Monthly Archives: January 2009

Results of the LocalHarvest Price Comparison Survey

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 24, 2009
LocalHarvest did a price comparison survey in the fall to begin collecting data on the cost of farmers market produce vs the same items bought at a commercial grocery. The study was flawed for a number of reasons, but you can “read the results here”:http://www.localharvest.org/newsletter/20090122/survey-says.html?r=nl. The average cost was anywhere from $.08 to $.22 lower [...]
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Idea Man

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 23, 2009
One thing that makes me really happy about the Obama presidency (and is at once a sad commentary on the Bush administration) is that people with ideas – scientists, academics, writers, and everyday folk – feel comfortable approaching the administration to share them. Only time will tell whether the administration will be receptive to those [...]
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List Roundup

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 22, 2009
Year’s end is always a favorite time for list making, and I’ve noted a few food-related ones that seemed worth drawing to your attention. “The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating”:http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/the-11-best-foods-you-arent-eating/?em from the New York Times’ Well blog. This one resided on the “Most E-mailed” list of Times articles for quite some time. Mostly fruits [...]
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How Have Your Plants Fared?

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 22, 2009
The freezing temperatures we’ve had lately have been the coldest we’ve seen (certainly the most extended cold snap) since we moved here in 2006. My winter vegetables have fared all right; the arugula and some lettuce have gotten frostbitten, but the arugula was on the decline anyway, since most of it had matured. The cabbage [...]
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What’s Ahead?

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 20, 2009
Today was inauguration day for President Obama, and my daughter and I celebrated by making cookies (truly a way to turn any occasion festive). We tried to crudely recreate the “Vote for Change” campaign logo, as we’d seen on “some cookies pictured online”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweetsbyzoe/3128476233/, and this was the result. Also, we ran out of powdered sugar [...]
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Local Food Production Initiative Meeting on January 19

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 11, 2009
WHAT: Local Food Production Initiative public meeting WHEN: Monday, January 19 at 6:30pm WHERE: Parlor of the Fairhope United Methodist Church Christian Life Center, in Fairhope TOPIC: Sustainable Agriculture and Gardening by Dr. Harvey Joanning, Professor Emeritus, Iowa State University. Dr. Joanning grew up on a farm in Iowa in which he and his family [...]
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A Manual for Farm Life

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 10, 2009
Rainy winter days like today are fine ones for curling up on the couch with a book, as my daughter and I did this afternoon (or, if you’re four and live where it’s 70° in January, they are fine days for putting on your rain jacket and boots and splashing around in puddles, as my [...]
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Winter Greens

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 10, 2009
Here’s a colander full of winter greens from our garden. There’s a small green cabbage, arugula, leaf lettuce, and a beet.
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