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Local Food Bloomington - PC Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05792933100510272821noreply@blogger.comBlogger113125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11918701.post-247679892467234632022-02-25T19:22:00.007-05:002022-03-06T20:00:00.845-05:00Garden Season Spring 2022<p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Local Food News – Spring 2022</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
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</span><p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><span><b>QUOTES
FOR THOUGHT</b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
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</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span><i><b>-*Sustainability
is a political choice, not a technical one. It’s not a question of
whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be” By Gary
Lawrence</b></i></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span><i><b>-*“Anything
else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t
breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do
something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely
critical moment in the history of our planet.”</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
By Carl Sagan</span></i></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span><i><b>-*-“Plans
to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans
to protect man.” By Stewart Udall</b></i></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
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</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>FOOD
WORD</b>–<b> </b><b>Chit</b></span> – to chit your potatoes comes from
the EU and means to set out potatoes in a warm place to sprout and
fatten the eyes (rather than have them grow leggy (my experience)
before planting.</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>-</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Indiana
Bee School XX </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>–
Feb. 26,2022 - </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Beekeepers
of Indiana </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Tomorrow</b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://indianabeekeeper.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">https://indianabeekeeper.com/</span></a></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">- <br /></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">-<b>Almanac’s
Planting Calendar</b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>-Organic
Seed </b><b>P</b><b>roduction</b> course set for March 20<sup>th</sup>,
2022</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://seedalliance.org/news/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">https://seedalliance.org/news/</span></a></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>-Indiana
Vegetable Planting Calendar</b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">The
Almanac has a great list for when to start seeds, when to transplant
and when to directly sow seeds.</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>-</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Planting
Calendar -
</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.almanac.com/gardening/planting-calendar/IN/Indianapolis"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">https://www.almanac.com/gardening/planting-calendar/IN/Indianapolis</span></a></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Vegetable
Gardening Information</b> - <a href="http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/HO-186.pdf">Indiana
Vegetable Planting Calendar</a><a href="http://www.ca.uky.edu/agc/pubs/id/id128/id128.pdf">Vegetable
Gardening Information</a></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOtO77yJEFSlB1HTLq54X2tUI91t8oAjXCioOdwUxT0VBcUhtUFoNGOAw1YQMd2eA_qJIeJwJhxeUGekE_bzQ_EZpvzWN9SAkzVusqdlPB-t7bkG3Bcp3pRlv3ylaKz2LibJ-vkqM1a9IBxphv4cihAAjQY95f7Q7mINdncZ1_qFtgrAUsV_U=s719" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="719" height="377" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOtO77yJEFSlB1HTLq54X2tUI91t8oAjXCioOdwUxT0VBcUhtUFoNGOAw1YQMd2eA_qJIeJwJhxeUGekE_bzQ_EZpvzWN9SAkzVusqdlPB-t7bkG3Bcp3pRlv3ylaKz2LibJ-vkqM1a9IBxphv4cihAAjQY95f7Q7mINdncZ1_qFtgrAUsV_U=w563-h377" width="563" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /> <i>Spring!!!
</i> May it bring lots of clarity, healing and gardens of abundance!</span></b></span><p></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>
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</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">The
last few years, I have been finding a new way for me to garden. I
appreciate the Seminole Squash and kale growing that has been done on
my behalf! Into to the yard garden, I planted a Yacon, Earth Apple
after having it circle my awareness for decades. Each time I read
about it, it called to mind those living with <span><span style="font-weight: normal;">diabetes,
</span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">and
more recently my attempts at creating accessible sweets with coconut
sugar and agave. Although it did not produce any little sunflower
like flowers (I think because </span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">it
was</span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">
planted so late in the </span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">season</span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">),
I was able to harvest and save the plants through the winter! </span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">This
year, I plan to grow many of them in containers. I’ll see how that
goes.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">The
bulk of my gardening has been done in containers. Last year, I
tested out a few very old seeds and to my amazed joy, ended up
growing out a container of the beautiful Whippoorwill Peas! I also
grew and saved a few other heirloom beans; started Black Hollyhocks,
grew a long living kale, strawberries, a few herbs and flowers for a
variety of uses including tea, seasonings and botanical dye. </span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiW5s9E61MMtFpz4gPU528BVtiLQovIRnoLVFFn_vFzdKShz3INXB1pgR1bdqfYMv6tIb11IABokWvCx9JaoQLexhDCUzs63ZIWSxKda3Xxy6wZgYXTUp8-1QB4okhfKIDtMl6gvh4oOGdvFOiIjraUifmDyZuofymhgPy8YqMTHqj58bN1TmM=s553" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="553" data-original-width="285" height="762" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiW5s9E61MMtFpz4gPU528BVtiLQovIRnoLVFFn_vFzdKShz3INXB1pgR1bdqfYMv6tIb11IABokWvCx9JaoQLexhDCUzs63ZIWSxKda3Xxy6wZgYXTUp8-1QB4okhfKIDtMl6gvh4oOGdvFOiIjraUifmDyZuofymhgPy8YqMTHqj58bN1TmM=w393-h762" width="393" /> </a></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">whippoorwill peas </span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">These peas came to america along with enslaved african peoples. this Pre-1700s heirloom variety is drought-tolerant and will grow in almost all soils. 5 ft. vines
produce extended harvests of 7-9 in. green pods. These Small seeds are light
brown with dark speckles.</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">I
am waiting to see how the kale made it through the winter out in the
unheated greenhouse. The Resina Calendula self-seeded so well, I
potted up the seedlings and covered them with bubble wrap and placed
on a top shelf inside of the greenhouse near a potted tier of
strawberries, also with the bubble wrap tent around it. The plants
seem to be alive and the strawberries had ripe fruit on the plants
into December! </span>
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</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">Container
garden season has continues through the winter with my choosing to
focus on my houseplants as pets. Oh my! So much cleaning to prepare
for recovery after my benign neglect! I have had to learn so much,
sometimes , it was beginning with plant identification, because
after twenty to thirty and more years, who knew where the original
name tags were.</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
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</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">With
the houseplants,<i> </i><i>food for my spirit</i> and recent seasons
of explorations into container gardening, I am learning and having a
few detour food adventures that have led me into what I hope is not a
food rabbit hole; Dragon Fruit! I love the <span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Hylocereus
Megalanthus, </span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Yellow
Dragon Fruit for eating and the amazing color of the red fruits.
