About Tabled
It is no mistake that when we first became friends in 2012, we began to call one another our Bread and Fish. It was our reminder that God provided exactly what we needed when we needed it. As we've gotten married and begun learning how to feed our families, care for our finances, and nurture our friendship, food has been both a mark and measure of our relationship.
Haley lives in Portland, OR with her husband and baby son. Lore lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and puppy. Together we dream of living in rambling old farmhouses in Maine. We try to feed our families healthy, whole, local, and in-season produce as much as possible. We are also one income families, and have tried to do this on a budget.
Tabled is a series of letters we've written to one another about the experience of feeding our families, managing finances, and maintaining friendship from far away. Thank you for joining us.
Lore Ferguson Wilbert
Nate and I met and married in three months in the spring of 2015. We moved cross-country twice within the first year of marriage, which is expensive both financially and physically. They say moving is one of the most stressful things you can do, and my body wears stress like last year's Easter dress: worn, tattered, and ready for a new one. I find when life feels a bit more settled, I function in a holistically more healthful way.
We have always tried to eat both in-season as well as locally (including by shopping at our local grocery store—even if it's not the hippest place in the city and they never have celeriac or jicama). In the summer, after an unforeseen 100k financial hit, we knew being on a budget was going to be important for many reasons. It isn't easy to shop locally, seasonally, and frugally, but we are trying to do our best.
Haley Kirkpatrick
Well hello there. I'm Haley, a Pacific Northwesterner both by birth and at heart. I love the short, dark, gloomy winter days; the long, warm, sunny summer days; and both the absence and abundance those seasons afford. My husband (a Texan by birth and a PNWer at heart) Scott and I live in Portland with our baby son, Hollis and our dog son, Poa. We married a little later, and have marveled more than a few times about how the financial frustrations that plagued our friends who married young didn't skip us just because we married in our thirties.
We love eating good, homemade, healthful, and delicious food. As we shop and cook and eat, we know we are creating our family's food culture. It is our hope that in eating seasonally, locally, and mindfully, we pass along those same values to our family. It is a struggle at times, and there are definitely nights we phone it in (meaning we order pizza or burritos), but we are all happier and healthier when the food is homemade and we get to enjoy it together.
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