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 ranging from “Lox & Bagel” and [...]
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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 everything [...]
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. Oranges [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Senate Food Bill caters to Agribusiness
(Dieselboi photo .) In yet another power grab for corporations , the Senate will vote this week on the Food Safety Modernization Act , a bill that imposes traceability requirements, HAACP analysis procedures regulated and inspected by the Fed, RFID chips, and expensive registration fees on all farmers– including small family farms like mine. The [...]
A teenager eats locally in Minnesota
From EatLocalChallenge.com: Editor’s note: The highlight of my week was to receive an email from Nicole F., a 17-year old teenager from Plymouth, Minnesota. She took on a week of eating locally in March, and wrote about it on her blog, An Experiment in Eating Locally. I asked her to summarize her project here, and [...]
