This is cool. My neighbor, whose dog daily tries to devour my dog, will be featured tomorrow night (May 15, 2007) on the Sundance Channel’s “Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Eat.” The neighbor, Hilary Brown, owns and operates Local Burger, which dispenses, as the name suggests (and as mentioned in this post) locally produced [...]
Entries Tagged as 'local food'
Local Burger scores national exposure
May 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Healthy eating, local food
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Tip: Check farmers market schedule
May 13th, 2007 · No Comments · Cooking tips, local food
Saturday morning may be just one of the times that your local farmers markets operates. Check these resources to get more information.
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Oh, joy! CSA delivers the goods
May 8th, 2007 · No Comments · Food selection, local food
Got my first CSA bag of the season yesterday, and it was a delight: gorgeous lettuce, asparagus, spinach and rhubarb were the highlights for me. I was worried whether the farmers would have anything to offer, though. The rainfall over the weekend ranged from 3 to 8 inches (based on my highly informal survey), and [...]
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Lawrence has wealth of local food sources
May 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Food selection, local food
Here’s Kansas in the middle of the United States. We are ever so lucky here in Lawrence (see red dot below in Kansas) as far as our access to fresh, local food. Not only does the Lawrence Farmers Market have a Saturday morning market, as is common in towns and cities across the country, but [...]
Buy local, buy fresh campaign
May 1st, 2007 · No Comments · Environment, local food
One of the things I’m loving about this blog is it gives me an excuse to spend hours reading about food-related topics. Along the way I’ve been finding an array of cool resources. Here’s one: Now, if I did that right, you should be able to click on the banner and go to the foodroutes.org [...]
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Eating local goes mainstream
April 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Environment, Food selection, local food
The trend of eating locally produced food seems to have begun somewhere around 2000, and its appearance on the cover of Time magazine last month as “Eating Better Than Organic” makes clear that the concept has gone mainstream. Although most of us can’t eat like a Californian when basing our diet on local foods, we [...]
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