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Food

THIRD GENERATION SEED

The other day, Bob went to Windy Meadows Farm to visit Gerry Levitt and brought back a crooknecked pumpkin they grew from seed we saved.  This beautiful squash represents three generations of crooknecked pumpkins, beginning with the first one we brought home from The Cupboard in Denton, Texas. It was three years ago when we […]

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Food

A CASE OF CABBAGE

Our friends at ECO (Eastern Carolina Organics) do a great job of getting local produce into local markets and restaurants.  As is the nature of their business, they sometimes end up with seconds.  When that happens, they generally alert the people who work nearby at Piedmont Eco Industrial park. A few weeks ago, it was […]

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Food Self Reliance

grow food

Rob Jones dropped by this evening and answered a question we’ve been wrestling with for months. He was in town for Catherine’s birthday, planned to sleep out in the field beyond our houses and stopped by Camelina to visit. For some time now, Bob has been searching for the right words to bring the concept […]

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Food

FREEGAN DIVERS

I’m noshing on a toasted blueberry bagel, thinking how wonderful it is to be living off the largess of the machine. By that I mean, the bagel was destined for the landfill before our friends Link and Tim rescued it from a dumpster. In this country, we have so much food that 40% of it […]

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Food

ANOTHER CULINARY EPIPHANY

The minute we entered the Chatham Marketplace, we smelled it. Kentucky Fried Chicken! Our stomachs rumbled in anticipation. A second later, our vegan brains slammed on the brakes. Vegans don’t eat Kentucky Fried Chicken! Regardless of how many buckets they may have consumed in a previous life. But wait, it was okay! The little sign […]