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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Ready! Set! Garden!
Posted in Community, Events, Garden, Local on March 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Speaking of indoctrination…
Posted in Events, Health, Media, Reading and Research, Status Quo on September 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Don’t ya just love all this “indoctrination” talk stirred up because—gasp!—the President seeks to directly engage schoolchildren? Let us focus on some legitimate indoctrination: “By the year 2000, the Centers for Disease Control estimated that one in five schools participating in the National School Lunch Program had brand-name fast foods in their lunchrooms.” —School Lunch [...]
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 [...]
I need to share.
Posted in Events, Media on June 14, 2009 | 11 Comments »
I’m in San Francisco for a work-related conference. Food has been a nice diversion from the sometimes-dry subject of legislative redistricting. I’ve been eating some great food—more on that later. And I got to see Food, Inc. in its limited release. Amazing. It covered a lot of ground— mainly reinforcing things I already new a [...]
Wild Food Walk
Posted in Events, Experimenting, Local on June 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A couple weeks ago I went on a wild-food walk near Coyle, Oklahoma. The rain let up enough for our hard-core group (or just hard-core nerds) to pile into the back of a 4×4 pick-up to hunt pokeweed, lamb’s quarters, ramps, mushrooms, yarrow, mullein, horsetail, yucca, river reed, heals-all, and Iowa sage. After the walk, [...]
Oklahoma Arts and Crafts
Posted in Events, Local on October 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hey, Oklavores! Support that Okie DIY spirit and check out Deluxe—an indie craft bazaar—on December 6th at the Farmers’ Public Market. It’s hosted by the OKEtsy Street Team and House of Craft. And oh-my-gosh, it’s going to be so awesome! Crafty ones: get busy and fill out an application to book a booth. Applications are [...]
Food for Thought
Posted in Big Food, Eating Out, Events, In the News on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last night was Green Drinks at Trattoria il Centro (beware of the music on the Trattoria site). This time we learned a bit about permaculture and organic gardening in Oklahoma. There was also a seed exchange; I traded purple coneflower seeds for an awesome book on off-grid living and some cucumber, cherry tomato, and cinnamon [...]
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