slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: Local food
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I posted my personal goals for the May 2006 Eat Local Challenge a few weeks ago. Now that I’ve had a little more time to mull these over, I’ve tweaked and refined them. Goal: To eat food produced within 100 miles as much as possible, then extend the range to food raised, produced, or caught…
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Through several of the blogs on my new “Local Motive” blog roll, I learned of the Eat Local Challenge. Last August, a group from the San Francisco Bay area called themselves the Locavores and issued this challenge to whoever chose to take it up: For one month, set a goal to eat within a 100…
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Yesterday I had my first experience with buying poultry directly from a local farmer. Back Woods Family Farm operates out of Sophia, N.C. and sells organic vegetables, free-range chicken, and pasture-raised pork at a booth at the Greensboro Farmer’s Curb Market. Their land has been farmed by family members since 1858! At first I put…
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The News & Record reports on the new certification program for local produce in Wednesday’s edition: Farmers apply for certification. Excerpt: “There are folks who will run down to a wholesaling warehouse, repackage produce in folksy-looking straw baskets and hawk it as home-grown. “How to tell the difference between home-grown and hornswoggle? “That may be…
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We had our second official Slow Food event at the Adriatic (soon to be renamed Zaytoon) restaurant this afternoon. Masoud and Anna prepared an assortment of appetizers and entrees for approximately 50 people, and it was delicious. They have an appetizer that they also sell at the farmers market called the Number 9. These are…
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I’m sitting here tonight, eating boiled peanuts out of a plastic bag that I bought at a gas station just outside of Marietta, N.C. It has a brand name on the bag. This is bizarre. And also not so good. My godfather, Mr. Wade Page, used to grow peanuts and boil batches of them. They…
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Sandy and I drove down to see my mother for Mother’s Day in Marietta, N.C. Whenever I tell people I’m from Marietta, N.C., they never hear or read the N.C. part. They always think I’m talking about Georgia. It’s on the north side of the North/South Carolina line in Robeson County. We’re talking sand and…
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Sandy impregnates a log Today, Sandy and I went to Dark Hollow Farm, an organic farm that specializes in growing mushrooms, for their mushroom inoculation day. We learned how to grow shiitake mushooms. It really seems very easy to do – the hard part would be getting the freshly cut logs at the right time…
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