I've just returned from the Farmers' Market with my haul: a watermelon for the get together tomorrow night, green beans, 3 tomatoes, garlic, beets, 3 ears of corn, a loaf of delicious bread, 2 summer squash, mixed greens, and the most delicious pastries known to human kind: cinnamon pull aparts from Crumb Brothers. I'm not sure why anyone eats anything else...
We also got some grass fed beef from Lau Family Farms. They come to the market once a month, and one can order bundles ahead of time. I'm excited to try it, as I'm trying to eat more locally. I also vow to try, try!, to eat fruit and vegetables in season. The two things I don't think I can give up: bananas and avocados. And coffee. It's hard to find local coffee, but at least we can buy locally roasted coffee that is fair trade. As far as I can tell the most sustainable coffee that I've found is Cafe Feminino from Ibis, a Utah roaster.
Middlebrow just bought Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, so I guess it's a vibe that's going through the house. I think this means that we'll be cutting back on trips to Costco, unless it's the Idaho Costco, which sells wine (but we'll be focusing on California wines, or Northwest wines, as opposed to the South American or Australian variety).
In other news: If Obama doesn't win the fall election, we'll be buying a small farm in South America, where we could find local coffee and wine. And maybe grow all our own food and write novels and play clay court tennis. My needs are few. Let's stay optimistic, but check back here in November, if you want to buy in to this post-apocalypse dream.
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Local eating is good! Also, I think it's good to do the best you can, recognizing that if everyone does a bit better about this, it helps more than if one person does it perfectly. So have your avocados and have your coffee, and bananas (fair trade if you can). But sign up with Chad for the winter! it's awesome to get vegetables grown here year round.
The Crumb Bros. deserve some kind of award for how good their bread and pastries are. Also, they should teach classes.
Put me on the waiting list for the post-apocalyptic dream, but I am keeping hope alive.
i like your contingency plan. it'll give me an excuse to go to south america. but perhaps i should start by meeting you for a drink. do you have my phone #? i'll email it to you.
if south america doesn't work out, you can all move up her to canada with me and will. it's the shangri-la don't you know. the snow and all that makes it hard to grow your own food year round, but there are some vineyards nearby--or so I've heard.
I'm trying too. The wine part--that's it Stumpjump! You're too far away. Liberty School it is ($10.49) at the World Market (not that the World Market is the poster child for local eating. And not that your World Market can sell wine). I miss Chad.
It is probably necessary, in order to eat locally, to have soil that can grow food. Rich, wet soil. Not dry, barren, desert soil. We can get some local produce but not always. Plus I noticed our Costco does a great job of trying to carry local produce as well as products from other local establishments. I say this so I can still shop at Costco with a clear conscience. I don't think I would want to coffee grown here either. I will try my best.
Hey, count me in too. Sounds like paradise.
I just bought animal vegetable miracle too. interesting coincidence. or is it?
are you ready for school already? I can't believe it's coming up. hope your summer has been entertaining.
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