Tomorrow come see The Greenhorns at the IAO Gallery in OKC. The documentary film offers a peek into the world of inexperienced farmers — their triumphs, motivations, challenges, and insights. We’re going to start with a potluck, so bring a dish to share, plus your plate, cup, and flatware. As it goes with these types [...]
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The Greenhorns in OKC
Posted in Events on June 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Local Food + Local Art
Posted in Community, Events on April 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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