OK, this is a dog-bites-man story, I admit. A brief blurb published on the trade web site Food Manufacturing, announces “Agriculture Expert To Dispel Locavore Myth”. The release goes on to explain:
Roger A. Cady, Ph.D., Senior Technical Consultant at Elanco, will dispel the myth that purchasing locally grown food is better for the [...]
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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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Some articles I run across touch on so many issues I’m thinking about simultaneously, that it seems like I wrote the article myself. Although mine would usually not be as good. The latest example is a post by Sharon Astyk on the approaching crisis of not having a enough farmers. Astyk is also the author [...]
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Or I should say, the attack of the misguided and dangerous beings who feed on those farmer’s market favorites. As described by James McWilliams in his book ”Just Food”, there are people lurking among who us who pose a threat to our food supply. McWilliams has given them a name: Locavores. He helpfully describes their characteristics and [...]
I made it to the Logan Square Farmers Market yesterday. It’s held every Sunday through March 28, inside the historic Congress Theatre, 2135 N Milwaukee Ave., Chicago. I stocked up on grass-fed meat from two farms: lamb from Mint Creek Farm, and beef from Black Earth Meats. Also loaded up on sprouts/microgreens from Tiny Greens. [...]
Ever since learning from The Local Beet that this new neighborhood co-op opened back December I’ve been trying to get there to check it out. Since I happened to be near Logan Square today, finally it happened. Dill Pickle Co-op is a great little place, with very nice people running it.
I only had a [...]
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Well, doesn’t this sound awesome:
“The DNR has granted preliminary approval to Rosendale Dairy to utilize a never-before-tried method of determining whether it can spread manure on fields with shallow groundwater.”
This quote is from an article in the Ripon Commonwealth Press (RCP), and is the latest development in the life of a Wisconsin dairy CAFO (Confined [...]
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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After two family Thanksgiving get togethers, I’m too full to think up an original post. So I’ll just salute Firedoglake’s Emptywheel and her commitment to an all Michigan Thanksgiving meal.
I named this blog ‘Great Lakes Real Food’, because in addition to writing about food, I wanted to focus on a geographic area, specifically the region of the U.S. in which I live. Let me hasten to add that the ‘Great Lakes’ region also encompasses huge swaths of Canada, and I very much intend to [...]
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