Low Mileage Food

Sorry for the dearth of posts lately, folks. Between Joyce’s schoolwork, both of us being sick, and an out of town trip, life hasn’t been conducive to normality these last couple of weeks. We’ve still been eating local foods as much as we can though. That remains a very high priority for [...]

Short, not exactly shameful confession: we didn’t make it to the farmer’s market last week. We ended up deciding that we wanted a lazy Saturday morning and just didn’t feel like going out and we’d hit the big farmer’s market on Sunday. We’d been out to the Rocking F Farm store on [...]

Local meal 9-5-06

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Our One Local Summer meal this past week was chicken pie. We started out with another whole chicken from Back Woods Family Farm, which went in the crock pot (on high for five hours this time, then low for [...]

Joyce and I stopped by Rocking F Farm’s new store today. We did buy a few things while we were there, but the primary purpose of our visit was to interview Marguerite, who owns the farm along with her husband Steve. Steve was out in the fields, so we didn’t get to chat [...]

This week we finally braved dealing with a whole chicken. We obtained a lovely local chicken from the folks at Back Woods Family Farm (well, two of them, actually… the other is in the freezer for this week) and dealt with it in the easiest manner possible: in the crockpot. It went [...]