</span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Many
people really enjoy the fragrant quality of the red. </span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
have become a Dragon Fruit Mama!</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">I</span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">t
is spring, a time to begin again. May we begin with love and
appreciation for our earth mother and grow something, offer care to
some aspect of our natural home and if possible, save a seed or two.
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">I
am saddened when I recall the seed varieties being saved and
available in the seventies and eighties and see fewer of them in the
seed catalogs. Foods, seed varieties available a hundred years past
have fallen out of memory and have not been maintained in our seed
repositories. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">What
are the best plants to grown in our gardens? The best plants will
always be heirlooms; heirlooms are plants that have stood the test of
time in relationship to our bioregion and grown in the region. This
may become even more important as climates shift with global warming.
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</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">When
purchasing seeds, go with open pollinated heirloom varieties because
these seeds are our genetic seed heritage, and organic when possible,
because less damage to our environment occurs with organic and
biodynamic gardening systems. </span>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">I am uplifted and hopeful because of
the work of preservation taken on by individuals in all places of
our earth! </span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">“<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>If
this country is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be
recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth but
not health” ~ Adelle Davis</b></span></p>
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<p align="center"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBlRQQwnqtd4OF2zbRnhi5Wsxj9TsD7PnCs-Z9N4g2y_CJOtERIkSie4JfI3kgnrc1Acsdn366Sg9TPLcWP4sivnl8AiMmwLAUaLTRNIWfvbnM8adDTFoMh-OmghWeQ99jwYgHdoWpN_K7Vm8gkwY5yUYcogzpkXmLdPsIrlATE3Ro6AN064E=s693" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="693" height="413" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBlRQQwnqtd4OF2zbRnhi5Wsxj9TsD7PnCs-Z9N4g2y_CJOtERIkSie4JfI3kgnrc1Acsdn366Sg9TPLcWP4sivnl8AiMmwLAUaLTRNIWfvbnM8adDTFoMh-OmghWeQ99jwYgHdoWpN_K7Vm8gkwY5yUYcogzpkXmLdPsIrlATE3Ro6AN064E=w550-h413" width="550" /></a> </b></span></span></p><p align="center">Summer Savory Seedlings<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What
are cool-season vegetables?</b> </span></span>
</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">They are plants perfect for springtime
weather. They can withstand light frosts and nighttime temperatures
above 40 degrees, but hot temperatures (above 80 degrees) will cause
them to go to seed and taste bitter.</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">Plant cool-season crops two to four
weeks before the last frost; around May 15 in the north and April 23
in the south. It is a great time to also begin your herbs.<br /></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>You may plant radishes, lettuces,
spinach, beets and any kind of peas and carrots from seed simply by
reading the package directions. For broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage
and onions, just buy plants to pop in the ground. Other green veggies
to try include parsnips, turnips, Swiss chard, kale and collards.</b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.purdue.edu/hla/sites/yardandgarden/publication/spring-gardening-stories/">https://www.purdue.edu/hla/sites/yardandgarden/publication/spring-gardening-stories/</a></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>-Living
Roots Farm and Organic Farm School</b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.livingroots.org/">https://www.livingroots.org/</a></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
</p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span><b>-Places
to visit in Indiana</b></span> -
<a href="https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/indiana/spring-garden-in/">https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/indiana/spring-garden-in/</a></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
</p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>-Indiana
Organic Gardeners Association</b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.gardeningnaturally.org/">https://www.gardeningnaturally.org/</a></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
</p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>-Indiana
Grown</b> - <a href="https://www.indianagrown.org/">https://www.indianagrown.org/</a></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>~~~</b></span></p><h1 class="mb-md-4"><span style="font-size: large;">Wylie House Museum to lead Indiana Heirloom Seed Savers Showcase and Exchange March 5, 2022<br /></span></h1><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://snworksceo.imgix.net/ids/2c3f2539-b542-4b02-a58a-f5fb76468238.sized-1000x1000.jpg?w=1000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="156" src="https://snworksceo.imgix.net/ids/2c3f2539-b542-4b02-a58a-f5fb76468238.sized-1000x1000.jpg?w=1000" width="233" /></a></span></div><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.idsnews.com/article/2022/02/bloomington-wylie-house-museum-indiana-heirloom-seed-savers-showcase-and-exchange " target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Wylie House Seed Show Case and Exchange </span></span></a></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>In
2021, the Wylie House Museum was caretaking a variety of herbs and
flowers – the list is here: </b></span>
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</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0.1in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://libraries.indiana.edu/2021-seed-list#content"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>https://libraries.indiana.edu/2021-seed-list#content</b></span></a></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIZR738Gq8m1UHKzhMLJbOTFjcmFLzWRgbK3u4B_awnbVONhFVwnuF6QmRngmPIUrcViHyb0NveNqxd_hBMmKsgKDJgXoufZ_P2u5GsEg_oZ2XdhZQuwqITi3Qup3ekagXaLPh6y7sFLHrDRVjoq0vdPC-9o3OicsOw6ch4C0lH9eOniOPxs8=s560" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="420" height="669" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIZR738Gq8m1UHKzhMLJbOTFjcmFLzWRgbK3u4B_awnbVONhFVwnuF6QmRngmPIUrcViHyb0NveNqxd_hBMmKsgKDJgXoufZ_P2u5GsEg_oZ2XdhZQuwqITi3Qup3ekagXaLPh6y7sFLHrDRVjoq0vdPC-9o3OicsOw6ch4C0lH9eOniOPxs8=w502-h669" width="502" /></a> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Yacon in the fall<br />
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>QUESTION
–<span style="font-family: verdana;"> What is a Yacon?</span></b> </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><style type="text/css"><font size="4">p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 115%; background: transparent }em { font-style: italic }a:link { color: #000080; so-language: zxx; text-decoration: underline }</font></style><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Yacon
root looks like a sweet potato, but it has a completely different
taste, texture, and nutrient profile. This tuber has a creamy
white-yellow color and a uniquely refreshing taste that's similar to
apple, watermelon, and celery combined. Unlike a sweet potato, yacon
is often eaten raw and contains no starch.</b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Yacon
root, or </b><b>Smallanthus
sonchifolius</b><b>,
comes from the Andean mountains of South America, growing as far
north as Colombia and as far south as Argentina. Yacon is sometimes
called strawberry jicama as the two root vegetables are similar.
