Archive for the ‘ buying local ’ Category

Our Hobo Tuesday meal: Southern pulled pork and cole slaw sandwiches

Don’t forget about the book giveaway I’m hosting right now for Tar Sands. The book is about the dirty oil that is being shipped from Canada to the U.S. Now on to the post. It’s been a couple of months since I’ve participated in one of Thursday Night Smackdown‘s monthly challenges. So for those who [ READ MORE ]

8 Reasons to Pick Your Own

I have to get to the local farm that allows you to pick your own strawberries. I don’t know when I can get there, but my summer will be much sadder without my strawberries that I freeze for daiquiris. What’s so great about picking your own fruits and vegetables from a nearby farm. I’ll tell [ READ MORE ]

Green Term of the Week: Farm to Table

Whenever I go to a major city, I always try to find a farm to table (also called a farm to fork) restaurant to eat at. Back in November, my husband and I visited Founding Farmers in Washington DC, and we had one of the best breakfasts out we’ve ever had (see picture at left). [ READ MORE ]

Jersey Fresh Canned Tomatoes

I don’t know if the rest of the country views Jersey Tomatoes the way we view them here in New Jersey. In my state, if you’ve got a vegetable garden, you grow tomatoes. It’s what New Jersey soil was made for, or so we’re raised to believe here in the garden state. I grew up [ READ MORE ]

Stale Coffee and the Choices we Make

Good morning. I woke up this morning to cold coffee. Somehow instead of the coffee maker starting it at 6am, it brewed many hours ago. Our machine shuts off its warmer after two hours so I have no idea when it was actually fresh. In my efforts not to waste food (or coffee beans and [ READ MORE ]

Your Stimulus Check – If You’re Going to Spend It, Do it Locally

The other day I suggested in a post about buying locally that if you are intending to spend your stimulus check that you consider spending it locally. When you spend money at local businesses, much more of it stays right in your own community than if you shopped at nationally owned businesses. We got our [ READ MORE ]

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