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Are you troubled by what you learned about our nation’s food system from Food, Inc., King Corn, The Future of Food, or The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and wonder what you can do about it? Concerned about the dependence of our industrialized agricultural system on fossil fuels for fertilizers, pesticides, farm machinery, food processing, storage and [...] Growing plants indoors helps condition our inside air by removing CO2 and other airborn chemicals. So in addition to our indoor winter herb pots – chives, basil, parsley, and cherry tomatoes, you might want to consider some of these plants which are identified today in “Science Daily” As you can see from our little note above, the Local Food Network of greater Newburyport is planning some changes. When we ran our on line poll and sought others opinions about the LFN we learned some interesting and valuable tidbits. So we’re going to be responding to those suggestions . Local City Council candidate Ari Herzog has written in the past for the Huffington Post. Now we read about readers photos of local food from the Huffington Post. Talk about jumping on our bandwagon…err…Farm Wagon! The new Rail Trail in Newburyport which runs from the Merrimack River’s edge near Michael’s and Mr. India in a straight line over, under and through Newburyport to the Train Station is really looking good. There are new beautiful granite stairs at the bottom of Strong Street, some nice looking ones on the north side of [...] Maybe its the rainy day here in Newburyport, but I realize that we’re coming to the end of summer growing season and figuring out ways to eat local without fresh from the field products. So what can a locavore do? Here are a few ideas: Patronize the winter markets in our region, like Portsmouth, Exeter, and [...] Yes, I think it did in a small way. BS you say! Well would it be less BS if our greater Newburyport Local Food Network blog along with tons of other web based food information, recipes, locavore content..including Gourmet Magazine’s own on line recipes cache. Made a difference. We hear every day that newspapers are dying, [...] Great Tomato Recipes [click here for all] Fried Green Tomatoes Tomato “Fest” Custard, Basil Jelly Tomato Tower “Zebra” Tomato Foam, Shaved Elephant Heart Plums, Rose Ice Cream & Tomato “Paper” Heirloom Tomato, Peach, and Plum Crisp with Basil Ice Cream Chilled Hot and Sour green Tomato Soup with Fresh Mint Yogurt Crema Lobster and Scallop Roulade Terrene With Heirloom Tomato Relish Heirloom Tomato and [...] We’ve blogged about oysters a bit lately and we’ve learned that this summer in Massachusetts, NOAA and the Nature Conservancy have partnered with Massachusetts Audubon to restore oysters bed off the Cape. Oysters beds are like the ‘reefs of the northeast’ in that their complicated , craggy structures make home for lots of diverse sea life, [...] We got this nice note from The Oyster Project, an organization that advocates and blogs for restoration of Oysters in Massachusetts. We used to have lots of oysters in local waters. Now that the Merrimack is much cleaner than in the 1900’s why not bring them back? Why not starting a program to clean up [...] |
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