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This Week's Farmshare: Thanksgiving Ready!

Posted in Local Food, Recipes, Sustainable, Television, Twin Cities on Mon, 11/23/2009 - 1:37pm by lee -

Now that our Harmony Valley farmshare deliveries have slowed to just once every 2 weeks, I get especially excited when they come. Any lover of tasty soup recipes will tell you that you can never have too many root vegetables, too much squash, or too much garlic. And this week being the start of Thanksgiving ... well, let's just say I'm grateful once again for fresh, locally grown sweet potatoes to put beneath mountains of marshmallows and brown sugar.

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Progress on Our Backyard Farm

Posted in Television, Sustainable, Organic Food, Local Food, Activities on Sat, 08/01/2009 - 12:29pm by lee -

I've written glowingly about the past about A Backyard Farm, a company started by Joan James and Coleen Gregor this summer to help people construct, start, and farm raised beds on their own yards (You can read my previous post on A Backyard Farm here), so I decided it's time to update you on our garden's progress, and our experience with Joan and Coleen. Here goes:

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This Week's Farmshare Bounty

Posted in Activities, Books, Local Food, Television, United Kingdom on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 1:40pm by lee -

csa33A quick look at what's coming in my CSA box this week, along with ideas from Harmony Valley Farm on what to do with it all. This content comes directly from the Harmony Valley newsletter:

  • Asparagus - Make a quick and delicious cream of asparagus soup by boiling asparagus until bright green and tender, pureeing in a blender along with its cooking water, and stirring in shredded Swiss cheese, cooked bacon crumbles, salt and pepper. Cook just until heated through and serve immediately.
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Food Network Canada's 100 Mile Challenge

Posted in Television, Sustainable, Local Food, Canada on Tue, 03/31/2009 - 11:43pm by lee -

100-miles I knew that once I started writing about local food, the movement was well beyond its tipping point. What I didn't know was that Canada's Food Network was planning its own new reality show called The 100 Mile Challenge. From their website: The 100 Mile Challenge challenges six families to survive for 100 days on food that originates within a 100 mile radius of their home. Through intimate, often funny, sometimes painful, always entertaining, personal stories, we'll witness exactly what happens when this extraordinary food-focused experiment unfolds.

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