It’s here! The first Rolling Prairie Farmers Alliance delivery is here! Isn’t it gorgeous? The contents of my pickup (clockwise from top): green onions, rhubarb, spinach, salad mix (mesclun), baby bok choy and, in the middle, lemon balm. There were some tough decisions: spinach or lettuce? baby bok choy or chard or purple mizuna or […]
Entries from April 29th, 2008
Customers meet their food producers
April 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments · local food
The Community Mercantile had its “Meet, Eat & Greet” event on Saturday that lets customers say hello some of their local food producers. (Supposedly they do this once a month, although this is the first time I noticed, perhaps because I usually avoid shopping on Saturday mornings.) The lineup for April 26 was Jan’s Organic […]
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Roundup: Farms, hunger and rice
April 27th, 2008 · Comments Off on Roundup: Farms, hunger and rice · Food in the news, Roundup
Don’t mortgage the farm. A K-State economist sees high risk of farm crisis. (Boston Herald) Right to food. A UN official in Kansas City for a world food aid conference comments on food crises. (Kansas City Star.) Wal-Mart limits rice. Some Wal-Mart stores are limiting people’s rice purchases. (KC Star)
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Bison Nation offers new old tastes
April 25th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Books about food, local food
What’s your favorite local food? If you live in the Great Plains, it might be—or could have been—bison, aka buffalo. Bison is the iconic foodstuff that Gary Nabhan and Kelly Kindscher (and probably other collaborators if I understand correctly) have identified as the namesake of our regional foodshed, Bison Nation. Nabhan, noted conservation scientist, promotes […]
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A brief Earth Day greeting
April 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Environment
In honor of Earth Day, I direct you to Umbra’s handy and simple guide on what you can do to be kinder to the earth. To celebrate, I ate my lunch of local eggs and toast outside in the sun. And tonight, I’ll go hear Gary Nabhan talk about “The Geography of Food Endangerment.”
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Here’s one of a million meatball recipes
April 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments · local food, recipes
The recent funeral-induced collection of family gatherings included a dinner of spaghetti and meatballs at my Lawrence sister’s house. One sister brought salad, I brought meatballs and sauce, Lawrence sister boiled water (and she says she can’t cook) and heated the garlic bread her husband prepared, and distant sister brought Apples to Apples to play […]
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