Food
- 100 Mile Diet
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- National Center for Home Food Preservation
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- Politics of the Plate by Barry Estabrook
- Slow Food Blog
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- Sustainable Table
- Sustainable Table Blog
- The Ethicurean
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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: August 2008
Archives are Fixed
A while back I had been tinkering with the category archives and ended up messing up the page content. I’ve finally gone back and fixed that now so the category archives actually function as they should: a list of titles (with links) in each category.
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Today is International Kitchen Garden Day
Today is “International Kitchen Garden Day”:http://www.kitchengardeners.org/2005/10/kitchen_garden.html. Admittedly, I had *hoped* to plan something, a meal perhaps if nothing more, but in the busy-ness of back-to-school I’ve dropped the ball. Instead I’ll be looking out at my yard and appreciating the fact that my newly sprouted beans *won’t* be inundated by the 8 – 15″ of [...]
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Bill Finch on Okra
If you love okra, you’ll love the “big feature on okra”:http://www.al.com/press-register/stories/index.ssf?/base/living/1219396565160450.xml&coll=3 in the ??Press-Register??’s Friday Garden & Home section. (Note: the online article does not include growing tips.) Read and make plans for next year’s crop.
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Local Food Production Initiative Meeting in Fairhope
WHAT: Local Food Production Initiative public meeting WHEN: Monday, August 18 at 6:30pm WHERE: the Nix Center, 1 Bayou Drive in Fairhope TOPIC: City Council Member Cecil Christenberry, owner of the Old Tyme Feed & Garden Supply store, will discuss “Planning for Your Fall Garden”. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: See “this archived post for more information on [...]
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Announcing the October 2008 Eat Local Challenge
Eat Local Challenge has announced its fourth annual event, the “October 2008 Eat Local Challenge”:http://www.eatlocalchallenge.com/2008/08/announcing-the.html. If you’re wondering what that entails, here’s the summary from their site: bq. The traditional Eat Local Challenge is a basic concept: commit to eating only locally grown foods for a period of thirty days. Declare “exceptions” that you will [...]
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Eating Alabama EP
I’m happy to see that the folks up north have extended their “Eating Alabama”:http://www.eatingalabama.org/ project for two more months, for a total of six. They were originally planning on April through July, but Andrew Grace writes: “We haven’t eaten enough food from our great state. We haven’t visited enough farms. We haven’t talked to enough [...]
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Amid Collapsing Fisheries and Factory-Farmed Salmon, How to Choose Sustainable Seafood
Via the Organic Consumers Association, a link to Grist’s Checkout Line blog, addressing a question on “sustainable fish choices”:http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/8/14/93128/6887?source=food. Lots of good links and guidelines, though as always there is no definitive answer to this very tricky question.
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Urban Gardening for the Rest of Us
From the Organic Consumers Association, a link to a short piece on Grist, “Solving the apartment dweller’s dilemma”:http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/8/6/24241/46914?source=daily: how to have a garden when you’re short on space. The answer is container gardening, which is what I always recommend to people just starting out, even people who have yards. You can have as few or [...]
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Press-Register: Bill Finch Celebrates his August Bounty