Other common names for yacon are Peruvian ground apple, poire de
terre, yacon strawberry, and Bolivian sunroot.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> </b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b> ~Seed Savers Alliance</b><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">https://seedalliance.org/2021/can-i-save-my-seed/</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
</p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>~Indiana
Organic Gardener’s Association</b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">https://www.gardeningnaturally.org/</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
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</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">-</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Check
out the </span><span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span>Seed
Savers Exchange </span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span>for
great resources</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span>
- </span></span></span><a href="https://www.seedsavers.org/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">https://www.seedsavers.org/</span></a><span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
</span></span><span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">and
seek our certified organic open pollinated seed sources.</span></span><span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
</span></span></b></span>
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</span><h2 class="western"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://civileats.com/2022/01/27/op-ed-saving-heirloom-seeds-can-protect-crop-diversity/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span>Saving
Heirloom Seeds Can Protect Crop Diversity</span></span></a></span></h2><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">By <a href="https://civileats.com/author/hacurry/">Helen
Anne Curry, The Conversation</a></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">Beyond seed banks, saving seeds and
cultivating local varieties may help feed us in our climate-changed
future—and preserve them for future generations. </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://civileats.com/2022/01/27/op-ed-saving-heirloom-seeds-can-protect-crop-diversity/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">https://civileats.com/2022/01/27/op-ed-saving-heirloom-seeds-can-protect-crop-diversity/</span></a></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">-<b>Ark of Taste in the
USA</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">Since 1996, more than 3,500 products
from over 150 countries have been added to the International Ark of
Taste. <b>Over 200 of these foods are from the USA</b>, and we
are always seeking more edible treasures to include. </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">https://slowfoodusa.org/ark-of-taste/</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>-Brown County Seed Project</b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrownCountySeedProject">https://www.facebook.com/BrownCountySeedProject</a></b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>-Heirloom SEED SWAP – JANUARY 28<sup>th</sup>,
2023</b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://hcmga.org/public-education/heirloom-seeds-program/seed-swap"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">https://hcmga.org/public-education/heirloom-seeds-program/seed-swap</span></a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Perhaps there will be more Seed Swaps to list!</span></b></i></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span><b>IN
FOOD NEWS</b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span>
</p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b><span>~</span></b><b><span>We
lose a vital resource with every heirloom that goes extinct </span></b><b><span>and
</span></b><b><span>threaten
our food supply. </span></b><span><b>Heirloom
vegetables are vital to our future and yet they </b></span><span><b>have
been</b></span><span><b>
disappearing by the hundreds </b></span><span><b>since
the USDA’s catalog </b></span><span><b>of
foods </b></span><span><b>in the
early 1900’s</b></span><span><b>.</b></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span><b> </b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>-List
of 12 Common Foods that May </b><b><b>B</b></b><b>ecome
Extinct Due to Climate Change</b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">https://spoonuniversity.com/lifestyle/these-12-foods-may-become-extinct-in-our-lifetimes</span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>~Are
we eating ourselves to extinction?</b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/17/are-we-eating-ourselves-to-extinction"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/17/are-we-eating-ourselves-to-extinction</span></a></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span>
</p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>~Titanium
Dioxide Ban from foods in EU</b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">Prof Maged Younes, Chair
of EFSA’s expert Panel on Food Additives and
Flavourings (FAF), said: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>“Taking
into account all available scientific studies and
data, the Panel concluded that titanium dioxide can
no longer be considered safe as a </b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><dfn><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>food
additive</b></span></dfn><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>. A critical element in
reaching this conclusion is that we could
not exclude </b></span><dfn><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>genotoxicity</b></span></dfn><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>
concerns after consumption of titanium
dioxide particles. After oral ingestion, the absorption of
titanium dioxide particles is low, however they can
accumulate in the body”.</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/news/titanium-dioxide-e171-no-longer-considered-safe-when-used-food-additive"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/news/titanium-dioxide-e171-no-longer-considered-safe-when-used-food-additive</span></a></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Further
information</b> - <b>Titanium dioxide ban comes into force, companies
have six months to adjust </b></span>
</p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">https://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/titanium-dioxide-ban-comes-into-force-companies-have-six-months-to-adjust.html</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
</p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><h1 class="western"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span>~</span><span>Roundup
Cancer Lawsuit - Monsanto Roundup Lawsuit</span></span></h1><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><div dir="ltr" id="text_block-302-17460"><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">Monsanto
Roundup weed killer is supposed to kill weeds but instead it could
be causing cancer and killing people</span></p>
</div><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">On
Thursday, February 24 2022 at 10:00 AM there will be a hearing about
<a href="https://apps.cand.uscourts.gov/CEO/cfd.aspx?7150" target="_blank">Roundup
Products Liability Litigation MDL No. 02741</a> with The honorable
judge Vince Chhabria (Applegate v. Bayer AG, Motion for Judgment on
the Pleadings).</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
</p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">Investors
are demanding nearly $2.5 billion from Bayer AG in a <a href="https://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20220104/STORY/912346958/Bayer-faces-%2425-billion-class-action-lawsuit-in-Germany-over-Roundup" target="_blank">potential
