Pick of the Week: Time to sign-up for the October 2008 Eat Local Challenge!
Pick of the Week #2: Great little exercise at Andrea's Recipes: Grow Your Own, showcasing homemade-from-homegrown food.
From the site, here's the 411 on the program, which will be a year old in October:
Grow Your Own is a twice-a-month blogging event that celebrates the foods we grow or raise ourselves and the dishes we make using our homegrown products. Anyone with a blog can participate! Do you write a food blog? A gardening blog? A farm blog? A hunting or foraging blog? An eco blog? A frugal blog? Anything whatsoever related to home and garden or fun activities to do with children? You can write a post about some of the edibles you have raised, grown, or found and cooked with. Having a food blog is not a requirement for participation.
In the News:
• Not your Mother's Garden Club (Herald Times Reporter (Manitowac, WI, 17 August 2008) - Interesting story but got a real kick out of this line, quoting a Wisconsin lady named--seriously--Rosie Bugs. (Dontcha know the journalist had fun typing it up?)
"People are much more aware of the pests and problems … than ever before," Bugs said. "New plants are coming out that are more resistant to disease and insects."
• A Modest Proposal for Sustainable Eating (San Francisco Chronicle, 16 August 2008)
• Eatdrinkbetter.com's Stuart Stein has a book review of Renewing America's Food Traditions by Gary Paul Nabhan.
• Metro Gardeners Getting More Greens for Less Cabbage (Detroit Free Press, 13 August 2008)
• Victory Gardens Popular Again (Fosters.com, 13 August 2008)
• Community Gardens Galore (Ohio.com, 11 August 2008)
• A Growing Crop of Gardeners (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2008)
• New release by New Society Publishers: ECO-preneuring: Putting Purpose and the Planet Before Profits by Lisa Kivirist and John Ivanko. Looks interesting. Read more about the book here. Author blogs are here and here, respectively.
Blogosphere:
- Victory Gardens and the Sustainable Living Roadshow at Inhabitat.com: Blogger Moe Beitiks makes a salien point: "I’m both jaded and inspired by the concept of sustainable living. It’s clear that the culture of climate chage is complex– there is no one solution, there is no ultimate green. But the idea is a unifying one - It’s something that’s becoming easier to do and realize."
- Texas Locavore...check it out!
- RedMo's talkin' rain barrels in Texas again. Read it here.
- More Texas Talk: Texans Against Hunger and Texas Food Bank Network.
- Bright Future: a "partisan free zone" covering a range of topics (energy, environment, health, etc.) and featuring forum and blog to which anyone who joins the site can post.
- The People Who Feed Us: Periodic profiles of (mostly) New York city area farmers. Would be great to see similar projects in other areas.
- What Matters to Me has a pro-Eat The View post worth reading. Also, while poking around on the WMtM blog, I found a link to this commercial site, Earthbox, which is kinda cool.
- There's a church group (Central Vineyard) in Ohio who recently pooled fresh veggies from their respective gardens to feed the needy. Read about the project here. Here's another faith-based group, Justice Gardens, that is part of a gardening ministry. (The two blogs are related...so I'm listing them here together.)
- From Quilting and Patchwork, here's a recent post about Victory Garden quilts.
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