My tax dollars at work. It didn’t get much attention in Kansas, but controversial pharma-food producer Ventria got a nice loan from me and my fellow taxpayers. Now they’re talking an over-the-counter product instead of saving third-world children. What a surprise! (The biggest report in the Wichita Eagle, mere mentions in KC Star, Lawrence J-W, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'local food'
Roundup: Pharma-food; local growers, local harvest
July 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Food in the news, Roundup, local food
Tags:genetically modified organisms·growers·local food·sweet corn
Freezing cherries is as easy as pie
July 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Food preparation, local food
It’s been a bountiful year for sour cherries hereabouts, and I couldn’t help but notice that my neighbor’s cherry tree was still bursting with them despite being picked at by me, another neighbor, the owner neighbors and countless birds. So I picked some more—almost 2 pounds—after the tree owners said to pick as many as [...]
Tags:cherries·food preservation·freezing
On learning the joys of food preservation
June 30th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Food preparation, local food
I’ve been reading Jennifer McMullen’s blog, “Rolling in the Dough,” for a while, and although Jennifer calls herself Baklava Queen (maybe you’ve seen her comments here), she’s also a food preservation and local food queen. Reading her blog has inspired me to try a little food preservation myself.
Food preservation doesn’t come naturally to me. Leftovers, [...]
Tags:canning·food preservation·freezing·greens
Roundup: Beyond tainted tomatoes and floods
June 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Food in the news, Roundup, local food
Finally, here’s a roundup of some food news in the area, aside from the daily reports of tomato-borne salmonella and rising food cost forecasts due to the Iowa floods.
Going against the grain. Gordon D. Fiedler Jr. over in Salina snags a bushel of wheat in this funny-serious take on eating locally. (Salina Journal)
Pizza cone [...]
Tags:food safety·National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility·wheat
Cherry pie is a group effort, and worth it
June 26th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Food selection, local food
When your busy neighbor’s cherry tree is flush with the brilliant sour fruits, the best solution is to pick them (with permission, of course) and share in the bounty. That’s what I did the other evening, and I’m glad I did.
I was eager to get at those cherries, because I’ve lost out in the past [...]
Return of the raspberries a joy to behold
June 25th, 2008 · 5 Comments · local food
There. Yes, there at the Rolling Prairie pickup site were raspberries. Beautiful, succulent, just-picked local early-summer raspberries. Oh, how I missed them last year!
A few got a bit squished between the pickup site (the Community Mercantile) and home. I was forced to eat half of them right away. The sacrifice! I sigh with pleasure at [...]
Tags:raspberries