Some highlights of last night’s dinner with friends.
Sweet corn at its fresh and local peak.
Three kinds of pasture-raised meat (beef, goat, lamb) cooked over a fire fueled with wood from the same property.
Homemade coffee ice cream with chocolate chunks.
Fruit salad made entirely of fruit from friends’ farm. The fruits included plums, peaches, pluots and an [...]
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I went to the kitchen last night thinking I’d make myself a big, spring salad of spinach and I forget what else. Instead, I saw that in addition to all the good green spring stuff in my refrigerator I had some freshly thawed local, grass-fed and grass-finished ground beef from MJ Ranch. My plans changed.
The [...]
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Meaty treats. Join ranchers and Local Burger maven Hilary Brown 8 a.m.-10 a.m. this Saturday (May 24) at the Lawrence Farmers Market for Local Meat: It’s what’s for dinner! With Hilary at the grill (and doing some advance prep, too), market visitors can sample a variety of local meats. At a volunteer meeting last week, [...]
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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 Saturday, May 10, [...]
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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 it also [...]