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City girl gets her hands dirty planting an edible garden and raising urban chickens

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Entries Tagged as 'localvore'

Park Slope Food Coop

December 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments

I had the pleasure of discovering the Park Slope Food Coop the other day located here in Brooklyn, just a short walk from Jay’s apartment. It is one of the oldest and largest food coops in the nation, boasting over 12,000 members and established in 1973. What a treat to find a haven of organic, [...]

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Tags: cooking · green action · localvore · traveling

Turkey Day

November 24th, 2009 · 4 Comments

As millions of Americans spent their weekend crammed into the grocery store stocking up for Thanksgiving, I was hanging out on a nearby farm for turkey-butchering day. Some people would find that odd, while to others the thought of buying a factory-farmed, hormone-pumped frozen bird wrapped in plastic for $1 a pound - something that [...]

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Tags: cooking · farmers market · green action · localvore · recipes

Harvesting January

January 28th, 2009 · No Comments

Everything outside is either dead or sleeping (well, except the chickens of course), but we are nowhere near empty here on our little urban homestead. The last year of canning, drying, freezing and cold storage has left us with tons of options still for eating local, organic produce. I wanted to share just a couple [...]

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Tags: canning · cooking · farmers market · food forest · food preservation · localvore · recipes · urban homesteading

Last Canning

October 8th, 2008 · 9 Comments

Our poor, decrepit car finally went to the big junkyard in the sky, but that didn’t stop me from picking more tomatoes at a local farm this weekend. I was quite determined to make one huge batch of tomato sauce before the end of the canning season. I hopped on my scooter and made it [...]

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Tags: canning · cooking · food preservation · localvore · recipes · u-pick

Buying 1/4 of a Cow

September 22nd, 2008 · 5 Comments

Typically we are selective about where we purchase our beef. This isn’t meant to come across as a lecture to people who are not concerned with how their meat was raised, but we choose to be more involved in this area. Things like being grass-fed on pasture, no antibiotics, no hormones, etc. are all important [...]

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Tags: cooking · farmers market · localvore