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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 [...]

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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

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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 [...]

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Chicken Brigade

Posted in Community, Events, Local, Meat on October 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Craigslist Magic

Posted in Community, Local, Tomatoes on July 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Trading on craigslist turns this: Into this: 8 pounds of tomatoes! I traded Lazy Day Farm (on Seward Road, 1.5 miles east of I-35 near Guthrie) the massive amount of pots I’ve accumulated for eight pounds of tomatoes. I had no idea she was going to give me so many! I’m going to make gazpacho [...]

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Gardening in the Concrete Jungle

Posted in Community, Garden, Travel on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

While I was attending a conference in San Francisco I happened across this oasis one night on my way back to the hotel from a restaurant. My feet were killing me and I was sleep-deprived, so I told myself I would come back and explore. I’m so glad I did. I was full of superlatives [...]

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