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| PlayGod |
 Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:39 am |
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One of my favorite clients, a local organic farm, has a bunch of great recipes on their website. Y'all have probably figured out that I've gone native and live in the woods and hang out with farmers now... 
I'm doing some link-whoring here, but feel free to click if you're interested in recipes for local, seasonal organic produce, true free-range poultry and eggs, and naturally-raised, humanely processed meats.
Here's some visuals from the site to whet your appetite:
Yeah, I get paid in food (and $, too, now that the site, linkbait and email campaigns are kicking ass)... I also work-share 4 hours Friday morning picking and packing produce on the farm... it's actually fun, and we have a huge potluck lunch after work.
I spend less than $50/month on food now, but I've never eaten better!  |
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| Coco |
| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:13 pm |
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Looks good.
I just bought a house and managed to get a small, makeshift garden in over the summer. Backayard is full of crushed rock so I managed to clear some space and plant some stuff. I've been enjoying 3 different types of tomatoes (red, yellow, purple), green beans, purple and regular carrots as well as yellow beets. I also planted red, green and sweet yellow peppers. No pesticides were used and I'm going to start composting in the spring as well.
After having that little taste I'm converting 1/3 of my backyard to a kick ass garden next summer. Fresh produce grown with your own two hands is hard to beat. Anything bought at the store is tastless compared to home grown.
My girlfriend's dad is a cattle guy and he does the whole free range/organic thing. Only shot those cows get is one right after they are born and that's it. Every March we get a lot of beef when he slaughters a cow and I havn't had to buy meat in almost a year as we get lamb from him too. |
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| PlayGod |
| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:23 pm |
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ORDER OF THE SKULL
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Yeah, coco!
You should look into adding some perennial fruits as well. If there are grapes that will grow in your region, or maybe some native fruits, you should go for it.
Also, if you're interested in more reasons to eat right, check out this book:
Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. |
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| steve-g |
| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:34 pm |
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We rent our house so can only cultivate part of the garden. But we managed to get a good harvest of (organic) foods this year.
I started to eat the good stuff after I met Mrs-g. When she first came to England she used to laugh when we were in the supermarkets "and this is a developed country???".
She took me to meet her family in Northern Transylvania on the Ukrainian border - it was all organic seasonal stuff. Leant how to make bread, learnt how to eat good.
Best bit is I eat less now, spend less and eat better food! |
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| Coco |
| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:52 pm |
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PlayGod wrote: Yeah, coco!
You should look into adding some perennial fruits as well. If there are grapes that will grow in your region, or maybe some native fruits, you should go for it.
Also, if you're interested in more reasons to eat right, check out this book:
Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan.
It gets to -30 C here in the winter so fruit trees don't do well here. There is crab apples, small apples, small plums ect but nothing major. My parents live in BC in the Okanagon valley so out there thay have cheries, apples, nectarines, peaches, pears ect.
I've been doing some research about what can do well in my area, which is the prairies of Canada. Apparently apricots can do ok here if there isn't an early frost.
Grapes do grow here. My old lady planted Virginia Creeper on the chain link fence but I wanted grape vines. You get the same coverage but with fruit.
My parents have always been bad-ass gardeners but I never got it or understood why until I bought my own place. Now I'm obssessed. I'm already planning what to plant next summer.
Steve-g, since you hit the Ukraine you may have had some borscht. I've got a kick ass borscht recipe I came up with myself using yellow beets, beet greens, dill ect. |
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| motorpsycho67 |
| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:06 pm |
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| Eating organic isn't cheap here in the city. |
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| PlayGod |
| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:02 pm |
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motorpsycho67 wrote: Eating organic isn't cheap here in the city.
Find a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program in your city. We do ours with either an up-front investment ($35/week in advance or monthly/weekly drafts) or 4 hour per week work share. Well worth it.
http://www.localharvest.org/
You end up getting enough to feed a good-sized family, or to can for winter. It's fun because you have to learn to cook a lot of different stuff. It'll change your life. |
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