Low Mileage Food

Yesterday, we were in Deep Roots, doing our weekly shopping (since I wasn’t here last weekend, being up north with family for Thanksgiving, we didn’t get our normal farmer’s market run in) [reminds me: this is a placeholder for posting about the Pennsylvania markets]. They still had turkeys available – organic, but not [...]

I spotted this entry from Groovy Green over on Make Magazine’s blog this morning. I knew you could grow your own, but hadn’t read about anyone actually doing it until now.
Linky: http://groovygreen.com/groove/?p=689

Marty posing on the couch Originally uploaded by jharbert.
Marty posing on the couch
Ellie napping in the office windowsill Originally uploaded by jharbert.
Ellie napping in the office windowsill

EDIT: It occured to me (actually, our web stats tell me) that we have many readers that don’t live in the US. I don’t want our non-US readers to feel excluded from this discussion, so I’ve changed the title of this post and one of the questions at the end. This is [...]

This is why we shop at the farmer’s market. Yesterday’s goods included:
- 1.4 pounds of sirloin steak from Rocking F (it was buy-one-get-one again, which made it cheaper per pound than the hamburger)
- 1.4 pounds hamburger
- 2 heads of lettuce (which, I realized after the fact was perhaps not locally grown; vendors supposed to [...]

1) Jeff and I were in Deep Roots the other day, and they had out North Carolina grown Arkansas Black apples. Mostly in curiousity over the name, we got one to try, and split it tonight as a predinner snack. It was crisp and sweet and had a great texture (not mealy [...]

The Democrats took far more seats than they needed to take control of the House. Good news.
As I write this, there are still two Senate seats undecided, Montana and Virginia. The Democrats are leading in both races, though by very slim margins. Siding the Independents with the Democrats, the Senate split is [...]

Saturday morning was cold – 29 degrees cold, a number that I’m not used to thinking of in association with early November. It could have been this chilly last year, and I’m just not remembering it, but either way, we bundled up to go to the farmer’s market Saturday.
We got lucky this week – [...]