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What is Local Food? Why does it matter? |
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Written by Gerard Bentryn
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 19:37 |
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Eating locally is touted as the new organic. Why? Most discussions revolve around food miles and environmental impact. But suppose those are not the most important reasons for eating locally.
Here on our farm we talk about vitamin “L” and vitamin “S”. Vitamin L is the energy we get from living in beauty. It is the landscape vitamin. Most of us know it when we see it. Rolling fields...grazing animals--from which we derive a sense of place, peacefulness, a calming beauty.
Vitamin S is the vitamin of spirituality. An innate, if unspoken, sense that this earth we look at is what we are made of, if only we eat of it. All of us seem to have a need to be a part of something bigger than us, to connect to where we live and with the people who share our community. Local food is the basis for real communion, with that place, with our neighbors. |
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'Good Food’ documentary featuring Washington farmers premiers at SIFF |
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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 05 May 2008 21:42 |
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Seattle International Film Festival – May 1, 2008 – Something remarkable is happening in the Pacific Northwest; family farms are making a comeback. These farms, the farmers, ranchers, cultivators, and the food they produce, are the focus of a new Moving Images documentary, Good Food, which premieres at the Seattle International Film Festival June 4th at 7 p.m. Food, where it comes from, how it is grown and processed is becoming more important for everyone, and Good Food introduces us to the local farmers and ranchers, distributors and restaurants that are building a sustainable food system for the Pacific Northwest. The film makes the important personal connection between the source and your table.
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What's Fresh
This week at the Bainbridge Farmers' Market
- Port Madison has a wonderful new goat mozarella, yogurt, and chevre, plain, herbed, and truffled!
- Leapfrog Farm has leeks, stir fry mix, arugula, sprouting broccoli and salad mix
- Butler Green Farms has asparagus, salad greens, spinach, radishes, beets, bok choy, Swiss chard
- Farmhouse Organics has lots of fresh eggs, a new asian greens mix, broccoli raab, radishes, salad mix
- Many vendors are offering vegetable and fruit starts and plants. Tani Creek has Goji berry bushes, there's a new vendor offering a wide selection of tomato plants, Persephone Farms has sweet peas and tomatoes, Leapfrog Farms also has a good selection of veggie and flower starts.
What we're eating
Springtime recipes
Tender green chives bring spring to the table, try come of the recipes in The chives of spring in the recipe blog
Nettles are bursting out all over! Nettle soup is the perfect spring tonic - you'll find recipes in the recipe blog . Last week a friend raved about a great polenta made with nettles, here's a recipe for Nettle Polenta from the LA Times. The same article includes a recipe for a nettle frittata
Halibut season has just begun, you'll find fresh halibut in the market now. Wrap it up with some fresh chard from your garden (Butler Green Farms CSA is also offering chard now) to make Halibut with Chard and Ginger Cream Sauce.
What we're reading
Fish Forever by Paul Johnson
If you love seafood but worry about overfishing and contaminants, Fish Forever is an indespensible resource. Johnson provides in-depth guidance (438 pages of it!) on 70 different fish and shellfish; how and where they're harvested, the sustainability of each fishery, health issues. Then he offers one or two recipes for each. Johnson is a former chef who now supplies many of the best chefs in the country with seafood from his Monterey Fish Market. Every recipe I've tried has been wonderful. Love this book. It's available through the Kitsap County Library, or by order at Eagle Harbor Books.
Highlighted events
Bainbridge and Poulsbo Farmers' Markets open every Saturday, 9 am to 1 pm
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