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It’s going to be easy to feed your interest in food and family farms this week if you’re in the Lawrence area.
Two very different activities are occurring on Thursday—a farm tour and a organic tasting and film series.
The farm tour
In the morning, the Kansas Rural Center is sponsoring a tour of five area farms that [...]

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It was a big day Saturday at the Lawrence (Kansas) Farmers Market (http://www.lawrencefarmersmarket.com/index.php). Of course, every Saturday in season is a big day at the market, barring forbidding thunderstorms and the like.
Still, this one was special because it offered the first (of what is to become annual) Tomato Tasting: The Good, the Big, and the [...]

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Two news items today illustrate that, when we speak up, we can affect what’s going on in the world. At least that’s the message I’m taking from these two items.

The first, a Zogby International poll, underscores previous polls indicating that, yes, Americans do want to know where their food comes from. Zogby reported:

Nearly three [...]

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Eating food from local sources underscores how many people it takes to put food on the table.

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I guess I’ve talked to excess about ratatouille here and ratatouille here and ratoutille here. Oh, and ratatouille here.
So I decided it’s time to post a ratatoutille recipe. Following is the one that I wrote for the Lawrence Farmers Market. Hope you enjoy it.
Ratatouille is a perfect dish for August in that it uses lots [...]

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Does anybody really like zucchini?
Seems as though most people (or at least those with gardens or CSA memberships) regard eating it as a duty, which is understandable given its proliferation and blandness. I can’t say I have the solution, but I have one link to offer. Rather than providing a compendium of recipes (who can [...]

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