shares in local CSA–Utah Valley residents only
My friend Dale Allred has started a CSA (community-supported agriculture) called Jacob’s Cove in Orem, Utah and has expanded capacity, 200 more shares now available. A small 1 adult share is 5 to 7 pounds each week for 3 months (13 weeks). Small share (1 adult) $208 Medium share (2 adult) $390 Large share (4 [...]
2 Comments • Continue Reading →edible weeds
I blogged a few days ago about how when I’m weeding, I bring the dandelion and morning glory in and throw them in my fridge or blender.I don’t love the weedy taste of morning glory, so I use it in minimal amounts.Did you know the ENTIRE dandelion plant is edible?Roots, flowers, anything.And wild plants have [...]
18 Comments • Continue Reading →Skiing with green smoothies . . . and Green Smoothie Testimonials, Part 4
So I celebrated handing my book off to the publisher last Monday by goofing off a lot, skiing a few days last week. Turns out that a quart of green smoothie is an AWESOME skiing lunch. My girlfriends (with their inferior lunch) were losing energy and wanting to go home while I was still ready [...]
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Locals in Utah County, at Sunflower Market right now, whole pitted dates in the bins are $2.79/lb., good price. I love their produce, too, by the way (the candy section and the fact that they sell pork is really inexplicable, but . . . whatever). Organic apples continue to be $0.99 at Good [...]
10 Comments • Continue Reading →healthy options eating out
Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: I know you make a green smoothie and take it to work in a quart jar. But what about when you get up late, don’t have time, and you’re out in town and STARVING? What do you eat? Answer: Here, locally (Utah County), my favorite thing to do is [...]
11 Comments • Continue Reading →Reflecting on nutrition, food storage, and hard economic times
What a year this has been. The much-predicted failure of American investment banking has come to pass, our nation’s net worth has plummeted precipitously, and we’ve started into what promises to be a long recession. I just came across this quote by a wise man named Joseph Smith, from 175 years ago: “Our [...]
26 Comments • Continue Reading →Junk food vending in schools . . . Part 2 of 4
According to Ace Stryker of the Daily Herald, Child Nutrition Supervisor Jenilee McComb in Provo District is working on a policy for this fall that imposes a 300-calorie limit on vending machine goods. This is well intentioned, but plenty of nutrition free, acidic, processed foods can be sold in portions lower than 300 calories. [...]
1 Comment • Continue Reading →Schools complicit in crimes against children: junk-food vending… part 1 of 4
In July 20′s Daily Herald (Utah Valley), reporter Ace Stryker gives these infuriating statistics from a 2006 study by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where my home state of Utah leads the nation in these categories: 83 percent of Utah schools are selling chocolate in vending/school stores versus 40 percent nationwide 76 [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →Community Supported Agriculture selling shares in Draper
Wasatch Front locals only: I think it’s very exciting that http://www.bellorganic.com/csa.php is now offering shares in its Community Supported Agriculture co-op! HURRY, because they’ll be selling only through May 15, and I think they have only about a dozen shares left. What a CSA co-op is: you buy a share and pick up once a [...]
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blooming garden in the dead of winter
After DH built me some winter garden boxes (removable, on top of my square foot boxes), I planted them with onions and chard and spinach last fall. I meant to go out and water them, but, well . . . it’s been a bitter winter here in Utah. I’m kind of lazy and [...]
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