Posts from ‘January, 2010’

The CT NOFA January 2010 Newsletter is posted online. Enjoy! These are just a few of the noteworthy upcoming events listed in this issue: 10th Annual NOFA Course in Organic Land Care CT NOFA Getting Started in Organic Farming CT NOFA’s 28th Annual Conference ~ Sustaining Connecticut: Growing Local, Eating Healthier, Living Smarter

Rob Moutoux, a farmer in the DC area, is now cultivating grains on his farm. The Slow Cook has a post about it. He [Montoux] estimates that his 10 acres produce about 30,000 pounds of grain, which he stores in wooden bins in his barn before turning it into whole wheat flour or rye flour [...]

In a post the other day about raw milk, I mentioned this small dairy farm in Canada being harassed by Fraser Health on a consistent basis. I wondered why people would take the time to go after small dairies (whose customers deliberately go out of their way to purchase raw milk) and asked, “Qui bono?” [...]

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was all about recycling (other people’s recipes, that is)! I fell in love with the picture of Local Kitchen’s pizza crust. I’ve been looking for a good pizza dough recipe, the kind that has so much flavor people say, “the crust is the best part!” So, there [...]

I just renewed my membership to CT NOFA (Northeast Organic Farming Association) and this is one annual check I do not mind writing. Their tagline is “Cultivating an Organic Connecticut since 1982.” They were organic before organic was cool. Just to put it in perspective, the U.S. President in 1982 thought ketchup was a vegetable. [...]

Perhaps you’ve heard of Westport, CT. It’s on Connecticut’s Gold Coast and it’s not inexpensive to live there. It’s even possible that some of the local and sustainable foodies in Westport are precisely those from whom down-to-earth-not-wholefoodsnation local foodies would seek to distance themselves. And yet, here’s this cool thing going on in Westport. [They [...]