Local Food Movement: Boston

U grow food. Good. Can cooks of A2K come and cook Brunch 4 U ?

Virtual $ (FUS) Real Live Sophia Bunch

Very cool!

Portland has a lot of very similar programs. One of my favorites is Urban Gleaners: http://www.urbangleaners.org/

I need to visit my family.

You're just a little too socialist/communist for my liking, LittleK. How dare you people threaten the livelihood of all the heads of corporate food conglomerates.

Have you ever read Waste by Tristam Stuart?

Your thread was perfectly timed, littlek!

It reminded me that we have a farmers' market in Metuchen every Saturday. Somehow, I always forget to go there. But not today; today I did go, and I'm glad I did. I came back with a big loaf of olive ciabatta, a piece of goat cheese from a farm just out of town, a pound of almost-too-ripe nectarines to go with the goat cheese and the ciabatta, and several pounds of just-ripe-enough tomatoes that actually taste like tomatoes. I also got onions, and eggplants, and corn. I don't know yet if they, too, taste like onions, eggplants, and corn. But the other stuff I bought makes me very confident that they do; in any event, I intend to find out for sure by dinner time this evening.

And all that isn't even mentioning the social function that is the farmers' market. Although I'm usually a bit of a loner who doesn't get out much, I immediately clicked with the farmers I chatted and joked around with. (They were of the peace, love, and organic farming persuasion---just different enough from me to be interesting, just similar enough to be on the same wavelength.)

So, thanks for a delightful start into my weekend! I'll definitely back on the 24th, and maybe check out yours on the 17th.

When my youngest was a student at Lincoln School, across the street from McCall, he started a garden there.

Ive been supplying several restaurants with herbs and garnishes for a few years now. Im thinking of sectioning off a 10 acre parcel for use as a series ofc ommunity gardens , The only thing we cant figure out is how , and what way to charge "rent"for the use of the land (either some token cost or a small share of veggies for us so the gardeners will keep eaxch other policed (if something has an intrinsic value its taken care of really well) .

Around here, the AMish grow all sorts of standard veggies and fruits and sell them at stands and in our towns weekly farmers market. The prices they charge are reasonable and so we all aupport them . Qe get foods cheaper than commercial markets or the bigger "joiasey" type stands , where sweet corn goes for between 5 and 6 bucks a dozen. (The AMish sell em for about 3 and theres a limit you can buy or else the commercial buyers would be scarfin em up)