Another week and another writer is wringing his hands about the contradictions and impracticalities exhibited by locavores. Writing in Saturday’s New York Times, Damon Darlin drags out the usual culprits who have instigated and promoted the preference for locally grown food: Michael Pollan, of course, but also Michelle Obama and her garden on the White [...]
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We last visited Boerson Farm near Green Lake, WI early last November. Since we were up at our second home in the area, we stopped by the other day to stock up on whatever they had, and see how winter is treating them. Only Mat was there, and he was kind enough to walk us [...]
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This year’s FamilyFarmed Expo in Chicago, March 11-13, is shaping up to be the ultimate Local Food and Sustainable Agriculture event of the year. For farmers, consumers and all food-related businesses and organizations in between, there seem to be MANY reasons to attend, but the keynote speakers and special guests alone should put this on [...]
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During a road trip to Syracuse, NY, last weekend to see my daughter in a play at Syracuse U., and take home some of her apartment clutter, I picked up a quart of this Wake Robin Farm yogurt at the classic Syracuse Real Food Co-op. I put it in our plug-in cooler for the eleven-hour [...]
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I hate to whine like a Britney fan, but Muskegon Critic’s post in Daily Kos the other day scared me with its headline. Turns out the post is mostly an explanation of the unique climate and growing conditions which enable a big chunk of western Michigan to produce such fine fruit crops. The only scary parts [...]
We continue to eat our way through Green Lake County, WI. Sunday we visited Boerson Farm, in the beautiful northwest area of the county, near where the White River joins the Fox. This farm is run by Danielle and Mat Boerson, using a full range of sustainable methods, including pasturing of pigs and chickens. One [...]
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As promised the other day, we visited two of the half dozen or so farms in Green Lake County, WI who practice some form of locally-focused farming, selling directly to the public. The first was 4M Bison Farm, run by the Mildebrandt family. As the name implies, they raise Bison for meat. They practice rotational [...]
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We are spending the weekend in Green Lake, WI, where we have a small second house overlooking the beautiful lake. Whenever we are here, between May until Halloween, one of our favorite places to go is Soda’s Farm Market, a small store located on the small farm operated by Tracy and Kimble Soda, on WI State [...]
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Since I’m well-stocked with spinach, peppers, apples and squash, I filled in a few other things. I put a quarter in the shot above to show how small those sweet potatoes are. They’re like fingerlings. And the grapes are my favorite of all grapes: concord. My grandmother had a huge concord vine in her yard [...]
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It’s Carnival Squash. A “winter squash” that seems piled up right now in every farmers market, produce department, even a few garden centers. I’m really getting into all kinds of squash this year, so I had to try a carnival. Like all squash, there are several ways to cook these. I picked the simplest. I simply [...]
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