slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: Slow Food
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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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Oakleaf lettuce, amish deer tongue lettuce, beet greens, and broccoli
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Today’s harvest is radishes and peas. And spinach, but I ate that before I took this picture! I love to eat these peas raw. I don’t grow enough to have for a whole pot, just enough in waves so that I can have snacks in the garden as I work. Why did I ever cook…
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Here is an excerpt from an article being written for the Permaculture Activist by Robert Waldrop (of the Better Times Almanac, a wonderful publication) on “Kitchen Permaculture.” This was sent to me via the Slow Food DC mailing list, via Robert’s email to the Terramadre mailing list. It speaks to the heart of what I…
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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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Today, Barbara demo’ed a landscape outside, which was very nice but I got restless. It is very distracting for me to be around rocks. I kept sneaking large pebbles into my fanny pack and pockets. Don’t know why I feel so secretive about this compulsion. But I went back after lunch and gathered quite a…
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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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I really enjoyed the slow food potluck we had at the Montessori School today. It was a good sized crowd – about 30-35 people – not so many to be overwhelming but enough to get a nice diversity of ages and interests. The food was great, but it was curious…there was not one single dessert!…
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