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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: scavenging
Waste Stream: Days six and seven
The waste stream week is over, and I feel it was pretty successful. The final meal was some out-of-date turkey bacon and a couple fried eggs made into sandwiches. No salad tonight, mainly because I did not bring home any … Continue reading
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Waste stream: Days three, four and five
Leftovers. That pretty much sums up these last three days. And salads. Lots of salads. Breakfast has been a really basic meal consisting of a few pieces of expired bread made into toast and coated with honey (the same … Continue reading
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Waste stream: Day two
Breakfast was pretty much the same as yesterday; hot cereal, toast, honey and preserves. Lunch was leftovers from the previous night’s turkey and tomato sauce with some “expired” baby carrots, “expired” bread and a bit of goddess dressing out of … Continue reading
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Waste stream: Day one
The beginning of waste stream week was made a bit easier by the semi-annual Food Fair at Tidal Creek. I grabbed a few free samples of some breakfast cereal and a jar of cherry jam as well as a few … Continue reading
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Waste stream week
Cricket Bread has become more than just a local food project. It has further influenced my ideology and ways of looking at what is going on around me. It has me looking closely at my neighborhood and the edges of … Continue reading
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Assignment: Apple Sauce
Dear Reader – I have an assignment for you and me. We are going to enter the mainstream food waste river, together. We are going to pick a grocery store in our neighborhood, we are going to approach the … Continue reading
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Free bin
I have been dipping into the free bin at work quite a bit lately, mostly out of habit. I have also been going through the trash can and the compost buckets as well. In the past, I relied on the … Continue reading
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Foraging in Wilmington Part Two – The Highlights
I am, at best, a wanna-be food forager. I am really more of a scavenger, doing much better in dumpsters than I do surrounded by trees and weeds. In times gone by I have relied heavily on dumpstered bread and … 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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