Kansans have raised turkeys for a long time, says the K-State Research & Extension News. If you act now, you can get one of those birds for your Thanksgiving feast. Among producers within shouting distance of Lawrence are:
Clark Family Farm. They were taking orders on Saturday at the Lawrence Farmers Market for fresh pastured turkeys, [...]
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In case you missed it, the Douglas County Commission indeed decided to create a food policy council as suggested by Commissioner Nancy Thellman. (Lawrence Journal-World). Council members are expected to be appointed soon.
In the meantime, several likely prospects attended the Oct. 10-13 Community Food Security Coalition’s annual conference in Des Moines. They were Scott Allegrucci [...]
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Since I don’t have time to do any meaningful post, I thought I’d at least put up a few photos to keep you abreast of what’s in season here in Northeast Kansas. (This making-a-living thing is so time-consuming!) Besides what you see below, you also will find apples and pears and melons (still!).
Hope you’ve had [...]
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Did you see the local-food item in the Journal-World yesterday? The story buried the news peg (as we who used to be in the news biz would call it), which is that county Commissioner Nancy Thellman (at right) is planning to seek establishment of a food commission or advisory board to promote the local food [...]
Tags:local food·public policy
The Community Mercantile’s Eat Local Lawrence Challenge is entering its second week. The challenge, which started Aug. 16 runs through Aug. 29 as the Merc works to get more of us on the eat-local bandwagon.
If you’re still wondering why the fuss over your food source, you might want to check out the current cover story [...]
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I recently received a windfall of hard green pears from Angela after a branch broke from her tree, thereby rushing the pear harvest. As perhaps you can tell from the photo, the pears were small, the round bottom portion about the size of a handball, and they weren’t yet ripe.
I let the pears sit on [...]
