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 Table [...]
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Half a Billion Eggs Recalled
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 kind [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Main Street Cafe: Local Produce Makes the Difference
On our way through Hurricane, Utah one day, we stopped for lunch at the Main Street Cafe. Located at 138 S. Main Street, it’s a small place that looks like a bit like a diner from the street.
It’s not a diner. It’s a lovely sandwich shop with selections [...]
Gourmet Food Prepared In Your Home
Have a chef come to your home and create delicious, whole-foods meals that are free of the things you may be sensitive to. Brigitta will work with you to plan menus that are balanced as well as delicious. She does all the shopping, usually on the same day that the meals are cooked so [...]
Farmer’s Market Season Begins
The farmer’s markets are open! I love farmer’s markets. They give an opportunity for people with fresh, local foods to share those foods with others. And though I generally go to farmer’s markets to sell our cheese, I rarely come home empty-handed.
Saturday I drove down to Springdale, at the mouth of Zion National Park, [...]
Apricots at the Church Farm
The LDS (Mormon) Church has a system of farms that it uses to feed needy people., both inside and outside the Church. These farms have been purchased using contributions from church members, and are largely run using volunteer labor. Says Wiki:
Virtually every item you can think of is grown on Mormon welfare farms. [...]
Local CSAs in the News
“Connection to the Earth is something that every American used to enjoy but has lost. It feeds a person
on many levels to have a direct connection to the place where their food is grown.” –Marthe Levie of Peacefield Farm CSA.
Our friends at Red Acre Farm CSA made the paper this week with a wonderful [...]
Red Acre Farms CSA to offer a cheese share
Red Acre Farms, a community-supported agriculture vetnure, or CSA, offers shares in its produce, as well as locally-produced eggs and milk. They’re now adding a cheese share to their offerings. Share purchasers will get a half pound of Jackrabbit Ranch artisan cheese every week for 18 weeks.
We don’t know in advance what cheeses will be [...]
