Eating only what grows around you

SoWal Insider

Jun 10, '08 · 6:36 PM3,871

I really liked this article. With the recent food scares, I'm thinking of doing something like this on a local level. If anyone wants to chime in about where to buy produce, meats, or anything else edible in Walton County post it here and I will post the article as soon as it's published in the Herald. :wave:

Once the purview of foodies and hippies, 'locavorism' is going mainstream

When Katherine Gray takes her kids to the grocery store, they can pick out as many apples and pears as their hearts desire. But bananas? Pineapples? Mangoes? Sorry kids, if they weren?t grown within 100 miles of Gray?s house in Portland, Ore., chances are they won?t make it into the grocery cart.For years, the idea of eating only food grown locally and in season was reserved for upscale chefs like Alice Waters of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., or serious hippies living off the grid, while the rest of us didn?t think twice about gulping down blueberries from Chile or avocadoes from Mexico.
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Darlene is my middle name, not my nickname

Jun 12, '08 · 8:58 AM#27

I have a bag full of fresh mater's and green onions from my daddy's garden. YUMMY!!!!! :clap:

Nothing like a homegrown mater sandwich!!!

Beach Fanatic

Jun 15, '08 · 9:32 PM#28

50"s and 60's? I grew up doing that in the 70's and 80's. I've shelled more peas, stringed and frenched more beans, and shucked, silked and creamed more corn than your average bear.

Fuzz and his cousin once came home from a visit to the family in NoWal with the bed of cousin's Ford Ranger filled with peas. Not peas in bags or buckets, the BACK OF THE TRUCK was full of peas. Loose.

Between cousin and his wife and Fuzz and me, we got about half of them shelled, blanched and put up before the rest sweated to death in the floor of our garage. My fingernails were black for at least a week. But, we had peas and cornbread all winter!

I miss those days... :wub:

SoWal Expert

Jun 15, '08 · 9:51 PM#29

Fuzz and his cousin once came home from a visit to the family in NoWal with the bed of cousin's Ford Ranger filled with peas. Not peas in bags or buckets, the BACK OF THE TRUCK was full of peas. Loose.

Between cousin and his wife and Fuzz and me, we got about half of them shelled, blanched and put up before the rest sweated to death in the floor of our garage. My fingernails were black for at least a week. But, we had peas and cornbread all winter!

I miss those days...

SN--Watch out. You just may be nominated to be a writer in the cookbook. Great story! :clap: