Low Mileage Food

There’s a variety of beliefs in my family, all the way from the ardently religious to the not so much.  Christmas is, of course, an important religious for many in my family, but it’s also a huge family and cultural and food day for the rest of us.
Christmas is my dad’s family’s holiday (growing up, [...]

… first of many.
The stairs to the basement in our house were “paneled” in this cheap, crappy, particleboard paneling that was already ripping off when we moved into the house.  We took a look at it and said “Oh, hey.  We could put shelves in the studs for pantry space.”
So Jeff started working on that [...]

Our first garden project was building a compost bin, since we’re I’m too cheap to buy one (there are some pickle barrel ones locally that look nice, but are pricey), but too finicky to just want to have a pile of compost sitting out in the back yard. 
The materials:

2 rolls of hardware cloth, half [...]

We just got our first snow of the year.  (I say first as if we’re going to get more.  Winter in North Carolina is unpredictable.  Some years we get no winter weather at all.  Some years, we get quite a bit.  This may be all we get this year.  But 3 to 4 inches [...]

There was no week 3. There were some local ingredients in some meals, but there was no getting it together enough to fix an entirely local meal.
Last night, though, I roasted some chicken drumsticks from Rocking F Farm over some local potatoes and served them up with some local lettuce (we have hot house [...]