July 29 was the sixth week of our CSA (Waldingfield Farm, pick-up point Sandy Hook Organic Farmer’s Market). Our bounty included: - mixed salad greens - sugar snap peas - green beans - Swiss chard - patty pan squash - cucumbers - green bell peppers - Chinese eggplant - sun gold cherry tomatoes Our local [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2008’
Raw Milk Yogurt
I finally made a decent raw milk yogurt! I had the flavor I wanted, but couldn’t get the consistency. I kept getting something that would properly be called a yogurt shake. The problem was that I wasn’t heating the milk enough. Heat destroys the enzymes and natural good bacteria in the milk and I wanted [...]
Local Meal, No Challenge
Last night’s local meal is not a part of any of the ongoing organized challenges, but a local delight nonetheless. Rib eye steaks from Stuarts. Home made pasta, using: - all purpose wheat flour, wheat from Lightning Tree Farm, milled and sold by Wild Hive Farm, both in Millbrook, NY (local wheat!!) - eggs from [...]
Bluestone Farm
To cap off a perfect day, we spent Saturday evening with the Sisters at Bluestone Farm, where we sampled many of their delectables as they were puttin’ ‘em by. The Sisters had harvested some Nero Italian kale and some rutabagas. I learned that rutabagas can be cut into strips and deep fried, like French fries. [...]
New York Breadbasket
Regular readers of this blog (if there are any) know that I have been complaining periodically (or maybe incessantly) about my inability to find local wheat. Well, have I got news for you-I found some! Lightning Tree Farm in Millbrook, NY grows several varieties and I saw it with my own eyes and tasted it [...]
Grains at Last
It looks like I may have found local grains! Lightning Tree Farm is offering a free workshop tomorrow (Saturday, July 26, 1-4 p.m.) called Growing Bread Locally. The event is a cooperative effort between Lightning Tree and Wild Hive Farm (a micro-mill and bakery). Here’s the description from the NOFA NY site: Get an in-depth [...]
CSA, Week 5
July 22 (today) is the fifth week of our CSA (Waldingfield Farm, pick-up point Sandy Hook Organic Farmer’s Market). Our bounty included: - mixed salad greens - sugar peas (or are these snap peas?) - kale - Swiss chard - yellow summer squash - patty pan squash - broccoli Our local dinner (no challenge) was [...]
Outsourcing Locavores
This NY Times article about lazy locavores proves that just about anything can be outsourced. For a fee, Mr. Paque, who lives in San Francisco, will build an organic garden in your backyard, weed it weekly and even harvest the bounty, gently placing a box of vegetables on the back porch when he leaves. As [...]
Puttin’ By
When I started this local eating thing, I had no intention of puttin’ food by (storing it either by canning, freezing, drying, or some other method). I was to be a grasshopper, patron of the ants of the world. It turns out that there are not enough ants to feed locavore grasshoppers. While we made [...]
Foraging, 7/19/08
Today’s forage was a solo effort. I packed up the cooler, camera, and a notebook. And coffee. Can’t forget the coffee. (Yes, I’m the kind of locavore that consumes things that don’t or won’t grow here.) The first stop was the Bethel Farmer’s Market. The season opening was last week, but I missed that one. [...]
