Pin It If you got your garden started off right, you may be harvesting lots of produce about this time. (If you live in the north country, like me, you’re still waiting on most things.) No garden yet? Sometimes it’s still less expensive to purchase a large quantity of produce from a local farmer, especially [...]
Entries Tagged as 'produce'
Organic Gardening Series: Canning Basics for Preserving Summer Produce
July 8th, 2010 · 35 Comments · Organic Gardening
Tags: canning·gardening·organic·preserving vegetables·produce
Monday Mission: Revisiting Super Foods
July 5th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Monday Missions, Super Foods
Pin It Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to focus on what you CAN eat this week instead of what you CAN’T. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps Many KS readers were not around last year when I ran a 15-week series on Super Foods, those foods that pack a nutritional punch [...]
Tags: local·produce·Super Foods
10 Questions to Ask Your Farmer
July 1st, 2010 · 15 Comments · Uncategorized
Pin It Joel Salatin’s said it. Michael Pollan has probably said it. Countless bloggers, locavores, and whole foods enthusiasts have said it. Get to know your farmer. Well. If the instructions were, “Pay your farmer what he’s worth,” or “Read the manual for your new car,” or “Follow the recipe exactly,” it would be easy [...]
Tags: farmer's market·farming·Go Local! Challenge·local·organic·pesticides·produce·sustainability
Monday Mission: Buy Local Produce
June 28th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Monday Missions
Pin ItYour mission, if you choose to accept, is to find something to buy local this month. It’s the fitting end to the Go Local! Challenge. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps Farmer’s Markets across the country are in full swing, and there’s no better time to find a local source for fruits and [...]
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Organic Gardening Series: Natural Pest Control
June 14th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Organic Gardening
Pin ItThey’re coming. They can knock over a whole pepper plant in a single night. They can make Swiss cheese look complete next to the leaves of your green beans. They can put holes in your fruit that will just tick you off as you struggle to cut around them. Rene of Budget Saving Mom [...]
Tags: gardening·natural bug spray·natural pest control·organic·pesticides·produce·slugs
Organic Gardening Series: Genetically Modified Seeds
June 10th, 2010 · 14 Comments · Organic Gardening
Pin ItNo-GMO! The latest in the organic gardening series by Rene of Budget Saving Mom: To save money, we plant our garden from seeds. However, today a seed is not necessarily the type of seed that our grandparents would have planted. Many seeds have been genetically modified, had genes inserted in order to produce plants [...]
The List: What to Eat, What to Avoid, How to Compromise
June 3rd, 2010 · 69 Comments · What to Buy
Pin ItBad. Better. Best. It’s “What to Buy” in three columns. I have been asked more than once to collect all the “avoid this” terms in one place, as well as to make a list of “good foods, bad foods, and compromise foods.” This three-column list is my attempt to meet these needs. You’ll find [...]
