Hey hey it’s curry time. I was inspired by the contents of the CSA this week which were: a head of cauliflower and about two cups of fresh peas! Stellar. Whenever I see cauliflower and peas together, my mind instantly runs to curry. Curried cauliflower is (to me) a classic way to eat the white … More CSA Friday 5: Solstice Curry
Milk is not technically a part of my CSA, but I learned that one of the few raw dairies in the Front Range makes it products available at the 63rd Street Farm on Thursdays. The veggies in the CSA this week inspired me to do some Indian style cooking, and so I set out in search of … More CSA Friday 4: Paneer
Firstly, I’d like to direct you to THIS TEDx talk from 2012. If you have the time, please do watch the talk. Jayson Lusk is a professor and agricultural economist at Oklahoma State University and has authored many books about food, technology, and the benefits of the industrial food system. I’ve read that Dr. Lusk … More Let’s Talk About Paradigms
Bok choy, the asian vegetable that may have many people scratching their heads- until they taste the deliciousness of this black sheep of the brassica family. That’s right; brassica. That means that it’s relatives include the likes of broccoli, cabbage, kale, and brussel sprouts, or, as I like to call them, the fart veggies. The fart … More CSA Friday 3: Bok Choy
To all of those who are in college or simply elect to be paid ten dollars an hour for the pure joy of working outside and fostering love of the natural world in the next generation, I salute you. … More There Is No Sleep Like the Sleep of a Camp Counselor
Permaculture Design Principle: Produce No Waste. When you have an extra bit of vegetable matter such a the tops of radishes, turnips, carrots, etc., it’s always important to remember that these things can still be eaten! There are hard-earned vitamins and minerals in those leaves. Those little plants spend weeks photosynthesizing their hearts out through … More CSA Friday 2: Turnip Leaf Pesto
‘Tis the season for a return on an investment- that’s right, it’s growing season and farmers supported by CSAs are churnin’ out the good stuff. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a relatively new phenomenon (<40 years) brought on by the alternative food movement of the 1980s wherein a farmer is able to elicit one time … More CSA Friday 1
It was a common story around my house growing up, the story of Mom, Dad, and Rob. I’m sure I’ll get some of these details wrong, but according to my memory of the story, Mom and Dad found Rob at the base of the big old spruce tree that used to grow in the middle … More American Robins: The Heroes We All Need
I’m going to be a bit brief today and just tell you about a fantastic person whom I had the great opportunity to see and hear last week, and she is Jessamyn Stanley. To quote directly from her site, Jessamyn “…is a yoga teacher, body positivity advocate, and writer based in Durham, North Carolina.” In the … More Just in Case You Don’t Know About Jessamyn Stanley
I’m going to try to keep this as simple as possible, which may or may not serve this complicated debate. I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the various types of seeds humans have been using in agriculture for a long time. I hope that helped to explain why GMO seeds are set apart … More The Sticky GMOs (Discussion Part II)
