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Grilled Pizza & Good Company
Recently, Mike & I have had the opportunity to cook locally for both friends & family. Due to the recent abundance of fresh vegetables and beautiful weather, we have been able to make grilled,...
View ArticleTotally Local & Yogurt Facts
Mike made a meal tonight that was completely local and most of it was grown right in our backyard. We has salad and some sort of tomato, potato, okra stuff. Very good.On a somewhat unrelated note, Mike...
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Harvests from the Garden
Lettuces, nasturtium, some string beans, a tiny radish, herbs, and a tomato.Yukon Gold & fingerling potatoes with some tiny onions
View ArticleConundrum
So....Mike is out of town for 9 days and I am really torn as to how to handle my eating plan. Do I try to stick to the local diet that we made a pledge to uphold at home? Or, do I go ahead and buy...
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Back Home
As Emily mentioned, I was away on vacation last week with my family in Montana and Washington state. It was a great trip, with beautiful weather and gorgeous scenery.In the context of our local eating...
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Tomato Tasting
Our spring garden has reached, if not passed, its summer peak and we are (Mike is) now beginning to think about a fall crop. Many of the veggies have already been harvested and the plants pulled up. We...
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A Challege!
It recently came to my attention (thanks Jennie) that the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association is hosting a local eatting challenge as part of their initiative to promote local foods. Basically the...
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10 Week Review
Well, if you've visited the blog anytime in the past ten weeks, you know that we have been absentee bloggers. But, be advised that the food project is still alive and well. Its actually been so...
View ArticleFood Challenge Failure
If anyone can remember back several months, and posts, ago I was talking a lot of shit about winning a local food challenge. Well, I didn't win....but it isn't my fault.I actually kept meticulous notes...
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Two More Days to Go
Just a couple more days of the food project are left. It feels pretty weird actually. It is going to be strange to readjust to shopping in grocery stores. But I'm not going to go into all the...
View ArticleWE MADE IT!
Today is the one year anniversary of the start of the Carolina Food Project. Officially, we are through. We celebrated by going out for Mexican food. No trip to the grocery store yet though, I'm trying...
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The Aftermath
The week following the food project was probably the week that Mike and I fought the most about the project. At the time, neither of us really knew what the others' post-project plans were. We both...
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Further Reading
Michael Pollan, Omnivores Dilemma, www.michaelpollan.comBarbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, www.kingsolver.comSmith & MacKennon, Plenty, www.100milediet.orgMichael Bittman, Food...
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Pictures from our new garden
As you may know, Emily and I recently moved outside of town and now have much more land at our disposal for planting a garden. Here are some pictures from what we have so far:Garden from one endTomato...
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Chickens
Emily and I have been planning to get chickens ever since we traveled up to Michigan and saw her parents' birds. Shortly after we moved, Emily's family was in town, and her dad and brother helped me...
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Garden - Year 2
We've started the garden back up for spring, despite the incredibly wet winter we've had, and we're going to try to get back into blogging about it. This is partly inspired by Brock's new blog, Dirty...
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Spring Planting
We've started preparing and planting beds for the spring. There's still a lot more to do, but so far we've planted kale, cabbage, carrots, beets, onions, leeks, lettuce, spinach, collards, peas,...
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Tomatoes and Herbs
Last year our tomatoes did horribly. The weather was incredibly wet which lead to a diseased downfall for nearly all of our twenty-five plants. The only ones that did anything were the San Marzanos and...
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