt, whatever they have on hand to add to the stone soup. At the end of the day, the whole town shares a delicious pot of soup (minus the stone, of course), and they have also learned a valuable lesson about the joys of shari...
Good morning everyone! In spite of the rain (which we really need, of course), we had record attendance at the pantry on Saturday. The distribution of our Thanksgiving dinner supplies began, we expect that it will continue to be busy throughout the month. This is also the time of year that the farms begin to wind down, so that we transition into purchasing most of our produce. We are very blessed to have many donors who make this possible each year. Thank you to all of you! This week we will be starting another trial satellite pantry shelf, this time at the Groton Senior Center! We're very excited to see if this helps with the food needs that can sometimes be hidden with our seniors. Many thanks to our friend Sue, who volunteers both with us and at the Center, and who suggested the idea. And many thanks also to Nicole, the director of the Center, who arranged for this to happen. We'll be stocking and starting it up this Wednesday. The next thing that I want to sh...