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Category Archives: reflections
Earth Day Update
“Earth Day was six months ago on April 22″:http://gulfcoastlocalfood.org/2008/04/earth-day-top-seven-actions.html. I made a note to myself at the time to revisit my Earth Day resolutions six months later, so here we are. * **Be politically active on environmental issues: C.** I’ve certainly done some things, and have signed a lot of petitions. However, I haven’t written [...]
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Local Food Production Initiative Meeting on October 20
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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Eat Local Challenge, Day 4
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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Ask yourself why you garden: Urban farming isn’t for the merely romantic
Over at Culinate, Harriet Fasenfest writes: “Ask yourself why you garden. Urban farming isn’t for the merely romantic.”:http://www.culinate.com/mix/dinner_guest/ask_yourself_why_you_garden She reminds us of the hard work and casual ridicule that comes our way.
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Hiatus
Hiatus is defined as “a pause or gap in a sequence, series, or process.” A pause is certainly what I intended, but a month-long lapse hardly qualifies. My apologies to anyone out there wondering what happened to this blog. Since June 22, the date of “my last post”:http://gulfcoastlocalfood.org/2008/06/what-does-grassfed-beef-taste.html, we’ve had multiple visitors and have taken [...]
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What Does Grass-Fed Beef Taste Like?
This week at the farmers market someone asked me what grass-fed beef tastes like. I’ve had it before from vendors at the farmers market in Bloomington, but frankly it’s been a few years so I’m not sure I can accurately summarize the differences between grass and grain-fed. And beyond that, I don’t eat a lot [...]
Earth Day: Top Eight Actions
This year, Earth Day isn’t getting a lot of press. Elections and oil prices are sucking up all the media attention. And despite my environmentalism, my cynical side feels it’s a rather bankrupt observance, much like Mother’s Day, where we all pause to feel guilty, do a little reflection and penance, a few good deeds [...]
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Planting Seeds for a Lifetime of Gardening
I make an effort to get my daughter, a toddler, involved in our garden. She has helped plant seeds, cultivate soil, pull weeds, and harvest the produce. She knows about our compost pile. She’s familiar with the animals that live in the garden: lizards, toads, worms, beetles, bees, butterflies, and moths. She’s learning how the [...]
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Reflections on the Eat Local Challenge