Monthly Archives: June 2007

Farmer’s market

Local and scavenged produce is filling up the fridge, and ferments of various sizes, dates and smells are taking over the kitchen. There is still a box of cucumbers sitting on the floor, four heads of cabbage waiting to be … Continue reading

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Summer garden gazpacho

Two weeks ago while visiting Noel and Danielle at Black River, I picked up a forty pound box of #2 cucumbers that were going to be composted. According to the North Carolina Cucumber Outline, the grades for cucumbers –   … Continue reading

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Abandoned blueberry farm

A couple years ago I was talking with the grower who supplies spring garden transplants for the co-op. He was telling me about places to get free fruit trees and berry bushes that “just had to be dug up and … Continue reading

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Fruit scrap vinegar

I have identified several food items that I currently use that will need to be replaced, replicated or removed from my diet in the near future. Many of these things are basic condiments such as mayonnaise, ketchup, and mustard, which … Continue reading

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Sour pickles

After not being able to find a local store with local rice, I came home and got to work turning the lemon cucumbers I brought home yesterday from Mack Fleming (A Country Garden – 5 miles) into sour pickles. Here … Continue reading

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Local rice

Of the staples I needed to find or make, I determined that rice was at the top of the list. I thought hundred mile rice would be hard to come by. It turns out that there is a revived plantation … Continue reading

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Saturday morning Farmer’s Market

My friends Noel and Danielle live and work at Black River Organic Farm in Ivanhoe, NC (Sampson County), about 45 miles northwest of my house. The farm is owned and run by Stefan Hartmann, a farmer I have known for … Continue reading

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What is my foodshed?

One hundred miles doesn’t seem like that much, especially when living on the coast. Half of the radius is ocean. I don’t really care for seafood, so that cuts out a lot of my food options. Anyway, my food radius … Continue reading

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Starting the 100 mile diet

The thought of eating nothing but what grows within 100 miles of my home in Wilmington, NC is something I have turned around in my head for quite awhile. Actually putting the local diet into practice would not be the … Continue reading

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