German class-action lawsuit</a> over Bayer’s $63 billion
acquisition of U.S. company Monsanto. The investors claim that Bayer
deceived them about the risks of pending U.S. consumer lawsuits
related to Monsanto’s infamous Roundup weed-killer.</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/bayer-bid-to-end-roundup-suits-draws-u-s-supreme-court-inquiry</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
</p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span><b>~Community
Resources</b></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><span><b> </b></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span><b>-Food
Pantries Bloomington, Indiana Area</b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span><i><b><a href="https://www.foodpantries.org/ci/in-bloomington">https://www.foodpantries.org/ci/in-bloomington</a></b></i></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>-Peoples
Market – Bloomington</b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.peoplesmarketbtown.org/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">https://www.peoplesmarketbtown.org/</span></a></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">\</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>-Bloomington
Community Orchard</b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://bloomingtoncommunityorchard.org/site/">https://bloomingtoncommunityorchard.org/site/</a></b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
</p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span><b>-Bloomington
Community Gardens</b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://bloomington.in.gov/parks/community-gardening"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span><b>https://bloomington.in.gov/parks/community-gardening</b></span></span></a></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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Sometime after the previous posting, I was locked out of my Blogger. I thought I would never get in; I’d reached a point where I could only hope that Blogger would eventually delete the blog. Finally, after not attempting sign in for many weeks, I decided to go at it once again, and yes, I am here because I was able to finally receive that G-code. I didn’t want the previous posting to be the last thing published to this Local Food blog. </p><p>This post is sort of about food, but of the kind of food that supports the spirit and mental well being of community. </p><p>I begin again. Kroger – the problem being attributed to the technological malfunctioning. Specific questions I posed to the representative employee were responded to by referring me to their corporate statement. It took a while before I could enter any of their stores again; and I seek to never be in store alone, and my exit is slow to make sure that the “machines” have okayed my purchase. May my experience, and Kroger’s offering results and understandings, be experienced through all Kroger management connections. May all the minds and hearts involved be open to healing and healed. </p><p>What a shit storm we are currently living through as our nation goes through a world pandemic and an important social and political recconing! I have always, yes, always believed that we (holding to our national principles) could face our misrepresented past with truth and integrity and not fall prey to the bulley pulpet and adopt true national history atrocities. I never on my worst days imagined that I would live to see persons who say they are for the US move forth an insurrection; and that even as I write this some who do not show support of our democratic principles are attempting to rewrite the story. Perhaps Alzheimers or fear has taken hold on these politicians, and they have forgotten oaths taken to stand for the people, and pledges made to their constituents and the nation, and now with clay feet can set aside truth, honor and justice to censure truth speakers. </p><p>Our nations tattered past story is being outed and presented for the cast system it is. I recall asking a history teacher back in the sixties what the difference was between India’s cast system and the legislated systemic system in the US. They looked the same to me. I was told that I did not understand. Even then, I knew that it was she who did not understand. </p><p>We, the people, have the opportunity to “do the work” to cleanse our nations palate and heal the dishonest and dishonerable past foundation story and replace it with truth. We have the stregnth necessary to do the tough inner and outer work for our national healing. Not an easy task in any way, yet essential that we reach for it. </p><p>I think that the majority of people want a unified country and are willing to explore ways to heal and make this happen. Many understand that supression of others and is not an allowable option. Many realzie how much of their self has to be reduced (is shamed) to hold another down because when someone supresses another because of unconscious or conscious entitlement, they, the surpressor is holding themselves right down there too. </p><p>It is time to let go of the shameful past story and actively reach for what I imagine most want; abundance of joy, love, kindness, health, home, community of wellbeing, regeneration and uplift for every home and on every plate in the kitchen. What a melting pot of a smorgasboard of resources we have to feast upon! </p><p>It is clear that we as a nation, and planet are up against the wall and the “bozo’s”. The real vampires are coming out of closets ready to strike at any who threaten the green blood supply. Either we will love ourselves, love our children and theirs yet to come, love our country and our planet home enough to put our collective energies toward the care and necessary shift work to move this country forward and long term, so that we can continue as the human race. </p><p>Those who cultivate division do so as a necessary distraction and thankfully, more people seem to recognize current actions targeting voting access as acts of desperation; attempts to limit the voice of the people. Acts of fear. Limiting the voice of the people by representatives who are supposed to be representing all constituents is, from my view a relinquishing of sworn national responsibilities so that unsustainable ideas and institutions can continue grasping to ideas that are infertile seeds. </p><p> Our nation stood against the cast system of India and the segregation within South Africa and continue to wage wars all over the globe in the name of democratic principles (and resources). I have watched, I have listened, and I have questioned and asked through more than half a century of decades, when will the same efforts for justice and equality be taken by the US government to secure the rights of American citizens whether Indigeneous, stollen into slavery or imigrant? Silence regarding unequal treatment is never an option. We as a nation have a great opportunity to love forward. </p><p>Our energies can go toward connecting, healing, stregnthening and rejuvination.
I think that most people are ready to balance and heal the collective spirit of this nation because many still hold to an American Dream. Our nations principles are held as an ideal to work toward. I hope that we understand that a shadow will remain across our country as long as we do not not look honestly at our historical past and actively allow the nation’s healing to begin. </p><p>New humanstory books are being written to offer a truthful and inclusive American foundation and development story. Someday, sooner than later, I hope that America will get over fear of its real back story; that we as a nation can move forward with the real American her/history in the hands of all of our students. We are more together.
