Posts from ‘February, 2009’

This is what happens to potatoes in the cupboard when no one’s paying attention:

I should have put them in a cooler in the garage, but (…shoulda, woulda, coulda…) I didn’t. It’s too early to plant them and too late to eat them. Compost? Art? Thoughts anyone?

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was my usual Mardi Gras meal, but all local:

pancakes, made with flour from Wild Hive Farm and Micro Mill, an egg from Ox Hollow Farm, milk from Stone Wall Dairy, and butter from Trinity Farm. (Baking powder and salt: origins unknown)
bacon from Ox Hollow Farm
maple syrup from [...]

Lucky me—I’m posting late, but I think I might make it in under the wire!
This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was:

ribeye from Stuarts Family Farm
potato from Riverbank Farm
red wine from McLaughlin Vineyards

That’s it!

This year’s Connecticut Northeast Organic Farming Association (CT NOFA) conference is called CULTIVATING AN ORGANIC CONNECTICUT: Closing Connecticut’s Food Gap with Urban Agriculture,
Small Farms and Gardens.
It’s on Saturday, February 21, 2009, 8:30 AM – 4:45 PM at Windsor High School, Windsor, CT.
The keynote speakers are Ian Marvey (co-founder and director of Added Value and its [...]

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was pork chops with apples and acorn squash. The sweet and the heat together in this dish are really awesome.

Pork chops from Ox Hollow Farm
Cortland apple and apple cider from Silverman’s Farm
acorn squash from Waldingfield Farm
shallots and red pepper from Cherry Grove in Newtown
garlic and maple syrup [...]

I saw a most inspiring movie the other night at the Bluestone Farm Fullmoon fireside: The Power of Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil. Apart from its value as a “how to” or as a plug for local, sustainable food, it is a testament to the human spirit.
From their site:
When the Soviet Union collapsed [...]

The Hartford Courant blogged about the current debates going on about raw milk here in CT.
It’s not often you hear a couple of nuns with doctorates stand up for the right to sell cow’s milk, but that’s part of what is at stake under a plan to limit the sale of unpasteurized milk.
He’s talking [...]

A couple of Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meals this week–
The first was chicken, potatoes, and kale:

roasted chicken (from Ox Hollow Farm), prepared with olive oil (from out there), turkey broth (homemade from my thanksgiving turkey and frozen into two-cup packs for meals like this), shallots (from Cherry Grove), Vespers wine (from Jerram Winery in [...]

Here in the great state of Connecticut (third smallest in the union), raw milk is currently legal. We can even buy it in retail stores that choose to carry it. Interestingly, those that choose to tend to be natural foods stores. Lately, there’s been some action to review and change the availability of raw milk [...]

This week features a few Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meals:
Lentil Soup

Lentils from out there (bulk, organic, from New Morning Natural Foods)
Carrots from Riverbank Farm
Potatoes from Waldingfield Farm
Onion from Cherry Grove Farm in Newtown
Bread from Wave Hill Breads
Butter from Smyth’s Trinity Farm in Enfield
UPDATE: Oooops, forgot to mention bacon from Ox Hollow Farm

Ribeye Steak

Ribeye from [...]