October 2010
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September 2010
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August 2010
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See you tonight for our closing CSAlove events!
5:30-7:30 at Chakra Khan
Pickling, Poetry, and Pot Luck!
read more here!
All are welcome.
Learn to pickle and can! →
what did....
What did the carrot say to the wheat?
Lettuce rest, I’m feeling beet.
- Shel Silverstein
All the details on Sunday's Closing Events (FUN)! →
vegetable joke
Q: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter?
A: Pumpkin pi.
vegetable joke
Q: Why do potatoes make good detectives?
A: Because they keep their eyes peeled.
vegetable joke
Q: What do you call it when you a pay a vegetable a flat rate rather than an hourly rate?
A: Celeried
cross-pollination →
Check another fun art + community project I’ve got going this week—would love to see you there!
-j
p.s. we DO have a spin art machine :)
Tip 9 from "10 Easy Steps to Incorporate more...
from Asparagus to Zucchini
Encourage your favorite restaurants to consider purchasing produce from local farmers. Madison, Milwaukee, and Chicago restaurants have the option of working with “Home Grown Wisconsin,” a farmer-restaurant cooperative that coordinates the supply and distribution of locally grown produce to restaurants. Look for (or develop) cooperatives like this in you...
Tip 8 from "10 Easy Steps to Incorporate more...
from Asparagus to Zucchini
Buy fewer convenience foods. Covenience foods, in general, are more expensive excessively packaged, and less fresh and nutritious than food you prepare at home. Additionally, the ingredients in these convenience foods are seldom locally grown or organic.
Learn how to “package” your own foods at our Pickling & Canning Workshop! 8/29 Click on...
Tip 7 from "10 Easy Steps to Incorporate more...
from Asparagus to Zucchini
Learn how to substitute. This is a great way to incorporate unfamiliar foods into your diet while enjoying your favorite dishes. For example, substitute the long-storing celeriac root for celery in the winter. Try baking with local honey or maple syrup instead of can sugar, which is grown in southern climates and uses large amounts of chemicals. Winter salads can...
Tip 6 from "10 Easy Steps to Incorporate more...
from Asparagus to Zucchini
Plan for the winter—and do not despair when it arrives. With a little planning and some work in the summer, you can enjoy local foods all winter long. It is relatively easy to can your own tomatoes, pickles, and jams, and even easier to put some food away in a freezer or store squash and root crops in a basement. Some area stores and co-ops also carry locally...
WORMFARM institute →
Wormfarm is a beautiful family farm in Wisconsin that is all about food, art, and community—one of our CSAlove artists, Angela Sprunger, did a residency there a few years ago and loved it.
Check out their site and follow them on facebook!
July 2010
23 posts
cilantro storage tips
* For short-term storage, wrap cilantro in a damp towel or stand upright in a container with an inch of water, and refrigerate. Do not wash prior to refrigeration.
* Freeze fresh leaves in a plastic zip-lock bag. Remove air, seal, and freeze. Do not thaw before use.
* Cilantro is one of the few herbs that does not retain its flavor when dehydrated.
from Asparagus to Zucchini
Tip 5 from "10 Easy Steps to Incorporate more...
from MACSAC’s Asparagus to Zucchini
Be creative and flexible in your cooking. Seasonal cooking presents a culinary adventure through a wide world of vegetable dishes. Some vegetables taste very different when they are fresh and well prepared. While you may have always hated beets that come from a can, you may find you love fresh beets prepared in a salad or borscht.
Tip 4 from "10 Easy Steps to Incorporate more...
from MACSAC’s Asparagus to Zucchini
Make a commitment that your food buying practices reflect your principles. Purchasing locally grown and seasonal foods can benefit the economy, the environment, and personal nutrition in many ways. Buying locally grown food benefits the local economy, since most of the profit ends up in the local community. It also benefits local farmers since more of the...
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Tip 3 from "10 Easy Steps to Incorporate more...
from MACSAC’s Asparagus to Zucchini
Develop a connection to your food. One of the most basic ways to do this is to plant a garden, even if it is only one potted tomato plant sitting on the porch. Another option is to become connected to the people from whom you buy food, be they vendors at a farmers’ market or CSA farmers.
