Posts Tagged Locavores do it better
ELC Day 1!
Posted by Courtney in Eat Local Challenge on October 1, 2009
Shortening Eat Local Challenge to ELC! I wasn’t able to make it to the Wednesday farmers market yesterday but luckily I had some leftover sauteed portabellos, long beans, black eyed peas and eggplant. I mixed this with some Texmati rice and will probably be doing the same tomorrow. However tomorrow I will be getting my first Greenling delivery and I am super excited to see what the “Just Local Produce” box has in it. I am dying for fruit as I really haven’t eaten any since I started my pre-challenge. I don’t know how much fruit I can find during the fall or winter so I know what I will be doing next summer: canning and preserving summer fruit!
HEB Far West didn’t have any local produce but Matt, my husband, works there and sent me home with about 20 pounds of fruit and veggie scraps for our composter. I also planted a ton of romaine lettuce and some more cabbage in the garden. I have officially run out of room so I planted the remaining cabbage and some collards in the front flower beds. We’ll see what happens. I also started radishes from seeds today. It says they are ready in 22 days which sounds good to me because I am incredibly impatient.
Courtney's garden as of 10/1/09
Also, Jen from www.eatlocalchallenge.com got back to me and said that the post about the challenge starting should be up shortly – so keep checking it and sign up!
Eating local in Austin (or anywhere)
Posted by Courtney in Locavores do it better on September 22, 2009
If not LOCALLY PRODUCED, then Organic.
If not ORGANIC, then Family farm.
If not FAMILY FARM, then Local business.
If not a LOCAL BUSINESS, then Fair Trade.
If all else fails, at least don’t eat at McDonald’s!
Taken from Jamie S. on the Eat Local Challenge website.
Eat Local Challenge – Day -10
Posted by Courtney in Eat Local Challenge on September 21, 2009
I call this “Day -10″ because while I was slated to start my personal 100-mile diet today, September 21, last week I found out that there is an official Eat Local Challenge that happens in October. So my month-long 100-mile diet is really about 40 days. I unfortunately haven’t had time to do any research other than finding out that I can buy olive oil that is produced in Wimberly, TX (28 miles) so I am really jumping into this pretty unprepared with the thought that it will force me to learn about this quicker than my 2-job schedule will allow. So it’s Monday morning and I am foodless until tonight. I usually don’t really eat during the day anyway so I should be fine along with the fact that I ate everything in site this weekend in preparation (including vegan wedding cake that was not wheat free but I didn’t care and am paying for it now). Matt, my husband, was sweet enough to take a trip to the Austin Farmers Market on Saturday while I was at work to purchase some local squash, okra and mushrooms which will make up my dinner tonight. Did I mention I don’t know how to cook without a recipe? This should be interesting.
