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Category Archives: local crops
The Farmers Market May Be Closed, but the Growing Season Continues
Although the fall farmers market in downtown Mobile has come to its close, there are still local farmers with plenty of crops in the field. If you’re willing to drive and you have the time, you can go directly to the farm and find u-pick or prepicked produce. Here are two that are worth checking [...]
Salad for 30
I volunteered to make salad for this weekend’s MOB progressive dinner ride, and I wanted to make it with as many local ingredients as possible. There were 30 people attending the dinner, and it was the first time I’ve ever made salad for that big a crowd. I went shopping at the farmers market the [...]
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Fall is Citrus Season
One of the great things about Gulf Coast living is that the advent of cool weather means citrus season. We have a wonderful variety of locally grown citrus that can be enjoyed from now on into winter. There are satsumas (known in Japan as mikan), the small, loose-skinned mandarin oranges beloved by nearly every child. [...]
A Pick of Peppers
A bowl of jewel-toned sweet peppers that I picked this week at our CSA. I decided these needed to be added to the Wallpaper.
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Meet the Yardlong Bean
Another plant that thrives at the height of our Gulf coast summer is the tropical yardlong bean, also known as asparagus bean, Chinese long bean, and snake bean (among others). Though not botanically related to the common bean, they can be cut into pieces and eaten in a similar fashion. They are commonly used in [...]
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Sauteed Peppers, Onions, and Eggplant
This time of year peppers and eggplant are two of the few plants that keep on producing through the heat. One of my favorite treatments of them is to pan sauté them together with onions until they’re soft and carmelized. You can eat them straight up as a side dish, use them as a topping [...]
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Combining Two Loves: Cycling and Local Food
In last week’s gardening column, Bill Finch writes about foraging for fruit on his bicycle. Foraging for free, unclaimed, or unused fruit, is becoming more widely seen as a good way to eat local. See my previous post from January 2010.
Charlie’s U-Pik Spring Season – Including Strawberries
I happened to be checking out the pick-your-own (PYO) options and saw that Charlie’s, a popular PYO just over the state line in Lucedale, has a spring season this year. (They close and then reopen in June for their summer season.) They have a variety of cool-season vegetables like lettuce, leafy greens, cabbage-family crops, and [...]
Working Cows Milk Available at Virginia’s Health Foods in Mobile
For Mobilians who have not wanted to drive too far in search of Working Cows Dairy‘s Alabama-produced organic milk, you can now buy it at Virginia’s Health Foods on Airport Boulevard. It’s sold by the gallon and half gallon and is also available in chocolate. The milk is lightly pasteurized and not homogenized (you must [...]
Satsuma Picking