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“Sometimes” food: Talking to kids about eating well

by Erika aka Omniwhore @ Saturday, October 21st, 2006.

Dairy Queen and I were recently talking about the delicateness of conveying Ethicurean views to friends who are not as focused on their food. We don’t, after all, want to be pushy or preachy.
In a sense, this is part of a larger anxiety in America right now about sincerity. Politically and spiritually, the climate is […]

Pepper has a Southern drawl

by Erika aka Omniwhore @ Wednesday, September 13th, 2006.

“No animal understands its relationship to the farmer like a cow does.” Chickenman and I are walking Pepper back to the pasture — she hopped the fence in order to be near her calf, Creampuff, who was at a neighbor’s house. All night long they were mooing at each other. When asked why Creampuff ran […]

Capsicum lately

by Erika aka Omniwhore @ Wednesday, September 6th, 2006.

I snagged these gorgeous peppers from Scott Arbor Farm, a family farm located in Seguin, about 50 miles south of Austin. I always make a beeline to their stand at the downtown Austin Farmer’s Market. According to their website, they have been farming organically at the same location for 32 years. They were organic when […]

Locavore Resources in the Puget Sound

by Butter Bitch @ Saturday, August 19th, 2006.

Earlier this week, Man of La Muncha and I met up with Jenni and Lisa, two of the co-founders of our meat CSA (meat countdown T minus 22 days!) to talk about our reactions to reading Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma. We discussed our shifts in thinking and how eating sustainably, organically, locally, and […]

Tomatoh, Tomatow

by Miss Steak @ Tuesday, August 1st, 2006.

It was going to be the quintessential blog posting.
Sir Loin and I were set to spend the whole weekend up at the house of Madame La Vache (otherwise known as the grandmother of Miss Steak). This other blog entry I was going to write fell through, so I thought, well, Madame La Vache has […]

Calling all Seattle carnivores!

by JC Costello aka Man of La Muncha @ Wednesday, July 19th, 2006.

Put your money where your steak knife is!
The Montlake Meat group is looking for additional members, according to our reader (and Montlake Meat book maven) Jenni. She also reminded us that we’ve been tardy about sending in our order form. Eep. (I hope she believes the excuse that it was too stained […]

Chicks Dig Me…and I Dig Them Back

by Erika aka Omniwhore @ Wednesday, July 19th, 2006.

Farming is hard.
And I have a feeling Chickenman is going easy on me.
Omnichores:
Shoveling the wood chips out of the brooder house to get ready for the imminent hatching of the chicks.
The brooder house hasn’t been used for a long, long time, except by scorpions and geckos, and really big black spiders. Oddly, the more I’m […]

Get on your mucking boots: Fordhall Farm Saved!

by JC Costello aka Man of La Muncha @ Friday, June 30th, 2006.

Fordhall Community Land Initiative announced their success in raising enough funds to buy the farm and set it aside for use as an organic farm, wildlife preserve, and community resource. As noted earlier in the week, the Fordhall is a landmark British organic farm whose tenants needed £800,000 to buy the land and save […]

Lovely Muck: Saving a Shropshire Farm

by JC Costello aka Man of La Muncha @ Tuesday, June 27th, 2006.

During our daily review of news sites for our digest, Dairy Queen discovered that two siblings are selling shares to save their father’s organic farm in England. The farm is in north Shropshire, a county made famous by the poems of A. E. Housman, and it has followed organic practices for over 50 years. […]

Eating Locally - the New Cool

by Butter Bitch @ Friday, June 9th, 2006.

I’ve been attending a conference in the arid Southwest this week, and as a result have been reading USA Today, a newspaper I never really look at. But, lo and behold, on page 5D of today’s Life section, there’s an article about a couple in Vancouver, British Columbia who decided last year to spend […]

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