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Getting Started

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Getting Started

Yesterday I stopped at Noah’s for a decidedly un-local bagel and caught sight of a flier on their bulletin board for The Organic Homesteader. The Organic Homesteader is a small local business that will come out to your home and install and maintain an organic homestead garden in your backyard.  Their services are available in Corvallis and Eugene. From their site: We will custom design your own backyard mini-farm with your family size and preferences in mind.  You will have a bounty of fresh vegetables available throughout the growing season….and we will do the work for you! They also offer classes and consultations for people who prefer to do this on their own. Additionally, they offer care for backyard chickens, informal veggie and seed-saver swaps, and vacation maintenance and care services. If anyone out there has a testimonial, we’d love to hear about it. * * * * I’m...

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More early bird stuff & a book recommendation

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More early bird stuff & a book recommendation

I have to do another early bird post, because my buddy VM from Harrisburg made two things that sound so wonderful that I just can’t keep them to myself. First, goat cheese and spinach stuffed chicken breast with caramelized shallot sauce — the goat cheese and spinach were from the Corvallis market. This is going to be our recipe of the week next week if she sends it to me in time! (Hint, hint, nudge, nudge.) Second, she made French onion soup grantinee, with onions and green garlic from the Corvallis market. As for me, I have been enjoying the “party in a jar” (goat cheese in olive oil and herbs and lots of other yummy things) from Alsea Acre Alpines. Just slap that on some crackers and I’m all set. In book news… I just finished Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living. I enjoyed it...

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Book Signing at OSU

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Book Signing at OSU

Sorry for the last minute message, but I just found out that Ivy Manning will be at the OSU Bookstore on Saturday, signing copies of her new cookbook, The Farm to Table Cookbook: The Art of Eating Locally. Date: Saturday, May 3 Time: 11am to 2pm Place: OSU Bookstore, 2301 SW Jefferson in the Memorial Union building Full disclosure: It’s Mom’s weekend at OSU, so it’s going to be crowded and busy. But if you don’t mind that and would like to meet the author and purchase the book, here you go!

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Starting the “to read” pile

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Starting the “to read” pile

Simply in Season by Mary Beth Lind and Cathleen Hockman-Wert Through stories and simple “whole foods” recipes, Mary Beth Lind and Cathleen Hockman-Wert explore how the food we put on our tables impacts our local and global neighbors. They show the importance of eating local, seasonal food—and fairly traded food—and invite readers to make choices that offer security and health for our communities, for the land, for body and spirit. While the authors come at this topic from the perspective of their own faith, the reviews have me feeling that there is something here for everyone, whether one shares that faith or not. Plus, one of the authors — Cathleen Hockman-Wert — is an Oregonian. That’s why I started the list with this book… we dig the locals!

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