Low Mileage Food

A great video I spotted over at TED.com.

We got: strawberries, yellow squash, zucchini, lettuce, broccoli, the season’s first peaches (!!), and 2 dozen extra large eggs and a dozen large (for making deviled eggs for a party yesterday).
We did not get: the season’s first blueberries, at $5 for a half pint. Ouch.
I wanted more of the Chinese cabbage I [...]

E. Coli strikes again, this time from the JSM Meat Holdings Co. in Chicago.
*Yet Another E. Coli Incident

Liz of Pocket Farm has retired from the blogging business, and this year’s One Local Summer is being hosted by Farm to Philly. If you don’t normally eat local, One Local Summer is a great way to ease into it, by trying to eat local one meal a week. It’s also a great [...]

This week:
2 dozen eggs
bacon
half gallon of cream
half gallon of milk (we normally buy gallons, but we just haven’t been going through it as quickly. I use milk that’s gone off for cooking, but I can only go through that so fast, too)
collards
potatoes
tomatoes
cucumbers
2 pounds of ground beef
bulk pork sausage
swiss, sharp cheddar, and marbled colby
2 heads [...]

I just emailed my chair a full draft of my thesis. There’s going to be plenty to fix, but this is still a huge deal, and I’m this much closer to having my brain back (and being able to can and cook and blog and etc. again).
Woot!

2 dozen eggs, a package of bulk ground beef and bulk sausage and a beautiful hunk of sirloin steak that’s big enough for 2 dinners from Rocking F, potatoes and tomatoes from Faucette Produce, cheese from the Mulners, lettuce from Weatherhand (I think that’s his name) farm, strawberries (!) from High Rock Berries, sprouts from [...]