Sustainable OKC and Individual Artists of Oklahoma are hosting EVOLVE, a juried art exhibition focusing on representations of sustainability, resiliency, and community. Saturday night is the opening reception, and as part of the festivities, there will be a local food challenge between six big shots in OKC’s food-loving community: 105degrees Chef Kurt Fleischfresser Chef Kamala [...]
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Local Food + Local Art
Posted in Community, Events on April 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Living Kitchen
Posted in Community, Eating Out, Events, Farming/Ranching on November 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
We went to a Living Kitchen Chowdown in early October. The chowdowns are a casual alternative to their farm table dinners, which we went to last summer. Here’s a lovely hen in an old school bus-turned-chicken house. I got photos of the farm animals and the humans, but not the food. It was a delicious [...]
Stuffing/Dressing
Posted in Community, Reading and Research on October 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tell me more about your dressing: do you include boiled eggs, giblets, seafood, nuts? In your mind, what are the regional variations in stuffing ingredients? Even though I know the distinction between stuffing and dressing, I still find myself using the terms interchangeably. Is that a southern thing? Or perhaps it’s a product of the [...]
Out of pocket
Posted in Community, In the News on July 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I am going on summer vacation! Luckily I know I’m leaving my garden in great hands. The cucumbers are still producing like mad, though they are getting yellow-tinted at an earlier stage. I’m guessing it’s a result of the onset of heat in the past few days. The okra is looking promising. Though, I’ve never [...]
Wineglasses
Posted in Beer and Wine, Community, Media on June 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Check out this segment from The Splendid Table and never again fret over a broken wineglass or postpone celebrations. Photo by dhamzza
Ready! Set! Garden!
Posted in Community, Events, Garden, Local on March 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This is the story of what happened when 30 strangers gathered to learn, ponder, feast, and build a garden on a beautiful Saturday in late February. Randy Marks and Ron Ferrell led the hopeful gardeners attending the Sustainable OKC workshop, which happened to be in our yard. They started us off with an exercise: we [...]
Chicken Brigade
Posted in Community, Events, Local, Meat on October 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
People met in a parking lot this afternoon to pick up their birds. A volunteer-led effort has helped a new Oklahoma chicken processor get a good start by selling 1,300 processed chickens in four days. The processing plant’s success is key to regional, small-scale food security since it 1) is in Oklahoma and 2) is [...]
A Mother-Clucker of a Deal!
Posted in Community, Events, Local, Meat on October 2, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Let me break my blogging dry-spell by sharing this great deal! This information comes from an email I received earlier today: A new small-scale chicken processor just got their USDA certification and are busy processing birds. This processor also raises birds a few miles from the processing location north of Tahlequah. These birds are housed at [...]
Living Kitchen
Posted in Community, Eating Out, Events, Local, Travel on July 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Have you heard of the Living Kitchen Farm & Dairy in Bristow? Around here it’s known as “the farm that makes people cry,” since Chelsey and I both got misty-eyed when we first read about it. It just seems like a dream: growing and cooking and hosting—all at your homey home. Conventional wisdom taught Lisa [...]
Local Food Fair
Posted in Community, Events, Local on July 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Just got in from the Local Food Fair at the Harn Homestead. I have to say, it was refreshing to see so much mingling of interests. It was a brilliant convergence of ranchers, farmers, and producers; hungry consumers; Transition Town; Oklahoma Food Co-op; Buy Fresh, Buy Local; Sierra Club; Kerr Center for Sustainable Ag on [...]
