Wouldn’t it be nice if all our food products could be trusted to have been BOTH sustainably and organically produced? Many times, they are. But the two terms are not interchangable, as this helpful article from The Sustainable Table shows. (Hat tip to Lawrence London of the soon-to-be launched Permaculture Piedmont NC blog for reminding…

If you have been reading my posts about the organic controversy, you might think that I’m upset because I buy only 100% organic food. No, I’m not an organic zealot. I’m upset because I don’t like dishonesty, and we have to protect our food supply from the further influence of big ag and big food,…

My partner and I went to Floyd, Virginia on Saturday to a Slow Food event called “A Taste of Floyd.” After tasting samples of delicious local foods and wines from Villa Appalachia and AmRhein, you could then go inside a wonderful store/gallery/cafe, Harvest Moon, and purchase the items of your choice. There was music and…

101. When I eat at my mama’s house, I usually have more butterbeans for dessert. That concludes “Butterbean Week” at …slowly she turned.

I have six cats that are like children to me. My husband is my seventh child. We enjoy being children together. I am typing this on a ten-year-old computer that I am too stubborn to give up. I snarled at my husband when he replaced the 15″ monitor with a 17″ monitor. I have been…

When I went to the Piedmont Triad Bloggers meet-up last month, I was thrilled when a couple of people immediately picked up on where I got the title for my blog. You see, I was looking for something a little punny that started with the word “slow,” because of my fascination with the Slow Food…

(stolen with permission from Things I Hate about my Flatmate) Here are several miscellananeous thoughts that need to get out of my head for the week. Sandy and I are heading to Lake Waccamaw tonight to spend the weekend with my sister, brother-in-law, and 4-year-old great nephew. I’ve been working on a piece about Lake…