Food
- 100 Mile Diet
- ChewsWise by Samuel Fromartz
- Civil Eats
- Eat Local Challenge Blog
- Eat Well Guide
- Eating Alabama
- Edible Nation
- Food Politics by Marion Nestle
- FoodRoutes
- Grist on Food
- Local Harvest
- Locavore Nation
- Michael Pollan
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch
- National Center for Home Food Preservation
- Organic Consumer Association
- Pick Your Own (Mobile Area)
- Politics of the Plate by Barry Estabrook
- Slow Food Blog
- Slow Food USA
- Sustainable Table
- Sustainable Table Blog
- The Ethicurean
- U.S. Food Policy Blog
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: March 2009
10 Ways to Go Green and Save Green
I always like this kind of green tips list. This one is from “The WorldWatch Institute”:http://www.worldwatch.org/resources/go_green_save_green, and includes the by-now familiar mantra “eat local food.”
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Recipes for Health Series
If you haven’t seen it before, you might want to check out the “Recipes for Health”:http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/series/recipes_for_health/index.html series from the ??New York Times??. Here’s their description: bq. Recipes for Health offers recipes with an eye towards empowering you to cook healthy meals every day. Produce, seasonal and locally grown when possible, and a well-stocked pantry are [...]
In My Kitchen Garden: Blueberries
The latest additions to our kitchen garden, after visiting the plant sale, are a half dozen blueberry bushes which we’ve planted along our front walk. They’re flowering right now and I love watching the bumblebees visiting the flowers. I was thinking that despite my plans to scale back, we still have a lot going on [...]
Cheap Eats
In the spirit of the times, if not exactly in the spirit of local food, at “Culinate”:http://www.culinate.com/articles/sift/cheap_eats_blogged there’s a link to this list of “Top 100 Blogs for the Frugal Gourmet”:http://www.culinaryschoolguide.org/blog/2009/top-100-blogs-for-the-frugal-gourmet/. Of note, seven items in the “Healthy and Green” section, and a blog I had previously flagged for mention here, “30 Bucks a Week”:http://thirtyaweek.wordpress.com/, [...]
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Raised-bed gardening: Advantages over planting directly in the ground
At Culinate, an article about “Raised-bed gardening: Advantages over planting directly in the ground”:http://www.culinate.com/mix/dinner_guest/raised_bed_gardening. While I have in the past created new raised beds by digging up the surrounding earth, which then became pathways between the beds, it’s easier, though significantly more expensive, to haul in materials. Also from my archive of tagged posts, two [...]
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A Slow Food Reading List
I always intend to recommend more books, and at the Slow Food USA Blog there’s a post on “What [books] inspired you to get involved in sustainable food? What inspires you still?”:http://www.slowfoodusa.org/index.php/slow_food/blog_post/a_slow_food_reading_list/#When:18:31:05Z
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Climate and Energy Basics
For those who are interested, NY Times blog DotEarth gives a run-down of “Climate and Energy Basics”:http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/back-to-some-basics/ (things pretty much everyone can agree on).
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Don’t Forget to Check Local Harvest
With the growing awareness of sites like Local Harvest, more farmers are taking advantage of the chance to supply listings. Here’s the current “results within a 100-mile radius of Mobile”:http://www.localharvest.org/inarea.jsp?lat=30.671284&lon=-88.10299&ty=-1&rad=100&zip=36606.
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Grass Fed Beef at Hastings Farm
Now is the time to order your “grass fed beef from Hastings Farm”:http://www.localharvest.org/farms/M16893 in Baldwin County. You need a freezer or several friends to split the approximately 90 pounds you’ll get from a quarter, at a cost of $540.
How to Begin Eating Locally