Posted in AnnArbor.com, Farm to Fork, Growing Goodies, Watch & Listen on March 21, 2011
In my Farm to Fork series I visit local farms around Ann Arbor and share what I learn. “People aren’t willing to just eat potatoes and onions all winter long.” Tomm Becker, of Sunseed Farm, stands in the one of their two unheated hoop houses surrounded by dark earth and verdant vegetables. “We believe that [...]
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Farm to Fork, Farmers Markets, Oh Say Can You CSA! on March 3, 2011
The Homegrown Local Food Summit celebrated its third year with over 300 people at Washtenaw Community College on March 1st. The sun drenched lobby shone down on the information booths and tables groaning under the bounty of donated food. Rachel Chadderdon, of Double Up Food Bucks, introduced the day’s event as a way “to bring [...]
Posted in Farmers Markets, Miracles, Press, Watch & Listen on March 2, 2011
I am so grateful and wiggly for this!!
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Backyard Chickens on February 18, 2011
I returned Wednesday to Ann Arbor from a week away. I left town with snowdrifts and nary a sight of grass or earth anywhere. I return to puddles, calcifying stalagmites of gray snow forms and soil once again visible in our back garden. The soft breeze and the smell of warming earth enveloped me on [...]
Posted in Backyard Chickens, Farm to Fork, Growing Goodies, Watch & Listen on January 7, 2011
(Note: This article contains very vivid descriptions of chicken slaughter.) According to Human Rights Watch, the average speed of dead poultry moving past the inspectors in a slaughtering plant is 70 per minute. That means in the time it took you to read this last sentence you would have been expected to examine six birds for [...]
