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Monthly Archives: March 2008
Bring on the Bananas
In today’s Press-Register, Bill Finch launches his “Great Banana Growing Challenge”:http://www.al.com/press-register/stories/index.ssf?/base/living/1206090926295010.xml&coll=3 asking local readers to share their banana-growing tips and successes, and tantalizing us with a mention of the 350-400 bananas that he harvested in his own yard. We have a “Grand Nain” banana that we bought last spring at the Mobile Botanical Garden plant [...]
Strawberry Season
I had my first local strawberries (from Baldwin County) on March 1. I called B.J. Farms today and they said their u-pick would be open the first week in April. You can buy harvested berries there now.
PhD in Food Studies
OK, this is not exactly about local food, but it’s obliquely related. The anthropology department at Indiana University (one of my alma maters) is introducing a “PhD in Food Studies”:http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/6266.html, the first such program in the country. There was a nice article in the latest College of Arts and Sciences magazine, and Professor Stacie King [...]
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Labels: What Lies Beneath
This article is from 2004, so I’d like to see an updated version, but it’s a useful primer on the significance of product labeling (e.g. natural vs. organic, etc.). “Original article on The Green Guide”:http://www.thegreenguide.com/doc/105/labels.
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The Locavore Pledge: Tips on Eating Locally
Originally published for the Eat Local Challenge 2006, this entry contains some “helpful guidelines for eating locally”:http://www.lifebeginsat30.com/elc/2006/04/a_few_tips_for_.html – and if you can’t, what choices to make next.
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The Food Chain
The “Slow Food Blog”:http://www.slowfoodblog.org/?p=192 points to “The Food Chain”:http://www.metrofarm.com/mf_Food_Chain_Radio.php, bq. an audience-interactive newstalk radio program that airs live on Saturdays from 9am to 10am Pacific time. The Food Chain, which has been named the Ag/News Show of the Year by California’s legislature, is hosted by Michael Olson, author of the Ben Franklin Book of the [...]
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Eat Locally, Ease Climate Change Globally
From the ??Washington Post??, a farmer addresses the issue of fuel efficiency in tractor-trailers vs. the fuel expended in getting food and consumers to farmers markets. His conclusion: “buying local food is a sensible way to eat well, save fuel and reduce your carbon footprint”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030702520.html.
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Dandelion Dinner
From Culinate, a reminder that spring is the best time to harvest and eat what some consider a delicacy and some consider a weed: “dandelion greens”:http://www.culinate.com/articles/sift/dandelion_dinner. Do you like to eat dandelion greens?
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In My Kitchen Garden: Snow Peas
We’re enjoying a plentiful harvest of snow peas – but then again, if you plant snow peas you’re almost bound to enjoy a good crop. They have got to be the easiest vegetable I’ve ever grown; they don’t require much space (a trellis is handy), seem to have very few problems with disease or pests, [...]
Mobile Botanical Garden Spring Plant Sale