Welcome to our ninth Local Bite Mini Challenge! This week we are focusing on Food Origins. By now, we’ve all heard the statistic that the average meal in the U.S. travels an average of 1500 miles from farm to table (please enlighten me if you have the stats for your own country). This fact is incredibly sobering to me and was…
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We had our first real strawberry harvest late last week! After a very long day at work, when I was ready to, literally, get in bed by 7:00, Kim found them and called me outside. Is there a better way to cap off such a day than with 10 ounces of juicy, ripe, gorgeously red strawberries? It’s amazing how wonderful a…
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Alright friends, whether you’ve been participating in our big Local Bite Challenge or not, now’s the time to get excited! Why? Because you are formally invited to host or attend your very own Food Independence Potluck! That’s right, we are planning a Potluck for everyone all around the world! (That’s a lot of food, right?) Could you just, for one…
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As someone who has a degree in Environmental Education…and as someone who has spent the last decade working with children…I know that time spent in nature is incredibly beneficial for children. It’s good for all of us, but it seems to help children out of a funk almost immediately. So why, then, am I finding it so hard to remember…
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Welp, it’s official…I’m trying my hand at different forms of communication…scary as it may be 😉 So, are you ready for a farm tour? A couple of days ago, in my excitement about it being June (already), I recorded a short tour of our property! Short because our property is tiny and short because there’s not much to see yet!…
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I am very pleased to introduce you to my very good friend, Mel from The Faulk Farmstand as our Local Perspective today! Mel is living the next step on our dream towards a more self sufficient life by keeping the most adorable goats imaginable! Need I say more? OK, OK! 😉 Mel is constantly inspiring me to try just a…
