Is this the co-opting of “local” or just a really broad interpretation? My recent encounter in Oklahoma City with this “locally grown” jar of roasted bell peppers from Napa Valley caused me to revisit this fantastic article from last May, which explores the angles and issues with the “local” label. Mezzetta, Frito Lay, and others [...]
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Laughable Labels
Posted in Agriculture, Big Food, In the News, Local, Media on April 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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 | 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cornmeal Cobbler
Posted in Bread, Local, Recipe, Sweets on July 5, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Sweet cornbread baked on fruit. Brilliant! If everything goes right, Ressler Farms will sell cornmeal through the Oklahoma Food Co-op. When I met Larry Ressler in February, he asked about unmet demand in the co-op. I immediately thought of cornmeal. Someone used to make it—I can’t remember who—but it’s not available anymore. Well, there’s hull-less [...]
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, [...]
Recent Meals
Posted in Bread, Local, Meat, Soup/Stew on May 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I get food as payment for my new internship. Delicious, fresh, glorious food. Last Thursday I left with arugula, asparagus, spinach, chard, and parsnip soup. Here’s what I did with some of it: I made arugula pesto. I used my mini food processor to chop the arugula to bits, then I mixed in chopped pine [...]
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