Together, we human beings, have a potential beyond extinction; we have the potential for regeneration and the creation of an amazing country fruited by our collective efforts. </p><p>There is much work to be done. Let’s make steaming piles of compost out of fear, deception, ignorance and hate. Feed a love that nurtures heart, mind, body, family, community, country, planet; there is much love; yes there is love in action here in America, and upon the earth. Our survival as a species depends on our being a loving kind, the health of our nation depends on us growing up, growing together, and becoming a regenerative loving kind. </p><p>End Note: 63 Suffragists of Color Quilt, a commemorative quilt made in celebration of suffragist was recently on exhibit in the Grunwald Gallery in the Eskanazi Museum with a Voters Timeline for People of Color. You can read a little about the quilt here. <a href="https://quilterscomfort.blogspot.com/">https://quilterscomfort.blogspot.com/</a> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Key words
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I really wanted to participate in a COUNCIL OF ALL BEINGS to celebrate today. Alas that may have to wait until I am in the Turtle Dome. <br />
Today, I thinking of Lucille Bertuccio, a founder of the Center for Sustainable Living and the ceremonies we faciliated together and the training classes I presented to the IU graduates during Environmental Education in the Ourdoors classes at Hilltop. Local Food was a project of the CSL during that time. If you don't know about the Council of All Beings, check out the Book "Thinking Like a Mountain - Toward a Council of All Beings" by Joanna Macy and John Seed. I hope to have the opportunity to facilitate this ritual to a future generation of Council Presenters. <br />
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Many communities are experiencing an absence of yeast. There are lots of great detailed videos out there. This is to share how easy it is to develop your own sourdough starter. You will need a lot more patience as there is a lot of rising time to get the elevation many are used to. Don't expect the same rise in whole grain bakes because they will be delicious, but always a bit denser because they contain more nutrients than white flours. <br />
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I/Local Food am still here. It seems really ironic that Local Food/Green Dove went offline at a time when local food as a resource has become extreamly important. Folks will have to turn now to the farmers and gardeners who have been working steadily to bring local foods to communities. Many are waking up to the idea that local food security is a real issue and that this basic need is threatened in a way only imagined in science fiction. Speaking of sci-fi, I have been asked if this virus is a possible result of the chemical soup of gmo agri-business or who knows what. I only know that we are here at this crossroads, and that many have become or are becoming really aware of what foods are important to them and how they regularly access those foods. <br />
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Many have turned, (using store shelves as as my basis) to traditional staples of dried fruits, nuts, grains, legumes, seeds, oils, pastas, canned goods; simple foods of high nutritional value that can be easily stored for periods of time and useful in a variety of cooking styles. <br />
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I am grateful to every food store that is open. I wish for everyone to be safe. Wear a mask when out in the world even if you don't believe it necessary because it may save your or another person's life. I do not like wearing the mast, but when I need to shop, I wear one. Do this little thing that seems to have a huge impact.<br />
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Though not food, I am wondering why the building trades in my town are still working? I could see if they were rushing to get homes for the needy citizens, but that is not the case. <br />
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<br />Local Food Bloomington - PC Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05792933100510272821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11918701.post-52651767560006530952020-02-29T15:38:00.002-05:002020-02-29T15:38:28.074-05:00Looking for Local Food and Green Dove?<span style="font-size: large;">Looking for Local Food Bloomington and maybe Green Dove? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> When things are all sorted out, we (meaning me, has) have a new address! Local Food Information - https://localfoodinformation.net/localfood. My food post will focus more on the home table. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am not sure if I will bring Green Dove back. I don't have the heart or the energy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I will be posting here as a check in for Local Food as it becomes Local Food Information. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am setting up interviews with people on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOmpQa78iKnZadCaMcMRiQQ" target="_blank">Wellness Arts - CREATIVELY BEING Chanel</a>, and there will be a mixture of creative interest and definitely, there will be food and art and I hope song and laughter and good story! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Recipes, including the Persimmon Biscuit recipe be up with the rest of Local Food Bloomington website. In time, if I do anything, all the resource information will shift to Local Food Information. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Though not recipes, you can <a href="https://www.instagram.com/localfoodbloomington" target="_blank">see my food</a>. I welcome your questions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope to get the Local Food pages up on the Local Food Information website as soon as I get the ftp sorted out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Local Food Bloomington - PC Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05792933100510272821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11918701.post-18165681247282570272019-06-02T10:22:00.002-04:002019-10-27T06:11:27.832-04:00Local Food on Instagram<br />
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life and on the web. Local Food, for reasons of wellness, must change. I
admit that I do resist, because I fear stepping too far away from the
public pathways; not because I will be forgotten, but because it
would be lonely for me. Because of my interest, I am alone much, and
I love being around people and miss opportunities to do so because of
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes, I end up posting food images to my art/life page <a href="https://www.instagram.com/patriciaccolemanart" target="_blank">@patriciaccolemanart</a> on Instagram. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In this letting go for wellness is the need for what I refer to as my
dome home (an environmental build). Want to know more about Turtle Dome, go to <a href="http://aircretebuilds.blogspot.com/">Aircrete
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Want to help right now? <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/help-patricia-save-health-with-home" target="_blank">Click to donate to crownd funding campaign! </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have always been a giver. I love and appreciate many things! Asking for help for myself, particularly when in a health crisis, is very challenging. </span></span></div>
