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!