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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: food sources
Southeastern Regional Food Systems meeting
Agricultural output in the counties around Wilmington is based on failing and outdated theories on commodities and land management. We are still basing growing decisions on the plantation monoculture mentality, a model that has borne a cycle of indebtedness, rural … Continue reading
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Rice and Honey
The Stash has lost some more members. The organic yellow mustard is empty, sugar is gone, mayonnaise jar is storing rubber bands and the ketchup is slipping fast. I find that I am adapting easily and really noticing how much … 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
Posted in 100 mile diet, food sources, foraging
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Preserving knowledge
I opened my first jar of homemade vinegar dill pickles, one of the quarts I put up a few weeks ago from the Black River Organic Farm cucumbers. The first pickle out of the jar was nice and crisp, if … Continue reading
Posted in food preservation, food sources, recipes
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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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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
Posted in fermentation, food sources
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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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