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Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
Over at the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof discusses reforming the Department of Agriculture and Obama's choice of a new secretary of agriculture. Kristof suggests renaming it the Department of Food. He notes that only 2% of the population farms...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
On Saturday, January 10, there will be a seminar sponsored by the Illinois Vegetable Growers Association, the Illinois State Horticulture Society, the Illinois Herb Association, the Illinois Department of Agriculture and the University of Illinois Extensi...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
On Saturday, January 10, there will be a seminar sponsored by the Illinois Vegetable Growers Association, the Illinois State Horticulture Society, the Illinois Herb Association, the Illinois Department of Agriculture and the University of Illinois Extensi...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
Just a reminder, as I mentioned earlier, that the Illinois Stewardship Alliance will be holding their 2nd annual Meet Your Local Producers farm expo and holiday market this Saturday, November 22, 2008, 10 am - 3 pm, in the Illinois...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
The Illinois Stewardship Alliance will be holding their 2nd annual Meet Your Local Producers farm expo and holiday market on November 22, 2008, 10 am - 3 pm, in the Illinois Building of the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield.I wasn't...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
Lindsay of the Illinois Stewardship Alliance sent out an email reminding everyone that the final dinner in the Local Flavors series is tomorrow. These dinners, sponsored by Buy Fresh Buy Local Central Illinois, the Illinois Stewardship Alliance and Downto...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
The other day I mentioned the "Eat the View" campaign of Kitchen Gardeners International. (Scroll to the bottom of that post.) They're urging the next U.S. President to replace a portion of the White House lawn with a vegetable garden.As...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
The other day I wrote about Michael Pollan's suggestions for the next President. Since then, he presented his ideas on Google's Zeitgeist. You can watch the 25 minute presentation on YouTube: In addition, he will be on two NPR programs...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
I called this morning to find out whether it was too late to register for the backyard composting telenet being offered by U of I Extension. After being told that I could still register, I went to back to their...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
A few days ago, Carey of Food Not Lawns Springfield sent out an email about a televised Backyard Composting seminar being offered by University of Illinois Extension. The telenet will discuss composting, which is something that I've been planning on...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
Lindsay of the Illinois Stewardship Alliance sent out an email reminding everyone that the last two dinners in the Local Flavors series are coming up. These dinners, sponsored by Buy Fresh Buy Local Central Illinois, the Illinois Stewardship Alliance and....
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
Michael Pollan is the author of The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals and In Defense of Food: An Eaters Manifesto. Those two books (as well as Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
Before we bought this house, we knew that there were a few things that would need to be fixed. For one thing, there were a few plumbing issues to take care of. The kitchen faucet leaked, the garbage disposal didn't...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
I can't believe how quickly summer went by! Much of that was just due to all of our attention being focused on buying a house, preparing to move, moving, then trying to dig our way back out of the boxes...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
(I was expecting to get this posted yesterday, but instead I finished clearing out the garage. We now have our cars parked in the garage, for the first time in at least 4 years! We're very excited!) As I mentioned...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
Apple Barn Orchard, originally uploaded by Wally Hartshorn. The Apple Barn Orchard, in Chatham, Illinois, grows and sells a wide variety of apples (duh!), corn, pumpkins, gourds, etc. In addition, they sell cider and delicious fudge! (Yum!) My son's Funsh...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
I really didn't intend for this blog to consist of nothing but weekly lists of what was in our CSA share. (Since we only have 4 shares left, that wouldn't work well anyway!) Immediately after we moved to our new...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
Hill Street Farm CSA Week 20 Share, originally uploaded by Wally Hartshorn. The share we picked up on September 27 included kale, garlic, Dragon's Lingerie beans, basil, eggplants, radishes, patty pan squash, and (new since last week) turnips, a purple......
Posted by Springfield Locavore 3 years ago.
Hill Street Farm CSA Week 19 Share, originally uploaded by Wally Hartshorn. The share we picked up on September 20 included apples, kale, garlic, Dragon lingerie beans, basil, sweet peppers, radishes, and (new this week) bok choy and mint. We've...
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