Low Mileage Food

Green Cleaning

pork tenderloin, corn, roasted potatoes
Our One Local Summer meal this week was pork tenderloin roasted with a bunch of spices, roasted potatoes, and corn. The pork came from the Wards, the potatoes from Faucette Produce, and the corn from the peach orchard (I haven’t gotten their names [...]

We got our first cantaloupe of the season last week. The only melon I eat is watermelon, but Jeff reported that it was delicious. We cut it up at the beginning of the week, and it went into his lunches last week.
This week was milk, eggs, sausage, potatoes, onions, blueberries, [...]

The Dope on Hemp

breakfast casserole and corn
Our OLS meal this week was breakfast casserole and corn (I swear, we eat more than meat and cheese. Really.) The breakfast casserole had eggs (from the Wards), sausage (also from the Wards), cheese (the Molners) and cream (Homeland Creamery), layered with homemade [...]

Shift Happens

Street Use

This week was cheddar studded meatloaf patties and mashed potatoes. Cheese from the Molners, ground beef from Rocking F, potatoes from Faucette Produce, an egg from Ward’s Happy Chickens, milk and the cream to make butter from Homeland Creamery, all purchased at the curb farmer’s market. Also included were various non-local spices and [...]

We saw the first of the season’s corn last week, but we figured it was going to be crazy expensive and not very good, so we passed. I bit this week, though. The same folks were back, and with a lot more corn, so I asked them how much. “Dozen ears for [...]

62 Little Known Uses Of Vinegar

pork and potatoes
This week was garlic-butter roasted pork and scalloped potatoes, plus a side salad for me. The pork was purchased from Ward’s Happy Chickens (our egg vendor), the potatoes from Faucette Produce, the cheese from the Molners (it comes from Ohio, but that’s not so far [...]

So, some of you know that Jeff and I have been running a side project to keep track of what we’re spending on food this year (both in time and money) to try to punch holes in the notion that eating locally and/or organically has to be more expensive than eating conventional foods. We [...]

Smashing the Clock

Our oceans are turning into plastic