I always feel bad when my efforts to eat local interfere with other things in my life. Last week, I turned down a friend’s offer to go hang out on a boat and watch the sunset during the longest day of the year because I had bought all the ingredients to cook a local meal. [...]
One Local Summer Week 3: Womach Chicken
So, I missed last week’s OLS posting (I did manage a quick local meal–and that post is to come). But this week, I finally had the time to do my local foodshed justice.
About six months ago, I learned of Curtis Womach, and the pastured chicken farm he and a partner started out in Julian (about [...]
Blind Lady + Victory Gardens = Blind Victory?
Good things are growing in San Diego these days. Like this amazing organization that has sprung onto the scene: Victory Gardens San Diego.
I’m incredibly excited about what VGSD is doing. First, the organization is actually a collaboration of over a dozen local groups who kind of banded together to make things happen when they realized [...]
One Local Summer 2009! Week 1
As I’ve said numerous times, one of my favorite exercises on this blog has been One Local Summer. In participating, you commit to preparing, eating, and blogging about one completely-local meal a week, for each of the 10 weeks of the summer. I started it in 2007, and I’m delighted to be able to participate [...]