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As of 3:30pm on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, Food Inc. has had a response of 963 people that agree with their statement: “Let’s thank all the farmers for our Thanksgiving meals!” on their Facebook page (and this is only after being up for 46 minutes!). Pretty nice! Here’s Food, Inc., FB page [...] Thought I’d take a picture of a beautiful tomato I got from the garden. The colors in the picture just don’t do it justice. Can’t remember what variety this one is. Some interesting vein-like structures in the center, in varying shades of reds and pinks. This summer I’ve actually ended up with more [...] Just thought I’d share a picture of some really beautiful chicken eggs we got from a local farmer. They had a really wide range of colors this time. Everything from the standard white (yawn) to white-specked-on-brown and dark-brown-spots-on-tan, as well a couple blue-green tinted ones. These looked almost too good to crack! [...] A nice little video by USC Canada on how our food has changed for the worse over the last 50 years: You can see the original at YouTube here. Here’s three resources for those of us into local food issues: This is NEW (northeast Wisconsin) Food Shed Organization. Their motto is: “Connecting Consumers with Providers of Sustainably Grown and Produced Agricultural Products in Northeastern Wisconsin”. They put out the Farm Fresh Atlas for 5 regions of Wisconsin, an annual publication for local [...] Anybody interested in finding out more about starting an ordinance in Appleton, WI on having urban chickens? There’s a very informal meeting at Harmony Cafe this Thursday (3/31/11 I believe) at 4pm to get a feel for who’s all interested. Right now the city of Appleton has an ordinance on the books prohibiting [...] |
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