This month at Kitchen Stewardship the Monday Missions will help you to get busy getting local with your foods in various ways.
Local foods use less petroleum/fossil fuels to get from field to table, often have more nutrients because they are fresher, and have the added economic benefit of keeping your dollars in your community, supporting local farmers.
We’ll talk big items like eggs and milk and the basic Farmer’s Market fare produce as well. The schedule of Go Local! events will include:
- Mission: Upgrade your Eggs
- Egg Carton Vocabulary: How to Decipher the words on the Box
- Real Gardening vs. American Lawncare
- Michael Pollan answers: can a pastoral model feed the world?
- Mission: Milk
- What Kind of Milk Should we Buy?
- The Real Story on Homogenized Milk and Oxidized Cholesterol
- Mission: Buy Local
- How do you get your Garlic Fix?
- 10 Questions to Ask Your Farmer
- Local Grand Rapids Resources list
Don’t forget the Organic Gardening series from Rene at Budget Saving Mom and the Soaking Grains Exploration are both ongoing as well! Hopefully next week or the week after, we can launch the Excalibur dehydrator giveaway, and I’ll share my latest mad scientist experiments with that new toy machine.
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Thanks to Ron1478 for the photo!
This summer marks the first time in my 22 years of existence that I have personally purchased local food. Going to farmers market and building relationships is an unbelievable experience. I feel so blessed over the fact that I am in this kind of world at such a young age!!
.-= Primal Toad´s last blog ..What Is The #1 Thing You Are Grateful For? For Me, It’s Life =-.
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This is a really great, eye-opening challenge. Have you read the 100 mile diet book by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon? I saw this as a challenge TV show on the Planet Green channel. This got me thinking about where our food comes from, seasonality, and how processed our foods really are. I don’t know if I could successfully do this challenge, but I do know, I am foregoing the Chilean grapes in favor of farmer’s market blueberries. It is really a paradigm switch to realize that we don’t “deserve” to eat anything when ever we please, even if we have to cash to do so. Our earth deserves to be cared for, and eating locally is probably better for our bodies too.
I can’t wait to tune in to your series.
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I am very excited about this series! We’ve started to hit up the farmer’s market in our area and as I’m reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle right now, I’m learning so much about eating locally.
.-= Greta @ Mom Living Healthy´s last blog ..This Week’s Menu Plan =-.
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Yay, this is my kind of challenge!
.-= Wendy´s last blog ..Food & Faith Challenge: Fair Trade =-.
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Is the “Real Gardening vs. American Lawncare” link supposed to be working? I can click it, but it takes me to the egg article…
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Katie Reply:
June 9th, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Dave,
Katie
Not sure how I managed to do that, but it’s up now with Wednesday’s post. Thanks!
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Yay for this challenge! You are such an inspiration and I love all I learn from reading your blog
.-= Sarah @ Mum In Bloom´s last blog ..Recipe: BBQ Chicken with Homemade Sauce & Steakfries =-.
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Thanks for this! It’s really helping me rethink my eating life.
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What a great series! I am getting so much out of it already!
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Awesome series! Thanks so much for all the great content. This one is completely up my alley!
.-= Heather@locavoreintraining´s last blog ..Drowning in Local Produce =-.
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We’ve been loving our farmers market for several years now. We get our beef across the road and just last week began milking our own goat. We drink the milk, and make yogurt. Hope to try cheese soon! Ya can’t get more local than my own back yard.
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Hey Katie! Can I link this post on my blog? I wasn’t sure what your policies on that were. I would love to get this out for those of my readers that aren’t already followers of yours!
Thanks…Aleisha @ Whole Family Project
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Katie Reply:
July 8th, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Aleisha,
Katie
Sorry I didn’t get to this answer right away. Absolutely, link away. One never has to ask permission to link to someone, because only good things can come from links. Quoting directly, maybe a request is in order. Thanks for the compliment!
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