If we were having coffee, I’d greet you with a big hug and thank you for joining me today! We’d settle in for a nice cuppa in the orchard by the acequia and watch the sun dance on the tree tops for a bit before diving into a gentle chat.…
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Welcome to Week 14 of our Local Bite Challenge and our 14th Mini Challenge! Can you believe we’ve intentionally eaten as locally as possible for almost 100 days?! We’ve eaten one local item that was new to us, sown some seeds, prepared one fully local meal, and enjoyed Restaurant Week! We’ve researched U Pick…
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Welcome to our Thirteenth Local Bite Mini Challenge! Can you believe that it’s already been 13 weeks?! How are you doing with your personal challenge to increase your local eating habits? Are you feeling great? Confident in your ability to eat locally on a regular basis? I sure hope so…
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Welcome to our Eleventh Local Bite Mini Challenge! How did last weeks challenge go? Did you enjoy a tasty, local beverage? I sure hope so! Alright, onto this weeks challenge! Your challenge this week is to use all of an item in your cooking. For example, if you’re planning to cook…
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Welcome to our tenth Local Bite Mini Challenge! Can you believe we’ve been at this for 2 1/2 months? Amazing, right?! Up until now we’ve focused mostly on food items, but there’s no way I could leave out one of my favorite things ever: Beverages!! So, your challenge this week is…
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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…
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Welcome to our eighth Local Bite Mini Challenge and the knowledge that you are now, officially, completed more than half of the entire challenge (that is, if you’ve been around since April 12th 😉 )! This week we are focusing on Community Gardens. Community Gardens are said to have been…
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Welcome to our seventh Local Bite Mini Challenge! This week we are focusing on Community Supported Agriculture (CSA’s). Here, in the words of LocalHarvest.org is an explanation of what a CSA is: A farmer offers a certain number of “shares” to the public. Typically the share consists of a box…