Monthly Archives: November 2007

Local Food for Non-Humans

By Ang Jordan | Published: November 22, 2007
In “Let Them Eat Leaves”:http://www.npr.org/blogs/talkingplants/2007/11/let_them_eat_leaves_1.html on her Talking Plants blog, NPR’s Ketzel Levine discusses the importance of gardening with native plants so that insects, birds, and other animals have the food they need. Levine and commenters provide plenty of useful resources. We have added a lot of plants to our yard in the past year, [...]
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Press-Register: Bananas and Satsumas

By Ang Jordan | Published: November 16, 2007
In this week’s Press-Register, Bill Finch writes about the last harvest, the first frost, and harvesting your bananas (if you’re lucky) and satsumas. When we moved here last year my husband was so impressed to learn that fruiting bananas and citrus would grow in our climate that he insisted on adding them to our garden. [...]
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Michael Pollan on the Farm Bill

By Ang Jordan | Published: November 15, 2007
Food writer Michael Pollan weighs in on the Farm Bill in “Weed It and Reap”:http://www.michaelpollan.com/article.php?id=89, published in the November 4th New York Times. If you’re unfamiliar with Pollan, whose most recent book ??The Omnivore’s Dilemma?? (2006) was a multiple-award winner, his many excellent “essays are archived on his web site”:http://www.michaelpollan.com/write.php.
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Fish: What You Need to Know

By Ang Jordan | Published: November 15, 2007
Living on the Gulf Coast, we’re fortunate to have access to fresh seafood. But sustainable seafood is another matter. For example, “grouper”:http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/SeafoodWatch/web/sfw_factsheet.aspx?gid=40, which is ubiquitous in area restaurants as the “catch of the day” is listed in the “Avoid” category by the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch guide. According to their criteria, it is overfished [...]
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Fall Farmers’ Markets End This Week

By Ang Jordan | Published: November 14, 2007
November 15th and 17th mark the close of the fall season for the Market at the Park and Market on the Square, respectively. The number of vendors has dwindled, but you can still find people selling pecans, sweet potatoes, squash, and a few other vegetables, fish, honey, baked goods, and a selection of other items. [...]
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Pecan Season

By Ang Jordan | Published: November 13, 2007
Local pecans are available, and I’ve been working on shelling the bag of Grand Bay nuts I bought last weekend at the downtown farmers’ market. According to this “AP news story”:http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gtAAOBxuk5nzXmj7iGmcFfQds0oQD8SMSFR00, this year’s dry weather in the southeast has helped the pecan crop considerably. Slow Food USA lists the “American Native Pecan”:http://www.slowfoodusa.org/ark/american_native_pecan.html as “not explicitly [...]
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A Message from the Editor

By Ang Jordan | Published: November 12, 2007
When we moved our family to Mobile in mid-2006, we had no friends or relatives in the city, and no contacts other than professional ones. Like anyone in this situation, we had to discover ‘how to live’ on our own, one of the basics being where to shop for food. We like to cook, and [...]
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