Factory farms costly. Yea, we knew it, and now the Pew Charitable Trusts has quantified it, in case you missed the news stories. Amish auction. Missouri auction house moves Amish produce to local buyers. (KC Star) Specialty meat. A McPherson custom meat processor is profiled.(KSU Extension) They’re smokin’. The 10th annual Sertoma barbecue contest is [...]
Entries Tagged as 'local food'
5 ideas for using your mesclun
May 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Cooking tips, Farmers markets, Healthy eating, local food
This week’s Rolling Prairie Farmer’s Alliance distribution included a big bag of mesclun. Oh, it’s pretty stuff, all those little bright green leaves with touches of purple and red here and there. It’s grown here by the Wakarusa Valley Farm (which finally has a website; yea!). But you may wonder what to do with it. [...]
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Rolling Prairie opens produce season
April 29th, 2008 · 6 Comments · local food
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 [...]
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Customers meet their food producers
April 28th, 2008 · No 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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Bison Nation offers new old tastes
April 25th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Books, 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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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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