slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: Slow Food
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Oh puh-leeze. It only got up to 99 in zip code 27401. What was all that fuss about? Hey, the cherry picking turned out to be pleasant, but I think that we did good in limiting the amount of time we spent there this afternoon. For one thing, Sandy and I picked $72 worth of…
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Hot. hot… hot hot hot. HOT. And humid. When it gets this hot here, it ain’t like out West. Here you suffer before you DIE of MISERY. When I was 13, I went out to southern California and spent a week with my aunt in July. It was just as hot as here, but it…
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Well, the cherry picking is still on for Sunday. We’re just going to make it a shorter event. It will be just as hot, because I can’t schedule it for early in the morning or after five, but we’ll plan to get there around 3:30 for about an hour of picking, pay up, and hopefully…
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Here are the first two small tapestries of a series of four. This is “Earth” and “Fire.” Guess what the other two will be! I took a piece of the cardboard box that I used for my tapestry bag and decided to work that part of the design in different colors. The loom is just…
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Our Slow Food convivium is starting a regular potluck night on the last Sunday of every month, and last night was the first one. If you have never been to a Slow Food potluck, hoo boy, is that some good eating! There is always an assortment of people with all kinds of interests, so when…
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Last Saturday I went to the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association conference in Durham with Charlie and Walter. The workshops were interesting, for the most part, but I heard that I missed a couple of really great ones that had to do with edible schoolyards and youth projects. I enjoyed the one with Cricket Rakita about…
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NORTH CAROLINA RAW MILK ACTION ALERT From Ruth Ann Foster Greensboro, NC Chapter Leader and Raw Milk Coordinator October 19, 2007 BACKGROUND On September 7, 2007, the NC Board of the Department of Agriculture (NCDA) adopted a rule requiring the addition of a charcoal colored dye be added to all raw milk sold as pet…
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Oh, how I love Slow Food. The dinner last night with Carlo Petrini, Erika Lesser, and other North Carolina Slow Food leaders just confirmed my already warm and fuzzy feelings for this organization. I’m not an “organization” person. I’m a loner, and usually I prefer nothing more than a cool afternoon weeding my garden, or…
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Today I received my 15 minutes of celebri-tay at the News and Record, our regional newspaper. Katie Reetz and Jerry Wolford did a terrific job on the article and photographs, which appeared on the front of the “Savor” section. Jerry even braved the mosquitoes in the shady morning back forty to take a great photo…
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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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