After much consideration, we’ve decided not to continue our on-line cheese store. The reason is simple: it costs too much for packaging, and we’re losing money. Consider: We haven’t been able to find styrofoam shipping boxes for less than $9 each. Plus there’s gel packs to keep it cold, labels, etc. We charge our customers [...]
Posts under ‘Local Food’
Farmer’s Market Vendor Dies Over the Weekend
(Photo courtesy of Zion Canyon Farmers Market) Michelle Bonner and Lisa Zumpft of the Zion Canyon Farmer’s Market write: Bradley Mienert (Desert Toad Garden) died this weekend in an accident while trimming trees in the Brookside area. Brad was a passionate gardener and arborist. The market will miss his great peppers and peas. I understand [...]
Watermelons in Virgin Tomorrow
Our friend Lee in Virgin reports: Jeff Brown will be setting up Saturdays from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. with his Coalpits melons at the farm stand next to the Post Office in Virgin. Jeff grows “dry-farm” melons, which use far less water than conventionally-grown watermelons. For more information, click here.
Cedar City Farmer’s Market
If you haven’t done so yet, please come check out the Downtown Cedar City Farmer’s Market, held Wednesdays from 4-7 pm in the parking lot behind The Grind, Braun Books, and the Pastry Pub. This week found the market offering a wide selection of vegetables (including locally-grown tomatoes), peaches, cantaloupes, figs, pecans, local honey, fresh [...]
A Humane-ifesto
“I try to avoid factory farmed dairy and eggs, if possible. I do this to boycott large commercial diary and eggs producers who really don’t treat their animals in a humane manner. I can produce all our own dairy products here, so there is no reason for me to have to buy from, and support, [...]
Five Steps to Eating Local
On EatLocalChallenge.org, Jennifer Maiser offers tips for those getting interested in local food: five steps to eating local. They are: 1. Frequent your farmers market. 2. Choose five foods that you can source locally. 3. Sign up for a CSA. 4. Pickle, can, freeze or dehydrate! 5. Can’t find locally grown? Try locally produced. Read [...]
Half a Billion Eggs Recalled
The CNN headline says, “Feed likely source of salmonella in eggs, federal officials say.” This as the egg recall expands to 550 million eggs from two mega-egg-producers in Iowa, with tainted eggs traced to 23 states and almost 1,500 cases of salmonella poisoning. Kind of makes you wonder what those mega-farmers feed their chickens. Sustainable [...]
Eat Local Food: Grow Sprouts
If you can’t plant a garden– or even if you can– you can still grow sprouts. Sprouts are easy to grow, are ready to eat in 3-5 days, taste great, and are very nutritious. Best of all, you can grow them in almost any glass jar– an old pasta sauce jar for example. Almost any [...]
Local Food Fallout
(In finger2006 photo.) An 11th generation NH farm, founded in 1632, gets ready to sell, and lists the local food movement as one of the reasons. The reason: as more people grow and sell local vegetables, there’s more competition for market space. Apparently NH is hitting the saturation point where supply has caught up with [...]
Eat Local Food: Plant a Garden
It’s easy to plant a garden. All you need is a few square feet of space and some decent soil. Even on a balcony you can use a planter box and buy soil at almost any store. It’s already August, and residents of colder climes may be thinking that the first frost is only weeks [...]
