Posts from ‘August, 2008’

The October 2008 Eat Local Challenge has been announced and the sign-up sheet is available. It might seem kind of early to be bringing this up, but it’s not. I missed out on the 2008 One Local Summer Challenge because by the time I realized it was about to happen, registrations were closed! Of course, [...]

Today we went all over the place…we missed our usual haunts while we were on vacation: our farms, our markets, our farmers. We began at the Bethel Farmers Market. We got lots of goodies, too numerous to mention from Newtown Cedar Hill Farm, Maple Bank Farm, Don Taylor’s Farm, and Vaszauskas Farm. By the way [...]

I bought a dehydrator simply to make yogurt. Sure, I told myself at the time, I could dry berries and cherries and make healthy chips out of root vegetables. But the main driver was that I needed a reliable incubator for my yogurt and that was all. Sure, I’ve tried a few vegetable experiments, previously [...]

I just got the Summer 2008 Edition of the Edible Nutmeg (at New Morning Natural Foods). It’s probably been out awhile…I need to subscribe already. Anyway, what caught my eye in this issue was an article called Putting By. I have to admit, I’m slowly warming up to the idea of food preservation, and not [...]

Welcome to Late Bloomers Farm, a term meant to capture the output of our victory garden as well as our discovery of the joys of local food in our middle years. I moved the blog from Google’s Blogger (http://locavores.blogspot.com), converting to WordPress in the process. My apologies in advance while I grow into the place.

August 20 was the ninth week of our CSA (Waldingfield Farm, pick-up point Sandy Hook Organic Farmer’s Market). Our bounty: - patty pan squash - kale - green onions - Asian eggplant - blue potatoes - lots of different tomatoes I’m not sure which is which—here are the choices: Local meal, no challenge: - grilled [...]

After spending most of the day in outlets in Manchester buying clothing made in China and Indonesia, we went down to Bennington to their Farmers Market. We scored: - organic beets, carrots, garlic, purple “green” beans, Chinese eggplant, and eggs from Wildstone Farm - organic watermelon from Mighty Food Farm - corn from Darling Farmstand [...]

Frankly, I wasn’t sure if we’d be able to keep up with local fooding on vacation, considering how much of it depends on knowing where to go to get the good stuff. Sure, we packed up provisions in the cooler, but certainly not enough to eat for over a week’s worth of time. So, an [...]

Sometimes, life just takes you to wonderful places. We left the NOFA Conference and segued into our summer vacation: visiting friends and enjoying some down time in the great state of VT. I decided to pick up some raw milk at a farm along the way-well, slightly off the beaten path. This required us to [...]

I went to the 2008 NOFA Conference as an eater, not a farmer. My expectations ran the gamut until ultimately, I’m not sure exactly what I was expecting at all. Some questions I had were: Would it be boring? Would it be aimed at specifically at farmers? Could a small gardener/big eater glean enough to [...]