This month the Green Moms Carnival is tackling love for the month of February but not in the usual sense. Participants were asked to share the green books and authors they love. At first I was rather anxious because I thought it was just what books we love in general and that would be, for me, like picking which grains of sand I like best. I go to the library 2-3 times a week. I have 20-30 books checked out at any given time. I always have my nose in book and have since I was a teen. Books are … [Read more...]
The Feast Nearby
As is normal this time of year, I am completely head over heels in love with local food. My garden is coming along nicely and I have tiny cauliflower, tomatoes, and sugar snap peas already. My city's farmer's market starts this Thursday and my organic delivery box is ripe with farm fresh produce and pastured eggs. It is about this time that I like to re-read my fave local food memoirs like This Organic Life, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. So of course when I saw a local foodie book at my … [Read more...]
Farmer's Market Trend Spurs Tricksters
I ran across two separate articles today that essentially shared the same alarming trend. Unethical farmer's, agricorp, and chain grocery stores all want to cash in on this Farmer's Market - Local Food craze. Those of us who love greener living and natural foods LOVE our farmer's markets and when I read this stuff I get REALLY pissed. Farmer's markets are one of the number one ways we have to tap into local food. I myself also use a local food delivery service but other than that.. the … [Read more...]
Food Preservation – Dehydration Rocks!
Like my melon colored kitchen in the photo above? I LOVE it! I also love dehydrated foods. Drying foods is a great way to preserve local and seasonal foods and make it available for the remainder of the year. In fact I much prefer dehydration to canning because not only are you preserving the food, you are leaving it structurally and nutritionally in tact. When you cook a food you are changing the composition of it AND you are destroying as much as 50-80% of the nutritional value it once held. … [Read more...]
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Hot on the heals of my review of Choosing Simplicity I decided to finally review Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver... a book that has been on my shelf for months. :) The book immediately resonates with me because it starts out in Tucson, Arizona as Kingsolver and her family leave their home of 25 years to live permanently in Virginia on their summer farm. I remember well the postcard perfect saguaro cacti and gorgeous desert sunsets. One person's dream is another person's … [Read more...]
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