| Welcome to GoodFood World | June 12, 2013
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Time to take back your food! How, you ask?
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Bradner Park Community Garden
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Grow your own! Now don't tell me you live in an apartment or on a tiny city lot, that's no excuse!
If you don't have room for even a couple of small garden boxes on a balcony, get thee to a community garden, put a garden in a friend's yard, or find a small amount of "waste" space and do a little "guerrilla gardening."
If you live in a northern state, you've still got time - just! - to get some goodies in the ground. You may not have time to ripen a tomato, but you'd be amazed at what you CAN harvest!
If you live further south, go for it! A little screening to protect sprouts from the sun and some careful watering will nurture baby plants even in summer.
Looking for organic seeds? After all, if you're going for a Zero-Mile Diet, make sure you get seeds that come from organically raised plants. You'll find a list of suppliers here, and we've included the names of some great "old fashioned" gardening books to give you a hand.
And while you're shopping for seeds and starts, digging in the dirt, and planting those little babies, sing along with Guy Clark: "Homegrown Tomatoes." (Lyrics are provided!) If that doesn't put you in the spirit to take back your food, nothing will!
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Ready to get your knees muddy and dirt under your nails? Here are two practical guides to "farming" in the city. Don't be intimidated - your farm may be a 5'x5' plot, but it's all yours!
 Your Farm in the City: An Urban-Dweller's Guide to Growing Food and Raising Animals, Lisa Taylor
The most complete book on urban farming, covering everything from growing organic produce and raising chickens, to running a small farm on a city lot or in a suburban backyard. Clear, easy-to-follow instructions guide and inspire even the most inexperienced urbanite in how to grow and harvest all types of produce, flowers, herbs, and trees, as well as how to raise livestock like chickens, ducks, rabbits, goats, and honeybees.
 The Urban Farm Handbook, Annette Cottrell and Joshua McNichols
Are we having a spate of mid-life food crises or are folks in their late 30s and early 40s simply realizing that the words "supermarket" and "good food" don't seem to belong in the same sentence anymore? Annette Cottrell - self-avowed "extreme gardener" - and Joshua McNichols turned their love of whole, minimally processed, naturally grown food into both a passion and a book. The Urban Farm Handbook is a 21st Century Whole Earth Catalog of food and gardening, for "city slickers" instead of "off-the-grid, back-to-earthers."
There are more books on GoodFood World and more coming every week. Read, learn, and enjoy! |
 Chicago's Johnny Appleseed - in miniature!
Gene Yale grows 170+ apple trees in a standard city lot. By growing tiny little trees - grafted and pruned like Bonsai - Gene has 3-foot apple treas that bear full size fruit. How does he do it?
There are more videos on GoodFood World and more coming every week. |
Kate's in the Kitchen: "Good For You" Cookies
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Kate Hilmer, our Good Food on a Budget columnist, shares her cookie recipe - yummy and better for you than those made out of bleached white flour. Here's what Kate has to say:
Here is another recipe to continue my whole wheat craze. Ever since I made a really decent loaf of wheat bread, I'm convinced that I can phase white flour out of my recipes, making them whole wheat or at least very nearly so.
These cookies were delicious hot from the oven, but they also withstood the test of time. I think I ate about seven of them the next day. In a row...
Get Kate's recipe for Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Cookies.
There are more recipes at GoodFood World; and more coming every week. Get cooking!
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Farm Talk: Voices From the Farm
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She's baaaack! Our Minnesota shepherdess, Lea McEvilly, is back at her keyboard filling us in on her sheep raising adventures and misadventures. Not even Lyme's Disease can slow her down!
Sheep, Sheep Everywhere!
Toward the end of the month, it was finally time to get the wool off those sheep! The shearers came, and we had one wildly busy and stressful day getting all the various groups of sheep to the shearing pen, then moved out of the way for the next group. First the hugely pregnant older ewes, then the bred ewe lambs, then the rams were shorne, and eventually returned to their original place in the barn. It was a great relief to me, and no doubt also to the sheep! Keep reading, there is always more at Voices From the Farm! |
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Submit A Recipe - Get FREE Lentils!
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OK, Timeless Food fans... here's your chance to be famous and (a little bit) rich AND get free lentils!
Here's what you do to get a little bit rich:
Submit a winning recipe to the National Lentil Festival Cook-Off by June 17 and you could win up to $2000 and a trip to Pullman WA. That's cool! We'd love it if you would specify Timeless Food' s lentils in your recipe!
1) Submit a recipe to the Lentil Festival Cook-off (OK, you just did that!) that specifies one of the T imeless lentil varieties in the recipe. Here are the varieties to choose from. 2) Send us a copy of your submission - print it out before you push "send" - and a photo of the finished dish and you as chef. Submissions go to info@timelessfood.com.3) We will send you a box with an assortment of three of our 1-pound bags of lentils. And for your 15 minutes of fame, we will feature your recipe on our website! (You'll have to wait until after the Lentil Festival, August 16-17, since we need to keep all recipes under wraps until then.) |
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