Food
- 100 Mile Diet
- ChewsWise by Samuel Fromartz
- Civil Eats
- Eat Local Challenge Blog
- Eat Well Guide
- Eating Alabama
- Edible Nation
- Food Politics by Marion Nestle
- FoodRoutes
- Grist on Food
- Local Harvest
- Locavore Nation
- Michael Pollan
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch
- National Center for Home Food Preservation
- Organic Consumer Association
- Pick Your Own (Mobile Area)
- Politics of the Plate by Barry Estabrook
- Slow Food Blog
- Slow Food USA
- Sustainable Table
- Sustainable Table Blog
- The Ethicurean
- U.S. Food Policy Blog
For Gardeners & Growers
- Alabama Cooperative Extension System
- Alabama Farmers Market Authority
- Alabama Sustainable Agriculture Network
- American Farmland Trust
- Deep South Fruit & Vegetable Growers Association
- Kitchen Gardeners International
- Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
- Mobile Botanical Gardens
- National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
The Environment
Monthly Archives: December 2007
10 Ways to Eat Well
From Sierra Magazine. “10 Ways to Eat Well”:http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200611/tenways.asp
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Word of the Year: “locavore”
Old news by now, but the Oxford American Dictionary named “locavore” their word of the year. This brief from the NYT blog “The Lede”:http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/oxfords-word-of-the-year-and-runners-up/?ex=1195794000&en=9236b1b329172747&ei=5070&emc=eta1
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Sustainability Survey Results
“The Splendid Table”:http://splendidtable.publicradio.org/ has posted the results of their survey on “Preferences for Making Sustainable Food Choices”:http://splendidtable.publicradio.org/about/sustainability_results.shtml. Over 15,000 people completed the survey, the first of its kind.
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Fire Ants in the Compost
As a midwestern gardener, I never had to face many of the challenges intrinsic to deep south gardening, including the problem of fire ants. In our yard they seem to favor sheltered spots, e.g. near paving, tree roots, and in raised beds or other structures, such as our compost bin. Since I use organic methods [...]
Food Less Traveled
From “Orion”:http://www.orionmagazine.org/, an article about Your Backyard Farmer, an Oregon business that will grow your food for you in your own back yard. “http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/492″:http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/492
Deep South Fruit and Vegetable Growers Conference, Day 2
Today I attended a few sessions from the “Organic Production” track. I actually was interested in the ones on organic certification, but I skipped those because it’s not exactly immediately relevant to my efforts as a home gardener. As most people already know, there is a lot of controversy around organic standards (many feel that [...]
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Deep South Fruit and Vegetable Growers Conference, Day 1
After talking with Diane Claughton, coordinator of the Slow Food Gulf Coast chapter and owner of the Ocean Springs Fresh Market, I decided to attend the Deep South Fruit and Vegetable Growers Conference on her suggestion. If nothing else, I figured it would educate me on local issues and interests, and give me a chance [...]
Lettuce on the Table
Our fall lettuce is ready for cuttings now, and at this point I’m mostly just thinning out the growth in the planting. We use a mild-tasting leaf lettuce mix; I tried a mesclun blend last spring but it was too pungent for my palette. The heads are growing so rapidly though I’m afraid we may [...]
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