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Salad box planning

6 Dec 20183 Jun 2013 by Mike (tfb)
Planning session

Rise of the Salad Box: First meeting, with Rochelle and artist Shannon, on design details for our salad box project. Yes, it’s simple coolers, to be converted into standalone salad dispensers, with an honor system cash box and helpful signage … Read the rest

Categories Local food, Market & Stand, People, Planning, Tools Tags Rochelle, salad box, Shannon T, Spring 5 Comments

May salad

23 Feb 202218 May 2013 by Mike (tfb)
May salad

No food styling, just salad! The first grown-this-season greens – romaine, butterhead, oakleaf/salad bowl letuces – picked by raiding half-grown plants for a few leaves apiece. Dinner.… Read the rest

Categories Cooking & Eating, Harvest, Local food, Veggies Tags greens, salad, Spring 5 Comments

Kombucha watching

24 Feb 2013 by Mike (tfb)
Kombucha tea mother (SCOBY)

Not much to look at, right? Wrong! I spent a good FIVE MINUTES staring at the kombucha tea mother, gently swirling and undulating right after being placed in its tea-and-sugar bath, the watching-chickens effect. I like the look of the … Read the rest

Categories Cooking & Eating, Local food Tags fermentation, kombucha tea, Winter 2 Comments

Basic BELT (bacon egg lettuce tomato)

3 Feb 20228 Sep 2012 by Mike (tfb)
Basic bacon-lettuce-tomato plus egg sandwich

More incredibly simple and tasty local food: the basic BELT – bacon egg lettuce tomato – all local except for salt, pepper, butter, and mayo. Bacon from the farmers’ market. Eggs and veg – heirloom tom, second cut baby lettuces … Read the rest

Categories Cooking & Eating, Local food, Veggies Tags eggs, lettuce, meat, Summer, tomato Leave a comment

Empty shelves

8 Dec 202126 May 2012 by Mike (tfb)

OK, so it’s only the result of a really good price on rice cakes, and emptied shelves aren’t unusual during sales. Still, this time, standing in from of them, I suddenly imagined how fast ALL the shelves could empty, and … Read the rest

Categories Local food Tags food supply, sales, supermarket Leave a comment
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2022 right now...

Late June: Fresh veggies have arrived. Lots of different greens are ready to go. Snap peas, green onions and beets starting to size up. LOTS of rain and fairly cool weather for the last couple of weeks. The grass and other plants around the garden perimeter grew so fast, it overwhelmed the electric fence keeping the deer out. And at least one deer took advantage. The grass has been cut, and the deer are once again at bay. Weather-wise, we've moved from rain to humid heat. For the full story, you can start back in January.

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