Monthly Archives: March 2008

Alabama Oyster Beds Decimated

By Ang Jordan | Published: March 9, 2008
If you’re like my husband and consider one of the major benefits of living on the Gulf Coast to be the oysters, you’ll be distressed by the report that “Alabama’s oyster reefs are just about dead.” Sunday’s ??Press-Register?? reports that the two-year drought conditions upstate have resulted in decreased freshwater from rivers flowing into Mobile [...]
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Planting Seeds for a Lifetime of Gardening

By Ang Jordan | Published: March 4, 2008
I make an effort to get my daughter, a toddler, involved in our garden. She has helped plant seeds, cultivate soil, pull weeds, and harvest the produce. She knows about our compost pile. She’s familiar with the animals that live in the garden: lizards, toads, worms, beetles, bees, butterflies, and moths. She’s learning how the [...]
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Culinate

By Ang Jordan | Published: March 3, 2008
A friend passed me a link to “Culinate”:http://www.culinate.com/, a web site that’s “an ongoing conversation about how to eat well.” The authors define their name as follows: bq. *cul·in·ate* (‘kələ-nāt), v. 1 to live better by eating better 2 to consider health, the environment and community when deciding what to eat 3 to integrate and [...]
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Sweet Home Farm

By Ang Jordan | Published: March 3, 2008
“Sweet Home Farm”:http://www.southerncheese.com/Pages/sweethome.html 27107 Schoen Rd Elberta AL 36530 251.986.5663 PRODUCTS A variety of natural farmstead raw cows’ milk cheeses. Other products (such as vegetables) are sold on a seasonal basis, and availability is limited. WHERE TO BUY Sweet Home Farm cheeses are sold only at the store on the farm, located in south-east Baldwin [...]
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