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Tip 2 from "10 Easy Steps to Incorporate more...
from MACSAC’s Asparagus to Zucchini
Be conscious of the source of your food. When at the grocery store, check food labels for their origin and then check to see if there are any alternative products that have been produced closer to home. If there are none, ask your grocer to start stocking local foods.
CSAlove & CK's 2nd B-day Celebration: TONIGHT!...
CSAlove Celebration: Friday, July 16th 7-10:30pm.
Music, Drinks, Food, Opera, Art!
Proceeds from donations benefit Mixed Precipitation’s Picnic Operetta, to be performed in community gardens later this summer
Held at Chakra Khan in the Ivy Building for the Arts:
2637 27th Ave S, #216B MPLS 55406
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Featuring Mixed Precipitation’s Picnic Operetta!
Selections for this year’s...
meet the farmer! great series at Seward Co-op →
Seward Co-op has several upcoming opportunities to meet a farmer, hear what they do, and sample their food—awesome!
simple, good, and tasty on channel 5! video... →
this friday! you coming? →
mixed precipitation: the folks behind the picnic...
Here are some words from Scotty Reynolds, the man behind Mixed Precipitation—whose Picnic Operetta you will preview this Friday at Chakra Khan!
…presenting opera and celebrating urban agriculture. Our name, Mixed Precipitation, comes from my personal experience as a year round biker. I found that whenever I heard the words ‘mixed precipitation’ in the forecast it meant the worst...
the celebration is just a little more than a week...
CSAlove Celebration: Friday, July 16th 7-10:30pm. Music, Drinks, Food, Opera, Art!
Proceeds from donations benefit Mixed Precipitation’s Picnic Operetta, to be performed in community gardens later this summer
Held at Chakra Khan in the Ivy Building for the Arts:
2637 27th Ave S, #216B MPLS 55406
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Featuring Mixed Precipitation’s Picnic Operetta!
Selections for...
are you ready? our events run-down
EXHIBITION curated exhibit of artwork examining CSAlove sort of themes June-August 2010
OPEN EXHIBITION HOURS: Friday, July 2nd 2-4:30 Thursday, July 8th, 6-8pm Thursday, July 22nd, 6-8pm Monday, August 2nd, 4-6pm (or by special arrangement)
EVENTS:
CSAlove Celebration: Friday, July 16th 7-10:30pm. Music, Drinks, Food, Opera, Art!
Proceeds from donations benefit Mixed...
June 2010
19 posts
poetry and famine ~ adrienne rich
A potato explodes in the oven. Poetry and famine:
the poets who never starved, whose names we know
the famished nameless taking ship with their hoard of poetry
Annie Sullivan half-blind in the workhouse enthralling her childmates
with lore her father had borne in his head from Limerick along with the dream of work
and hatred of England smouldering like a turf-fire. But a poetry older...
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land, life, and the poetry of creatures
MPR’s Speaking of Faith had a great show on food, poetry, agriculture, and spirituality last weekend. Listen to it and read more about it here. Even if you aren’t religious, I think it will speak to your experience as a being who interacts with food every day.
“how we eat and drink, how we sow our land, how we get food, how we use other bodies to get our food…these...
What I did with this week's veggies
This week we got tons of greens in our box.
Today it’s cool, grey and rainy, so I made some polenta, a great cozy rainy-day food. It’s so easy to cook, and then I made it into a baked polenta all the great green veggies. I poured a layer of polenta into the bottom of a glass dish, then chopped up kale, spinach, green garlic, garlic chives, and scallions into the middle layer. ...
Tip 1 from "10 Easy Steps to Incorporate more...
I’m going to share with you “10 Easy Steps to Incorporate More Local and Seasonal Food into Your Diet”—from MACSAC (Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture)’s foodbook From Asparagus to Zucchini. (which we plan to have available for purchase at the CSAlove show.) It literally goes from A to Z—outlining how to store, prepare and cook all sorts of...
“I see my neighbor’s urban chickens as just one part of a new era of CSHBUAA...”
– a quote from on of our CSAlove artists, Dana O’Malley
