Posts Tagged ‘food’

Blessings of Bounty

I’ve talked before about getting food from a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). Here is some of our seasonal bounty, along with fresh baked rosemary potato bread. Shortly after we baked the bread, we spread some of our homemade butter over two (or three) steaming slices.
One of my favorite parts about getting food from a CSA [...]

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Farmer’s Market Morning

Saturday morning is one of my favorite times of the week. Not because we sleep in extra late, or even because we have a special breakfast now and then. No, my favorite part of Saturday is always the Farmer’s Market Frenzy.
Rob and I have several farmer’s markets that we can go to around here. Heck, [...]

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Education, not disappointment

 
Rob and I continued our path of forming relationships with farmers last night through a 3-hour dinner with our bison farmers from the farmer’s market, Kathy and Ken Lindner.  There is a deep wisdom, accompanied by comfortable kindness, in this couple.  They make you feel at ease, and within moments of talking with them you are assured [...]

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Getting Creative

We are currently swimming in zucchini from our CSA. It’s to be expected; after all, when the point in summer arrives that zucchini is thriving, it’s also taking over the garden (or, in this case, the farm). And zucchini is surprisingly versitile in its uses: fried with garlic, chopped up into soup, put into a [...]

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Garden Party

Here are the long awaited pictures of our garden, planted on our anniversary.  My how it’s grown! No, the lettuce has not mutated into mini-trees; we’re letting two of the lettuce plants go to seed so we can use the seeds for next season. I couldn’t believe that lettuce could grow so tall! When it [...]

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Bison Business

A quick post, as I’m away from home this afternoon…
I talked a bit in a previous post about our bison lady from the Santa Monica Farmer’s Market…the more I learn about this couple, the more I am impressed with their philosophy. It’s really right up the alley with our thoughts on sustainability, responsibility, building community, [...]

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Working Toward Community

 One of the joys of this past week was that we were able to host many different friends in our home. We cleaned our home, making sure it was a welcoming space. We made some homemade butter, baked bread, and made ice cream. We prepared meals from our CSA and farmer’s market produce, eggs, and [...]

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Sugar Rush

So the other day my husband and I were once again purchasing sugar from the store. We tend to go with a variety that claims to be vegan, but that’s not why we buy it. Rather, we buy it because it is one of the only bags of sugar that assures us of both organic [...]

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Walking the Talk…As Well As We Can

I’ve gotten a few questions about the status of some of the things I’ve posted about, so here’s a quick update:
The Garden: The garden is doing great! We’ve been harvesting lettuce for our own salads and really loving it. We’ve let a couple of stalks bolt so they can go to seed–hopefully we’ll be able [...]

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Why We Choose Local

For the past 3 months, our household has been a proud supporter of a local farm, Tierra Miguel, as one of the main sources of our fruits and vegetables. Getting our box every other Wednesday always gives us a feeling of excitement and anticipation–and, every once in a while, adventurousness (“What in the world do we [...]

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