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Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
Today's garden harvest was 10 Brandywine tomatoes weighing a total of 9½ pounds (very good!), plus a zucchini weighing 4½ pounds and measuring over 18 inches long (not so good). The largest of the tomatoes weighed 1½ pounds! After I...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
The Illinois State Fair starts this weekend. Since the Illinois Products Farmers' Market held on Thursday evenings is located on the Illinois State Fairgrounds, that means no farmers' market this week or next week. We still have the Old Capitol...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
Our lawn desperately needed to be mowed. The grass hasn't been growing very quickly recently -- although the weeds seem to grow at the same pace regardless of the weather. However, it had been long enough that it really needed...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
We went to the Old Capitol Farmers' Market this morning and bought 24 ears of sweetcorn (cost: $9), which we then processed to freeze for the winter. Aw, Shucks! 24 ears of sweetcorn, ready to be shucked. Naked Corn! Ready...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
I bought 8 pints of blueberries (cost: $28) at the farmers' market on Thursday, with the idea of freezing them for this winter. (It's coming! December 21 is just 143 days away!) To \"flash freeze\" them, you gently wash them,...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
One of the interesting tidbits that I picked up while reading locavore-related books was the inverse relationship between cooking and obesity: More cooking leads to less obesity; less cooking leads to more obesity. As you might have noticed, there's not.....
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
This article at Good Times, Taking 'Local' Back, discusses another aspect of the topic of my earlier post about corporations abusing the term \"local\". It's not just local foods, but \"buy local\" campaigns in general that are finding ver...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
Faux Handmade Consider this hypothetical scenario. Suppose that you discover a tiny furniture shop. You go inside and find a man making furniture — entirely by hand. Without the use of any power tools, he is crafting tables, chairs, stools,...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
Last weekend we went to Bristol, Wisconsin (just north of the Illinois/Wisconsin border) to the Bristol Renaissance Faire! We love going to renfaires, and this one is a great one! It runs every weekend from just after July 4 through...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
Did you notice the article Free food can be yours for the picking in the July 23 edition of the Illinois Times Here's an excerpt: \"Urban fruit foraging\" is a grassroots phenomenon that has arisen spontaneously as local folks have...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
A coworker mentioned the other day that he had some fresh green beans recently, but that they weren't as good as the ones that came out of a can! They were leathery, and he had to throw out about a...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
It seems like only yesterday that this was a small, unnotable zucchini in our garden. Wait... It was just yesterday! What the heck happened! I know there are larger zucchini than this, but the speed with which it went from...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
Last week I discussed how being a locavore helps me lose weight. This morning I weighed 238.3, a loss of another 2 pounds over the last week! Can I maintain that weight loss as we start another week Breakfast: Scrambled...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
Life is good! Breakfast - Cheese omelet Eggs from Bear Creek Farm & Ranch (Palmer, IL) Cheese from Ropp Jersey Cheese (Bloomington, IL) Milk from Kilgus Homestead (Fairbury, IL) Butter from Vincent Family Farm (Rochester, IL) Lunch - Sweetcorn, with.....
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
One of my hopes in becoming a locavore was that it would help me lose weight. After all, nutrition experts say that, instead of eating french fries, hamburgers, shakes, cookies, candy, chips, etc, we should be eating plenty of fresh...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
We just got back from a trip, visiting with friends and relatives in my old hometown of Centralia, Illinois over the July 4 weekend. As usual, a trip out of town means plenty of non-local food. Worse than that, it...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
Peaches and the first sweetcorn of the season! Yum! Incidentally, a good way to cook sweetcorn quickly is to leave it in the husk and microwave it for 2-3 minutes. The husk keeps it moist and (I think) adds additional...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
We’ll be able to buy local milk soon! Real 100–mile local milk, not the semi–local milk from Oberweis Dairy! Woot! Lindsay Record of the Illinois Stewardship Alliance posted to the Springfield Food Not Lawns mailing list today, saying that Kilgus......
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet . It's a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com \"Computers are incredibly fa...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
I'm back! It's been a ridiculously long time since I've posted here. I'm sorry! (Stupid Sims 3!) My last post was about May 31, the 12th day of going locavore. Today is the 29th day. So what have we been...
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