Category: Local food - Page 3

Big city garden

23 Feb 202224 May 2012 by Mike (tfb)

My first visit to a big city community garden: FANTASTIC! I was happily startled by the energy flowing out of all those tiny, densely packed, hand-built, trellised plots, even though the garden was largely empty when I dropped by. A … Read the rest

Improbably early corn!

26 Feb 20165 May 2012 by Mike (tfb)

Fresh sweet corn at the beginning of May?! Wow, it’s a miracle! After a period of mild outrage when I first started tiny farming, as it sunk in how far and in what conditions most of our fresh food travels, … Read the rest

Beef and eggplant stew!

7 Dec 201123 Nov 2011 by Mike (tfb)

Another in my series of possibly-not-so-appetizing photos of oh-so-delicious food. Local food. Ingredients either grown by me or gotten from those who did. I still find knowing where your food comes from endlessly satisfying, it doesn’t get old. Anyhow, without … Read the rest

More local food, cooking!

26 Dec 201128 Sep 2011 by Mike (tfb)

Local beef sausage and garden veg, cooking

OK, perhaps not the MOST appetizing of food photos, but the point is, that’s how it looked, and it tasted great—more all-local, dead-simple cookery! Here we have my first time with this grass-feed beef honey garlic sausage from a few … Read the rest

Simple stew

21 Sep 20112 Sep 2011 by Mike (tfb)

In the end, this is all about food and eating. Tonight, back to basics: heat applied to simple, locally grown ingredients, no culinary art or even a favorite recipe, just some mellow cooking. In the pot: grass-fed beef from a … Read the rest

Front yard farming!

3 Feb 20225 Dec 2009 by Mike (tfb)

Often heard about, never before seen first-hand, this is front-yard tiny farming in action—late fall edition. I’m at the home of Andrew and Sue and Margo, in a town of 70,000, leaning on the front porch rail on a residential … Read the rest

Eat good food

3 Feb 202226 Sep 2009 by Mike (tfb)

We’ve been faithfully bringing the matching pair of chalkboards to the farmers’ market since we bought them at an office supply box store in mid-summer, but it’s what to put on ’em that’s the puzzle. Today’s new message: “Eat good … Read the rest