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: April 2009
Can we afford to eat ethically?
At Salon, a journalist answers the question “When shopping for food, did I have to choose between my budget and my beliefs?”:http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/04/25/pinched_ethically/index.html It’s part of their ongoing series “Pinched,” about life during a recession.
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Horticulture Education Classes from the Cooperative Extension
Like me, you may have read the article in the April 10 edition of the Press-Register titled “Gardeners trading aesthetics for food,” which included information about a series of classes being offered by the Mobile County office of the Alabama Cooperative Extension. The article addressed the increased interest in home food production and edible landscaping [...]
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Earth Day 2009
See last year’s post for a still-worthy list of Earth Day actions. My top recommendation is still to contact your legislators (and editorial pages) to let them know about your support for environmentally-friendly policies. Unfortunately, I’ve found that dealing with cancer does limit my energy and ability to keep up with political action and personal [...]
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Mobile’s Market on the Square Opens Saturday, April 25
The spring & summer farmers market at Cathedral Square will open this weekend. The Market in the Park, at the Mobile Museum of Art, will not open until late May. WHERE & WHEN Market on the Square Cathedral Square in downtown Mobile Saturdays, 7:30am – 11:00am April 25 – July 25 PRODUCTS Seasonally available produce [...]
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In My Kitchen Garden: Blackberries – Make That Dewberries
See the comments for an explanation of the title. Today we harvested close to a pint of blackberries from the volunteer canes growing in our yard. As a friend recently commented in regards to her own yard, at least there’s an upside to not being vigilant about the weeds. These came from a patch that [...]
Cover Tender Plants
A freeze is predicted for the early morning hours Wednesday for areas north of I-10. You will want to cover tender plants, unless you know your microclimate very well! Temperatures in our yard are typically a bit warmer than predicted but I’m covering cold-sensitive things just in case.
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Climate Change Comes to Your Backyard
Via the OCA, “Climate Change Comes to Your Backyard”:http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/usda/climate-change-comes-to-your-backyard, an article about the forthcoming revision in the USDA’s plant hardiness zone maps. I wonder what if any changes there will be in our area?
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Michael Pollan on What’s Wrong With Environmentalism
The Organic Consumers Association reposted an “interview Pollan did with Yale’s Environment 360″:http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2031 in June 2008. It’s the same familiar Pollan, but still fascinating and inspiring stuff. For example, bq. The writer Wendell Berry was right a long time ago when he said the environmental crisis is a crisis of character. It’s really about how [...]
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At the Farmers Market