Monthly Archives: October 2008

Mobile Botanical Gardens Fall Plant Sale

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 13, 2008
WHAT: Mobile Botanical Gardens Fall Plant Sale WHEN: Thursday, October 16, 4-8pm; Friday and Saturday, October 17-18, 9am-4pm; Sunday, October 19, 11am-4pm WHERE: Mobile Botanical Gardens, 5151 Museum Drive, Mobile AL COST: $25 for the opening night party and sale on Thursday; all subsequent days are free ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Gardeners of all sorts – including [...]
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New York Times Magazine: Food Fight

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 13, 2008
This week’s entire “New York Times Magazine”:http://www.nytimes.com/pages/magazine/index.html is devoted to food issues, and includes a “long feature article from Michael Pollan”:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html?ref=magazine on “what the next president can and should do to remake the way we grow and eat our food.”
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Local Food Production Initiative Meeting on October 20

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 13, 2008
WHAT: Local Food Production Initiative public meeting WHEN: Monday, October 20 at 6:30pm WHERE: the Nix Center, 1 Bayou Drive in Fairhope TOPIC: Community supported agriculture farms, or CSAs. Phil Strinste, owner of the Bee Natural Farm in Fairhope, will discuss his experience in operating the CSA, and Patty Hermecz, owner of The Cottage Garden [...]
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ELC Challenge, Day 12: Local Eating, Southern Style

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 12, 2008
Muffins with local blackberry jelly were my breakfast and lunch. Dinner was shrimp and oyster po’boys on homemade bread with local tomatoes, fried okra, baked sweet potato chips, and Abita beer. Aaaaah. In the garden, I’ve FINALLY got some beet sprouts. The arugula is doing well and I’ll be able to start trimming leaves to [...]
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ELC Day 11: Market Day

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 11, 2008
Head early to the farmers market. At just after 8am, the crowd is already there, but you still have the leisure to stroll about and make selections. My neighbor wasn’t so lucky. She got there later and said after one pass she came back to buy squash that were already gone. Available: corn, cucumbers, eggs, [...]
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ELC Day 10: Lessons Learned – Carry Cash, and Don’t Forget the Cooler

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 10, 2008
We returned from our visit to my parents’ late Wednesday, so my eat local challenge started in earnest yesterday. A rather dismal start it was. I had some apples left from Indiana, and had one for my breakfast. Lunch was homemade bread. Jimmy Lowe’s was out of goat’s milk, so the only thing I picked [...]
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Things to Look for in October from Bill Finch

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 10, 2008
Including advice on how to battle that last batch of caterpillars (try garlic spray).
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ELC Day 6: Festival Food

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 6, 2008
Today we took my daughter to the “West Side Nut Club Fall Festival”:http://www.nutclub.org/. For kids, the main attraction is the carnival rides (including my daughter’s new favorite, the State Fair Slide); adults come for the four-block long array of food booths, said to be the “second largest street festival”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Nut_Club_Fall_Festival in the United States. The menus [...]
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Eat Local Challenge, Day 5

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 5, 2008
Breakfast was all-local (except for a small amount of butter): fried egg on toast and an apple. Dinner included more butternut squash and a local tomato. Chris reported back to me on the produce at Saturday’s market: red and yellow tomatoes, sweet potatoes, beans, wax beans, peppers, eggplant, pumpkin, greens (likely collards), and seafood. Browsing [...]
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Eat Local Challenge, Day 4

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 4, 2008
All I was able to manage today was some more locally made bread. I had intended to put some local organic berry jam on it, but when I cracked open the jar there was mold on top. So much for that. It’s hard to lose even a little when you don’t have that many options [...]
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