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Local Food Bloomington - PC Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05792933100510272821noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11918701.post-39897045407038638502019-02-10T20:33:00.003-05:002019-02-10T20:33:49.019-05:00Indiana Bee School XVII is Almost Here!<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh
Boy, it's Bee School time!! What a super school we have planned this
year. With two outstanding speakers, you can expect the school to fill
up early. Each year we max out and disappoint those that call after the
cutout. Don’t be disappointed, register early. Cost is $35 for
members and $45 for non-members. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Bee School will be held on
February 23, 2019, at Decatur Central High School, 5251 Kentucky Avenue,
Indianapolis, Indiana 46221.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are the <a class="" href="http://indianabeekeeper.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Indiana_Bee_School_XVII_Directions.17184059.pdf" target="_blank" type="4">directions</a>
to the school and hotels. Folder pickup starts at 7:00 a.m. (EST),
with the program starting promptly at 8:30 a.m. and concluding around
5:00 p.m. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With wonderful local and national speakers, super
topics, great lunch and hundreds of beekeepers that we haven’t seen
since the previous year, we seem to get bigger and better and this year
will be no exception.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a data-mce-href="/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/2019_Bee_School_Agenda.1285032.pdf" href="http://indianabeekeeper.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/2019_Bee_School_Agenda.1285032.pdf" target="_blank" type="4">Click here</a> for the current agenda.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For
the first time ever, we have two first time guest speakers for the
Indiana Bee School. Dr. Tom Seeley is from Cornell University, and Jeff
Pettis is a Research Scientist with Pettis and Associates. See "<em>Our Guest Speaker</em>" on the right for more information.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To download the paper form and mail it in, <a data-mce-href="/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Indiana_Bee_School_XVII_Registration_Form.300214555.pdf" href="http://indianabeekeeper.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Indiana_Bee_School_XVII_Registration_Form.300214555.pdf" target="_blank" type="4">click here</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To register online, <a class="internallink" data-mce-href="/contact_us/2019_bee_school_registration" href="http://indianabeekeeper.com/contact_us/2019_bee_school_registration" type="2">click here</a>.</span></span><br />
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this reason, </span></span></span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">we
are thrilled to host writer/director Nia DaCosta in Bloomington on
1/31 and 2/1 for a screening </span></span></span></span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">of her debut feature film and an
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Film Festival</span></span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
calls DaCosta "a name you're gonna need to get familiar with,"
and we couldn't agree more! Her impressive debut feature, LITTLE
WOODS, won the <a href="https://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/award-screening-nora-ephron-prize-2018" target="_blank">Nora
Ephron Award</a> for ‘spirited and bold’ storytelling at Tribeca
and stars <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1935086/" target="_blank">Tessa
Thompson</a> and <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4141252/" target="_blank">Lily
James</a>. The film expertly addresses a range of timely
topics including the opioid crisis, sexual violence, women’s
reproductive rights, poverty, and healthcare. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">DaCosta
is scheduled to be present for a Q&A after our 1/31 screening of
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Tickets are $4 for IUB students and $7 for non-students and can be
purchased online <a href="https://am.ticketmaster.com/iucinema/" target="_blank">here</a>,
at the <a href="http://www.iuauditorium.com/events/box-office-information" target="_blank">IU
Auditorium Box Office</a>, or in the IU Cinema lobby beginning one
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Local Food Bloomington - PC Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05792933100510272821noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11918701.post-69879277633042187192018-12-29T05:17:00.001-05:002018-12-29T10:12:55.992-05:00Growing for Seed, N.A. Sustainable Foods Summit 2019 & 39th EcoFarm Conference<div style="text-align: center;">
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OSA’s Micaela Colley and hosts Viva Farms for an evening workshop on
small scale seed production and seed saving. Gain the tools you need to
start growing and saving seed with a focus on work with culturally
significant varieties. Spanish translation will be available. </span></div>
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workshop will be held on January 15, 2019, and is being offered free of
charge thanks to support from the <a href="https://seedssoilculture.org/">New Field Foundation Seeds, Soil and Culture Fund</a>. Pre-registration is requested. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_1910655117"> </a></span><a href="https://seedalliance.org/events/seed-production-mt-vernon/">https://seedalliance.org/events/seed-production-mt-vernon/</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The<b> North American </b>Sustainable Foods Summit will be
hosted in San Francisco on 16-17th January 2019. Other editions in
this international series will take place in <a href="http://www.sustainablefoodssummit.com/lamerica/" target="_blank">Latin
America</a> (São Paulo, 29-30th November), <a href="http://sustainablefoodssummit.com/europe/" target="_blank">Europe</a>
(Amsterdam, 13-14th June 2019) and the <a href="http://sustainablefoodssummit.com/asia/" target="_blank">Asia-Pacific</a>.
Each edition will bring together some of the most influential
organizations involved in sustainability and eco-labels in the food
industry. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The aim of the Sustainable Foods Summit is to explore new horizons
for <b>eco-labels and sustainability </b>in the food
industry by discussing key industry issues. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">How do organic, fairtrade
and other eco-labeling schemes further sustainability? </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With growing
proliferation in labels, what are the prospects for a single
sustainability standard for food products? </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What are the practical
application of sustainability metrics? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What advances are occurring in
sustainable ingredients? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What developments are happening in
formulation, production and marketing of sustainable food and
beverages? </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Such questions are regularly addressed at this
international series of summits.
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</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Sustainable Foods Summit is devised for key stake-holders in
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</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Please <a href="http://www.sustainablefoodssummit.com/northamerica/contact-us/">contact
us </a>for more details.
