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Cricket Bread – Trace Ramsey
What is Cricket Bread?
Bread made from crickets is a survival food in many places, a staple in others and a disgusting concoction in the "civilized" world. The discussion presented here details how I jump in between each of those cultures, destroying certain pieces as needed.
This is also a discussion about starting a farm, the do-it-yourself lifestyle, being an anarchist and how the interactions I engage in promote community, friendship and mutual aid.
I am a small drip of New Blood in the Old Body...
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Category Archives: 100 mile diet
Short and sweet
I just finished a long day at work, and I was really ready to get out and get home. The customers just kept coming and coming with no real let up. As I was putting out the last blueberry case … Continue reading
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Working off a CSA share
Money is kind of tight these days. I just spent a couple hundred dollars on cover crop seed for the farm in Silk Hope, and another hundred or so on farm tools. Add to that the need to save up … Continue reading
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Feedback loop
About a month ago, the Tidal Creek newsletter started showing up in co-op owners’ mailboxes. Included in the newsletter was the press release about the Co-op Month contest as well as a reprint of my post on foraging pecans. … Continue reading
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Upside down turkey
This past week the store started carrying meat from Rainbow Meadow Farms, a family farm right at the 100 mile mark in Snow Hill, NC. The first delivery consisted of a dozen pastured turkeys. I brought home a fourteen pounder … Continue reading
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Visit to Oakley Laurel farm – CSA
During the summer I signed up for a fall/winter Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) subscription run by Robb Prichard. The CSA is small with four members this season. Robb is just getting started with the project and wants to keep things … Continue reading
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Slippage confession
Confessionals are somewhat easy for me to write; they make up a lot of what I write in my zine Quitter. I take the concept of Cricket Bread very seriously, but I have found that there are certain food items … Continue reading
Posted in 100 mile diet, food sources, scavenging
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Catching bluefish
It has been almost twenty years since I intentionally killed anything besides a plant in order to eat it. Yesterday, as a matter of addressing the one-half of my 100 mile food radius that encompasses only ocean, I ventured to … Continue reading
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Borrowing the seasons
For the Cricket Bread project, the question “why?” could be a very common one, but I really have not had to answer it. No one has asked me, and I find that very interesting. To answer the question though, my … Continue reading
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Foraging in Wilmington Part One – Background
My grandfather and I used to eat tomato and dandelion flower sandwiches in the summer – white bread out of a bag, a fresh garden tomato and a handful of recently opened yellow dandelion flowers squished together with some mayonnaise … 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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