In Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins wrote, “The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent [...]

For the record, I originally wrote this in July 2014 when, at the age of 50, I decided to go back to school. At the time I was studying sustainable food systems at the University of Vermont and [...]