<a href="http://www.sustainablefoodssummit.com/northamerica/contact-us/">http://www.sustainablefoodssummit.com/northamerica/contact-us/</a></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Organized by Ecovia Intelligence (formerly Organic Monitor), the
Sustainable Foods Summit is a <b>climate-neutral event</b>. The
carbon footprint of each edition is determined by calculating the
carbon and greenhouses gases. These emissions are offset by investing
in soil composting and / or related projects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">January 23, 2019 -
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Ecological Farming Association (EcoFarm)
presents the 39th annual EcoFarm Conference January 23-26, 2019 in
Pacific Grove, CA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The event features 70+ workshops, intensives,
keynote sessions, an exhibitor marketplace, and special events
including an annual awards banquet, tastings, seed swap, live
entertainment, and organic culinary fare. Workshops offer practical
and cutting-edge information on crop production, livestock, soil
health, marketing, distribution, and food systems. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As the oldest and largest organic farming
conference in the West, EcoFarm is a prime networking and educational
hub for farmers, ranchers, distributors, retailers, activists,
researchers, and educators.</span> <a href="https://eco-farm.org/conference">https://eco-farm.org/conference</a></div>
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Local Food Bloomington - PC Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05792933100510272821noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11918701.post-36488982854516811562018-11-15T07:14:00.003-05:002018-11-15T07:14:41.945-05:00 Quilter's Comfort and Wilderlove Farm Indiana Grown Members<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: x-small;">Quilter's Comfort, L.A.O. Organics is a member if Indiana Grown featuring their certified organic nightshade free seasonings and herbal teas. Another local,Wilderlove
Farm, a family farm organically growing vegetables
on approximately 1/4 of an acre also became a member of Indiana Grown in October. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: x-small;">Indiana
Grown is a state initiative that promotes growers of
all types, food and beverage producers, sellers and
agritourism. Its members include a wide variety of farmers,
farmers markets, distributors, producers, processors,
wineries, breweries, artisans, as well as retailers,
grocers, hospitals, restaurants and more. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: x-small;">Quilter's Comfort is also a new member of Equity at the Table (EATT) - </span> an easy-to-navigate database for food industry professionals
featuring only women/gender non-conforming individuals and focusing
primarily on POC and the LGBTQ community.<br />
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<a href="https://www.wilderlovefarm.com/" target="_blank">https://www.wilderlovefarm.com</a>/<br />
<a href="http://www.indianagrown.org/" target="_blank">http://www.indianagrown.org</a>/</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://equityatthetable.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: x-small;"> https://equityatthetable.com/</span></a></span>Local Food Bloomington - PC Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05792933100510272821noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11918701.post-39806651444613422732018-10-06T12:39:00.000-04:002018-10-06T12:39:03.823-04:00Indiana Food Freedom Legislation<header class="entry-header"><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline">
Indiana Food Freedom</h1>
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By <span class="entry-author" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a class="entry-author-link" href="https://www.farmtoconsumer.org/blog/author/katherine/" itemprop="url" rel="author"><span class="entry-author-name" itemprop="name">Katherine Ghantous</span></a></span> | <time class="entry-time" datetime="2018-09-19T14:20:03+00:00" itemprop="datePublished">September 19, 2018</time></div>
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<time class="entry-time" datetime="2018-09-19T14:20:03+00:00" itemprop="datePublished">Reprinted from <a href="https://www.farmtoconsumer.org/blog/2018/09/19/indiana-food-freedom/" target="_blank">Farm to Consumer Legal Defense </a></time></div>
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Indiana Senator Greg Walker announced that he will propose The Indiana Freedom in Homemade Food Contracting Act, also known as The Indiana Food Freedom Act, in the upcoming session of the Indiana State Legislature. The Indiana Food Freedom Act seeks to allow small-scale producers to make foods for sale in their home (or farm) kitchens, creating greater access for consumers to healthy, local foods. Additionally, advocates of the bill anticipate it will offer a boost to the agricultural economy and encourage sales for ranchers, farms, and home-based producers.<br />
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This bill will take a somewhat different approach from other food freedom bills in that it will require a formal, contractual agreement between the producers and consumers permitting the sale of foods prepared in unlicensed and uninspected private kitchens and farms. The contract will have to be signed and notarized, and there will be a one-week waiting period between the signing and any food exchanging hands. This requirement is presumably intended to address some of the common objections to food freedom bills by creating a barrier to so-called more casual transactions where consumers have not had time for significant thought before purchasing.<br />
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The Indiana Food Freedom Act is the latest legislative effort to strengthen Indiana’s local food system. In 2014 Indiana passed Senate Bill 179 (<a href="http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2014/bills/senate/179/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><b>SB 179</b></a>), known as The Poultry Bill, which expands on-farm poultry processing in the state; the bill also eliminated regulation from county health departments over poultry, rabbit, and egg sales direct to the consumer. Additionally, Indiana has legalized the on-farm slaughter and processing of rabbits and amended a regulation on wild pigs ensuring that heritage breed hog farmers are no longer a potential target of the law.<br />
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<b>Importance of Food Freedom </b></h3>
Food freedom and cottage food laws are designed to free small-batch producers from the often arduous licensing requirements required of larger commercial operations, as long as they are selling direct to consumers. These laws recognize that direct producer-to-consumer transactions have a transparency and accountability that is not present when food is produced and distributed on a massive scale. Consider that all of the major recalls and large-scale outbreaks have occurred in the conventional system, under inspection by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), or their state agency equivalents. Re-connecting food producers and consumers and decentralizing our food system restores integrity and increases food safety in the long run.<br />
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<b>Call to Action</b></h3>
If you live in Indiana, you can help this bill become a reality! Find out who your State Representative and Senator are at <a href="http://iga.in.gov/legislative/find-legislators/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><strong>www.iga.in.gov</strong></a>. Then call their offices and urge them to support the food freedom bill in the upcoming legislative session. And stay in contact with their office throughout the session because building a relationship with your legislators is vital to successful, long-term change.<br />
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If you’re in another state and know of a good bill (whether it is to promote cottage foods, food freedom, raw milk, egg sales, or other), <a href="https://members.farmtoconsumer.org/general/?type=CONTACT&_ga=2.106975558.537819533.1537367260-1247634685.1535033948" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><b>let us know</b></a>! We’ll help spread the word and generate grassroots support for it. For <a href="https://members.farmtoconsumer.org/general/register_member_type.asp" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><b>members</b></a>, FTCLDF also offers consultations on policy development and strategy.<br />
