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Loca-faces: References and Reads
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Real People Living Locally. Crazy? Here is a list of references and reads associated with local living. Some are blogs, some are sites, some are books, and some are cookbooks. I hope they are useful to you in making your own decisions. I welcome recommendations for things to read! Books to Read and Debate:. About the Food Industry or Nutrition:. By Samuel Fromartz.great expose on the history of the organic industry and the debate surrounding big organic. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. Plenty: One Man, One W...
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Loca-faces: The Real Winter Squash: Blue Hubbard
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Real People Living Locally. Crazy? Sunday, November 27, 2011. The Real Winter Squash: Blue Hubbard. Blue Hubbard Squash in pieces. Roast until soft in oven. What they are missing! You cook Blue Hubbard like Butternut or other winter squashes. Cut them in chunks, scrape out the seeds, and roast the pieces in the oven at 350F for 45 minutes or so. They'll be totally soft and you scrape the skin off to mash the remains. Puree and add ingredients. Wonderful Blue Hubbard Squash pie. My great find this year is...
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Loca-faces: Water Kefir Soda - How Cool is that?!
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Real People Living Locally. Crazy? Tuesday, January 1, 2013. Water Kefir Soda - How Cool is that? A selection of sodas in second ferment. As with dairy kefir, I am not an expert, but i've been reading a ton. Here's the single best site I've found on the Internet in terms of information and presentation: Yemoos Water Kefir Site. The Basi c s. There are a few ways to make natural soda from water kefir grains. We are using the two-step process. A word of caution. I have been measuring the growth of the grai...
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Loca-faces: Cautious Optimism in the Garden
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Real People Living Locally. Crazy? Wednesday, August 1, 2012. Cautious Optimism in the Garden. The acorn squash starts white (rear). This year, the raised compost bed is better. It hasn't outright killed anything. The tomatoes were quite leggy though and don't have much fruit, and they don't look great. I did get a decent set of beans from it, chard continues to grow in it, and there is a single tiny watermelon in development. Keep your fingers crossed! Here the white has turned yellow over about a week&...
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Loca-faces: Science Adventures in a Super Food
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Real People Living Locally. Crazy? Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Science Adventures in a Super Food. After 26 hours of fermenting at 78degF - curdy! Then my friend said, "They sell kefir. I've always wanted to try that. Do you want to share some? I'd heard of kefir, but really had no knowledge of what it really was. I thought it was Indian yogurt (wrong). What the heck, I thought, after all, I'm living out of the box here! Our hopes were dashed in seconds though, when the boy said they had no kefir available.
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Loca-faces: Foraging: It's Time For Wild Chives
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Real People Living Locally. Crazy? Wednesday, April 6, 2011. Foraging: It's Time For Wild Chives. Wild chives emerge in the woods. Wild chives close up - cut them, they smell like onions. Garlic mustard just emerging - this is an invasive culinary herb. Wild asparagus is also coming up soon. I have never harvested it before; it doesn't seem to grown on our property or around us, but it is supposed to be delicious. It is used like cultivated asparagus. Did you know that wild daylilies are edible? Plants c...
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Loca-faces: Foraging: It's Wineberry Season
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Real People Living Locally. Crazy? Friday, July 8, 2011. Foraging: It's Wineberry Season. This is the first week here of wineberry. Pick only dark red and plump berries - like the one far right bottom. The best berries are always just out of reach. And between you and the berries are these thorns! Where there are wineberries, there are wild blackberries. So, how do you use wineberries? Today's harvest - random blackberries included. Toss your berries in sugar and let them sit to extract the juice. For a ...
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Loca-faces: Local chicken and eggs
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Real People Living Locally. Crazy? Saturday, September 25, 2010. Local chicken and eggs. About the same time, our friends Maureen and Mike decided they too would raise chickens. Really? People I knew didn't raise chickens. At least not at the time. But they soon had three layers in the coop they built on the edge of their yard. (Those are the ones in the photo at the top of this entry. ). The first farm we purchased from was Jehovah Jirah. Labels: Ceilidh Meadows Farm. October 27, 2010 at 9:39 AM. 8220;W...
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Loca-faces: January 2013
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Real People Living Locally. Crazy? Tuesday, January 1, 2013. Water Kefir Soda - How Cool is that? A selection of sodas in second ferment. As with dairy kefir, I am not an expert, but i've been reading a ton. Here's the single best site I've found on the Internet in terms of information and presentation: Yemoos Water Kefir Site. The Basi c s. There are a few ways to make natural soda from water kefir grains. We are using the two-step process. A word of caution. I have been measuring the growth of the grai...
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Loca-faces: July 2012
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Real People Living Locally. Crazy? Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Science Adventures in a Super Food. After 26 hours of fermenting at 78degF - curdy! Then my friend said, "They sell kefir. I've always wanted to try that. Do you want to share some? I'd heard of kefir, but really had no knowledge of what it really was. I thought it was Indian yogurt (wrong). What the heck, I thought, after all, I'm living out of the box here! Our hopes were dashed in seconds though, when the boy said they had no kefir available.
