What Are You Doing For Thanksgiving?: Tara Whitsitt
Tara Whitsitt Tara Whitsitt Tara Whitsitt is an artist, food activist, and fermentation educator who just completed a two-year project called Fermentation on Wheels. During that time she travelled across the United States in a converted school bus and taught free food and fermentation workshops to communities of all ages and socioeconomic levels. In between going to big cities, Whitsitt worked on farms so she could bring freshly harvested produce to her workshops. Popular Science talked with her about her Thanksgiving plans for this year. What are you eating and/or fermenting for Thanksgiving? This will be my first Thanksgiving back home in Eugene, Oregon in two years, so I’m pretty excited. I spend most of my time living in intentional communities, and we make really big Thanksgiving meals with all locally-sourced ingredients. I bring the...