The beauty of our local food economy is that it is spread across various micro-climates surrounding Charlotte but we need more local growers.There is a misconception that us farmers, because we are farmers, are able to grow anything in the seed catalogs. That is certainly not true in our case, although I think [...]
We get asked all the time what do with this or that, whether it is potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, or peppers. We are happy to share what we know but sometimes we want to scream “Just eat it!”
Our condiments this time of year are sea salt, freshly ground black pepper, and good olive oil. Duke’s mayonnaise [...]
If you recall, I got bent out of shape back in Feb. over a food safety bill.
It sort of fizzled out but now there is another one gaining traction, HR 2749, The Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009
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I understand the point of view of food safety from the ground beef re-calls, the peanut butter [...]
Best definition I have run across is from Local Harvest:
“For a while now, many of us have used the word ‘local’ as shorthand for food that meets a certain, somewhat ineffable quality standard. In this context, ‘local’ means something like this: This food is grown near here, on a human scale, by people who care [...]
This is a funny video with a Star Wars theme about the battle between organic and conventional produce at the grocery store.
Ellie and Levi really liked it. Grocery Store Wars.
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