Li Li, an assistant professor at UNR, holds black plastic utensils that can be problematic

Toxic Tools

Black plastic cooking utensils recently have garnered national attention for their potentially toxic characteristics. These tools are accessible, easy to find, and look good, but not all are created equal.

Dolores (Dee) Schafer-Whitten and Earstin Whitten, cofounders of Soulful Seeds, stand by their pepper and tomato plants

Cultivating Resiliency

Soulful Seeds nurtures more than crops. With a mission to foster connection and resilience through neighborhood gardens, Soulful Seeds has been providing healthy food to vulnerable populations in the Reno-Tahoe area since 2017. What began as a community garden at Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Reno evolved into a nonprofit organization in 2018. Today,…

Ciarra Melvin, owner of C's Mad Batter Cakery in Sparks, presents a sugar cookie that she decorated with royal icing, which allows her to create fine details like these flower petals

Cookie Craft

There’s something simply magical about sugar cookies, especially this time of year — whether you’re sitting at the counter rolling out the cooled, sweet dough, covering the shapes with iridescent sprinkles, or taking that first enticing bite.

Science & Comics

Science & Comics

Lauren Sankovitch is the embodiment of a modern Renaissance woman. Her career is as layered and fascinating as her geological studies as a graduate student in the Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. T

Seed Money

Seed Money

Although women comprise only about a third of the country’s agricultural producers, they represent the fastest growing demographic in agriculture, their numbers nearly tripling over the last three decades.