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Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
In the previous post I talked about planning to try a Square Foot Garden. The garden still doesn't exist, but it's a bit closer. On Saturday I bought the lumber, 3 bales of peat moss (4 cu. ft. each), and...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
Good grief, the last few weeks have been nuts! Spring arrived on March 20 -- huzzah! Dawn and I immediately came down with a stomach flu. Ugh! Then our computer sickened and died, quite definitively. Ugh! We have a new...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
Our local PBS radio station, WUIS, is holding a pledge drive this week, teaming up with the Buy Fresh Buy Local Central Illinois campaign of the Illinois Stewardship Alliance. If you make a pledge to WUIS, you will receive a...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
After posting about the showing of Food Fight as part of the Earth Week Film Festival, I looked at the trailers for the other films that will be shown. They all look excellent. Shoot. I guess I'll have to go...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
The new documentary Food Fight is currently being shown in a few screenings around the country. It will be shown in Chicago on May 15-16, as part of Greenfest. I've no idea when it will get distributed in general release....
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
The National Weather Service says we might have up to 6 inches of heavy wet snow Saturday night. Yikes! Better now than later, I suppose. I'm still hoping to do some yard work this weekend.
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
Remember the Eat the View campaign (Scroll to the bottom of my post about Michael Pollan's open letter to the \"Farmer in Chief\" for some links and a video.) Well, it was successful! Here's an excerpt from the New York...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
Watt Bros. Pharmacy opened in 1938, but with Walgreens and CVS on nearly every block, not to mention Wal-Mart, it's a wonder they've been able to remain in business. With my interest in helping to strengthen community ties (stoked by...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
I ordered a John Deere LA155 riding mower the other day. I have mixed feelings about it.At our old place, we had a smallish lawn. Using our Black & Decker cordless electric mulching mower, I could mow the grass in...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
The New York Times has an interesting article, What's Eating Our Kids Fears About 'Bad' Foods, which discusses orthorexia, \"an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.\" (Michael Pollan talked a bit about this in his book In Defense of Food: An....
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
Mother Jones has an interview with Michael Pollan. He talks about the impact of our food systems on climate change, Obama's choice of Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture, the problems with corn-based ethanol, subsidies, the high cost of healthy food,...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
While reading The $64 Tomato, I kept thinking, \"Part of this guy's problem is that he doesn't just want his vegetable garden to provide him with vegetables; he wants it to look pretty as well.\" As far as I was...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
While reading The $64 Tomato, I kept thinking, \"Part of this guy's problem is that he doesn't just want his vegetable garden to provide him with vegetables; he wants it to look pretty as well.\" As far as I was...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
I talked to Andy Heck of Hill Street Farms yesterday. He'll be doing another CSA this year, this time with Garrick Veenstra of Veenstra's Vegetables. Rather than pickup being at the Old Capitol Farmers' Market on Saturday mornings, pickup will...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
I just realized that the Old Capitol Farmers' Market opens 100 days from today. Woohoo! Mark May 20 on your calendar!
Posted by Springfield Locavore 2 years ago.
Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food, appeared on Bill Moyers Journal on November 28, after Obama was elected President but before he appointed Tom Vilsack to be the Secretary of Agriculture. PBS has now...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
(I started this post back in early November. *sigh*) When we were preparing our Halloween decorations, one item we had was a giant spider made out of black plastic bags that you fill with leaves to form the body and...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
When I heard the title, The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden, I knew I had to get this book. As someone...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
When I heard the title, The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden, I knew I had to get this book. As someone...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
Resolution #1: Post more often to my damn blog!*sigh* Actually, I started several blog posts over the last month. I just haven't actually finished any of them! Some of us aren't hung up on the whole \"completion\" thing, ya knowOkay,...
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