If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This may seem obvious, but many of the enlightened social progress “movements”, such as energy conservation, green consumption and sustainable food production are, to the poorest of our population in depressed inner city neighborhoods, remote lifestyle choices and eccentric hobbies of [...]
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But where I live (Chicago’s north shore burbs) they will only be around thru the end of this month. I went to my two favorites this weekend, Northfield on Saturday, and Skokie today. The pics above are from Northfield. Notice the blueberries, very unusual in October.
All fruit is from southwest Michigan, about two hours [...]
Back home in north shore burbs of Chicago. Visited the farmers market in the Ravinia neighborhood of Highland Park. Nice little market, with two Michigan fruit growers, and three or four Illinois vegetable growers. Also, “The Cheese People”, who sell various artisanal cheeses, one baker’s stall, one olive and vinegar stall, and several other specialty [...]
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“Pastured” meat and eggs are becoming very popular nationwide, including here in Wisconsin where I’ve been staying lately. A couple simple google searches led me to Thundering Hoof Ranch, just north of Green Lake, WI. Run by a young couple, open a year or so, they are just getting started, but their cattle, sheep, hogs and [...]
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