Winter 2024–2025

PUBLISHER'S NOTE 

What Matters Most

Hello, winter! Some of you are reading this online, and that is good. If you are, I invite you to get hold of a hard copy and to sit down with it for a spell.

Do you keep things around that inspire you like books with sticky notes, a journal, scribbles, or sketches about some dreamed-of project? Is there a box or binder of recipes from a relative or friend? We hope our magazine is in this good company.

Our content is not meant to appease an algorithm. As we prepare each issue for you, we march to the beat of a drum different from any other in our region (as part of the epic network of local food magazines Edible Communities). Creating an edition over many weeks is a conversation with friends old and new as we explore ideas and practices from different perspectives, places, traditions, partnerships, and visions of the future. By holding these printed pages, you join this conversation with writers, photographers, designers, and editors—and the local food heroes we write about—all of whom are neighbors that share your interests. Handwritten or printed media keep our information and behavior more personal, making us the subject, author, and designer of our lives.

This conversation is about being in our bodies, in the community, and always learning more about how interconnected we all are with everyone and everything around us. TikTok introduced me to a Mary Oliver poem—“When I Am Among the Trees”—that perfectly expresses this way of being. (Search for it immediately! Read it. I will wait.) But hey, we’re global citizens who can use all kinds of media for good.

Why? Because our individual and collective health depends on how we live in our food system. Period. Full stop. At Edible San Diego, we’ll keep exploring an ever more regenerative, resilient, equitable, and just relationship with each other and this world. Thank you to all our contributors, advertisers, partners, readers, and subscribers who made 2024 our best year ever.

Let’s keep helping each other nurture wellness for all this holiday season and always.

Katie Stokes
Publisher and Editor in Chief
Edible San Diego

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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Edible San Diego recognizes the Kumeyaay, Luiseño/Payómkawichum, Cahuilla, and Cupeño/Kuupangaxwichem people who have lived in relationship with the earth, flora, fauna, waters, and sky for thousands of years as the original stewards of this region. This publication commits to building greater awareness of and appreciation for the traditional ecological knowledge, wisdom, and experiences of San Diego County’s first peoples as an essential part of the health and vitality of our local food system.

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