Monthly Archives: April 2008

Rising Demand for Meat Takes Toll on Environment

By Ang Jordan | Published: April 16, 2008
There’s plenty in the media these days about rising food costs and the consequences of industrial agricultural production. From NPR’s Morning Edition comes this story, an “interview with professor Roz Naylor, director of the Program on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University”:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89676010. It nicely summarizes many of the issues. The conclusions? Eat less [...]
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The Great Sunflower Project

By Ang Jordan | Published: April 15, 2008
Via “EatLocalChallenge”:http://www.eatlocalchallenge.com/2008/04/the-great-sunfl.html, sign up for “The Great Sunflower Project”:http://www.GreatSunflower.org/, an effort to monitor the health of bee populations. They’ll send you free sunflower seeds to plant and then ask you to monitor the flowers for bees. Visit the web site for more information and to sign up. We’re in the unusual situation of having a [...]
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Eating Alabama

By Ang Jordan | Published: April 15, 2008
I’m happy to be able to point you to “Eating Alabama”:http://www.eatingalabama.org/, a blog chronicling the efforts of two families in the Tuscaloosa-Birmingham area to eat locally, as in within-the-state, during the months of April through July. They’ve already compiled a collection of interesting posts and some good resources. Check out their “map of small Alabama [...]
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50 Simple Things

By Ang Jordan | Published: April 15, 2008
Earth Day is coming up in a week (Tuesday the 22nd), so in addition to updating the blog with recent articles, I’ll be highlighting environmental issues related to local foods. With that in mind, I’d like to point out the newly reissued “50 Simple Things You Can Do To Save the Earth”:http://www.amazon.com/Simple-Things-You-Save-Earth/dp/1401322999/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208235905&sr=8-1. Environmentalists may remember [...]
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In My Kitchen Garden: Salad Greens

By Ang Jordan | Published: April 14, 2008
We’re harvesting salad greens from the garden, including young leaves of spicy arugula that give salads a pleasant kick (I love it with homemade creamy mustard vinaigrette). Something has been eating my chard and arugula – slugs perhaps, though I don’t think the damage looks quite right. Our potato plants are just about to flower, [...]
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Bill Finch on Sugar Snap Peas

By Ang Jordan | Published: April 11, 2008
In today’s Press-Register, read “Carpe Pisum”:http://www.al.com/press-register/stories/index.ssf?/base/living/1207905307297180.xml&coll=3&thispage=1 to find out everything there is to know about growing sugar snap peas. My “snow peas”:http://gulfcoastlocalfood.org/2008/03/in-my-kitchen-garden-snow-peas.html, alas, are done and in the composter. But they were wonderful while they lasted!
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Getting Back To It

By Ang Jordan | Published: April 1, 2008
I’ve been sidelined of late because my daughter and I have both had strep throat (and I have a lovely case of conjunctivitis on top of that). But it’s spring, it’s the heart of the gardening season, and market season will soon be beginning! I’ll be updating you on recent links of interest, as well [...]
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KidSafe Seafood

By Ang Jordan | Published: April 1, 2008
Via “Mothering Magazine”:http://www.mothering.com/articles/growing_child/food/fish-facts-for-families.html, “KidSafe Seafood”:http://www.kidsafeseafood.org/, an informational web site about kids and seafood consumption; they have a “handy chart”:http://www.kidsafeseafood.org/bestchoices_otherkindsoffish.php identifying key toxins found in a variety of commonly eaten fish and shellfish, and the number of servings children of different ages may safely eat each month. Farmed crawfish are listed as one of the approved [...]
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