Experimenting with another winter farmshare
After plenty of research and about a week of deliberation, I decided today to sign up for the Winter/Spring farm share from Enterprise Farms. Running from December through March, the Enterprise share does things a little differently than you’d expect. In addition to providing local (and obviously seasonal, or stored) farm goods, they have also partnered with organic farmers within what they refer to as the “Atlantic Foodshed”.
Reading: The Cost of Wasted Food- A timely and thoughtful article
via food.theatlantic.com Stumbled upon this article in The Atlantic Monthly's online food channel *just after* composing my post about composting. Can you believe that typical Americans waste around $600 of food per year? That's crazy!
Why waste your waste?
via www.earthmachine.com While planning my move over to Somerville (yay!), I started nosing around the city website to learn about parking permits, trash pick-up and all that sort of new neighborhood stuff. In small print, at the bottom of a Department of Public Works Environmental Services PDF, I came across this gem: Somerville offers a … Read more
My 100 miles
I understand that eating locally is more fundamentally meant to turn away from supporting the creation of industrial monocultures, such as big corn and bigger soy, or to conscientiously object to abhorrent living and slaughter conditions on factory farms and ranches and to resist the strawberry in February with a carbon footprint that traces a path to New Zealand. I can get behind those principles pretty easily.But am I going to feel a twinge of guilt for every pinch of delicate fleur-de-sel from Brittany? I am not.
Taking the long way: Pepper Jelly…so six weeks ago
It was September, and the local farm and farmer’s markets were exploding with late season produce, so once I got that canner boiling, I was determined to stock my pantry with summer in jars. And now here it is, 3 months later, and I’ve found something or other to put up just about every weekend since.
Oh, solo me-o: The dish I can’t stop eating
Carbonara. Well, carbonara-ish, minus the bacon…not that I don’t love a good hit of pork product whenever I can get it. When left to fend for myself on these brisk late-fall evenings, carbonara is the answer. Home alone for a couple of quiet hours, I want to kick back, relax and have a nice warm bowl of creamy, peppery noodles. And a glass of red wine. And an episode of Law and Order: SVU.
Thought for food: Ecologies of value
Heather Paxson is a student of how people infuse their lives with meaning, and the everyday ethical choices that come with that. She is a Radcliffe Fellow this year, writing a book on what she calls the “ecologies of value” in making American artisanal cheese. via news.harvard.edu I came across this interesting little article today … Read more
C’est moi qui l’ai fait: The hand-made’s tale
I’ve thought long and hard about it, and my theory around this behavior points to a deep craving for producing a tangible good, faites a main. At the end of a long week of conceptualizing, ideating and general arm-waving around various forms of digital ephemera, I long to face a mountain of apples that need peeling and coring, to push a hunk of lamb shoulder through a grinder and then form it into rounds, to have dough under my fingernails and flour in my hair. I long to MAKE.
The unbelievably awesome bounty of my Shared Harvest Winter CSA: Read below!
Wow, I couldn’t believe my eyes when I peeked into the two chock-full boxes I picked up at Busa Farms this rainy afternoon! The cost of the share- $240 for 3 pick-ups of about 38-40lbs of produce- is just about the best money I’ve ever spent on food. My fridge is stuffed to the gills, and I’ve created a dark and cool little “root cellar” in my back stairwell. I’m proud to be so well-stocked with beautiful and delicious local goods all winter long.
