Kara Haupt

Jan 5, 2025 | carly.substack.com | Carly Ayres |Kate Bingaman-Burt |Wendy MacNaughton |Kara Haupt

I’m a sucker for a fresh start. Not in a “new year, new me” way, but in the messy, iterative way of trying to gradually improve. Like a new pair of shoes or a blank page—a new year is full of potential. You could argue it’s just an arbitrary mile marker, a futile attempt to wrangle time into submission, but it stands as a feat of human ingenuity that we’re able to do so at all—using a system of leap years like this one—to within about 27 seconds alignment with the solar year.

Jul 24, 2023 | karahaupt.substack.com | Kara Haupt

From June through mid-November we get vegetables, eggs, and chicken thighs from 607 CSA, a multi-farm community-supported agriculture group in the Catskill mountains of New York. Every other weekwe also get a box of fruit and a cheese. Before the CSA we would make a meal plan and grocery shop online. We would choose recipes from bookmarks based on whims, and were therefore often cooking out-of-season meals.

Jul 10, 2023 | karahaupt.substack.com | Kara Haupt

Jun 12, 2023 | karahaupt.substack.com | Kara Haupt