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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: foodshed
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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Quick pickled beets
Robb has been including a fair amount of beets in the CSA boxes, so I have been saving them up to make one big dish instead of using them up individually. After a lifetime of turning up her nose at … 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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Shepherd’s pie
Back in November, I had some Shepherd’s (Shepard’s) Pie off the hot bar at Chatham Marketplace. It was pretty much the most amazing thing I have ever eaten…that contained meat. I emailed their chef to get the recipe, but he … Continue reading
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Beef and cabbage stew
I used to make the best vegan seitan stew, modified from several recipes I used to use for regular beef stew. Now that I am back to being an omnivore, I was looking to make a more seasonal … 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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Sometimes you come home with an empty bucket
Sunburn, parking ticket, no fish…if our previous fishing adventure was a lesson in all the things that can go right, the latest attempt was a lesson in the things that can go wrong. Not that it was a bad … Continue reading
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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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Jujube fruit and random visits
Wednesday morning is usually when I expect a “random” visit from Belle and John Shisko, an older farming couple who bring me various things like kale, garlic and jalapeno peppers to sell at the store. Originally from Brooklyn, they bought … Continue reading
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Visit to Black River Organic Farm
Ivanhoe, NC, population 311, doesn’t have much of a downtown scene or a place to get an organic fair trade hot chocolate or even one of those traffic light things, but it does have Black River Organic Farm. The … Continue reading
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