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Bloomingfoods matters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve asked a few people to tell me a few good things about Bloomingfoods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of these folks have decades of experience with the Coop and are also member-owners of the store. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I encourage you to share your own reasons why Bloomingfoods matters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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- Bloomingfoods and Coop was founded in 1975 and laid the foundation for the mega organics and bulk foods now being sold and consumed in Bloomington, Indiana and in most other communities across the nation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone realizes that Bfoods is in a major shift time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What happens to the foundation of healthier foods truly depends upon the community of its members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if you have been hurt by some past experience, that is just it, a past experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s all grow on and up otherwise we step aside and allow mega corporation dollars to roll over the foundations of local foods in communities as it forces its way across the nation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Those very same corporations that now have their own organic brands previously spent huge sums of money working to deflect <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and destroy coops, organic standards and GMO regulations for the healthy foods markets here and in other countries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The Coop is a store that has played a role in supporting some local growers and farmers and vendors and made the welfare of growers everywhere a priority.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bloomingfoods created educational and community opportunities fostering the understanding of healthy food for healthy people and healthy community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For decades Bloomingfoods has nurtured the seeds of sustainable community. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I asked a few folks to tell me a couple of good things and here is some of what was offered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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-- it's the one that matters most, and that no big chain can match</div>
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--it is earthy and offers community and a sense of belonging</div>
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-- there is so much for shoppers and members to like:</div>
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---I can buy favorite foods, even kombu from Japan!</div>
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--It is a store where you LOVE to run into friends</div>
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--of the fact that Bfoods is of the community, for the community</div>
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--the staff for whom this is more than a job</div>
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-- if I don't like something about Bloomingfoods, I have the power to try to change it</div>
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--It matters that Bloomingfoods is owned and run by members of our community.</div>
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--the big variety of local and organic foods</div>
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--good food equals good health which equals longer life expectancy</div>
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Bloomingfoods Coop has offered and continues to create employment opportunities that connects community through owner membership and education and this has been part of the national muscle that works to educate and obtain protective regulations regarding organics, GMO’s, Monsanto’s pesticides and food labeling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our Coop has been invaluable in community building and local foods education in particular and the organization worked diligently with local groups and individuals to develop and strengthen our local Farmers Market, Tuesday and Wednesday Farmers Market as well as the Winter Farmers Market.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Bloomingfoods Coop is here because a small group of local people received a loan from, I think Cathy Canada, a then local because they valued having healthy organic and bulk foods available in the community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cooperative membership has grown to more than twelve thousand member owners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These members and the community at large will decide what happens to the mother and father of organics, bulk and whole foods in Bloomington.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I hope that every small business is paying attention because this pattern of destroying or neglecting locally owned small businesses in favor of those with large purses is truly death to communities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Check out what membership means at Bloomingfoods Coop <a href="https://www.bloomingfoods.coop/members/">https://www.bloomingfoods.coop/members/</a></div>
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I want to believe that people in this and other community’s want more connections with their foods than a faceless corporation can ever give.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope that the people here want stores that nurture and ultimately will try to stay within our community when times are tough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Local Food Bloomington - PC Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05792933100510272821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11918701.post-75417525466181742182018-01-27T08:16:00.000-05:002018-01-27T08:16:04.635-05:00Fungicide Attracts Honeybees<br />
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When given the choice, honey bee foragers prefer to collect sugar syrup laced with the fungicide chlorothalonil over sugar syrup alone, researchers report in the journal <em>Scientific Reports</em>.</div>
The puzzling finding comes on the heels of other studies linking fungicides to declines in honey bee and wild bee populations. One recent study, for example, found parallels between the use of chlorothalonil and the presence of Nosema bombi, a fungal parasite, in bumble bees. Greater chlorothalonil use also was linked to range contractions in four declining bumble bee species.<br />
Other research has shown that European honey bees have a very limited repertoire of detoxifying enzymes and that exposure to one potentially toxic compound -- including fungicides -- can interfere with their ability to metabolize others.<br />
"People assume that fungicides affect only fungi," said University of Illinois entomology professor and department head May Berenbaum, who led the new research with postdoctoral researcher Ling-Hsiu Liao. "But fungi are much more closely related to animals than they are to plants. And toxins that disrupt physiological processes in fungi can also potentially affect them in animals, including insects."<br />
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<b> the Heirloom Expo - September 5<sup>th</sup>
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7th annual National Heirloom Exposition on <span class="aqj">September
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We are again seeking volunteers to help us spread the word. We need your
help especially if you live on the West Coast and would like to distribute
brochures to let people know about the expo, please email us at<span style="color: violet;"> </span><a href="mailto:info@theheirloomexpo.com"><span style="color: #38761d;"><strong></strong></span></a><strong><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">info@theheirloomexpo.com</a></strong>.
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The National Heirloom Expo features three full days of nationally and
internationally acclaimed speakers that include Vandana Shiva, Ronnie Cummins,
Jeffrey Smith, Robert Kennedy, Jr., along with many more. More than 4000
varieties of local produce will by displayed. Purchase gardening
supplies, seeds, sustainable living goods, and so much more from 300 vendors.
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Summer definitely arrived early in Indiana. Many June plants are in resplendant glory, while others have already exited the scene, chickory is beginning a season of full on bloom, perrenial Butterfly Weed, Asclepias tuberosa, joins the color show with its dynamic orange! The early heat and many heavy storms has been a challenge to plants and local growers. One good thing thus far is that farmers have already had one early harvest of their hay fields.<br />
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There are formidable social, economic and environmental reasons why it
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The manner in which the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC)
recently cleared the proposal for genetically modified (GM) mustard is
extraordinary to say the least. It makes a mockery of the commitment in the
Bharatiya Janata Party manifesto that “GM foods will not be allowed without
full scientific evaluation on the long term effects on soil, production and
biological impact on consumers”. The Prime Minister had delighted consumers by
lending his weight to the promotion of organic food. On the other hand, GM and
organic are completely incompatible.<br />
The alluring promises of higher yield and lower pesticide usage which
induced many, including myself as Textile Secretary to the Government of India
in the 1990s, to welcome Bt cotton have now been belied. Despite increased
fertilisers and irrigation, the expectations of enhanced cotton yield have not
been realised. Most of the countries that have higher cotton yields than India
do not grow GM cotton. The package of promises sold to us did not reveal all of
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Yields as a touchstone</h2>
We would now be foolish in accepting the yield promises of the GM variety of
mustard, a crop which is an integral part of every Indian’s food. <i>Ab initio
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reliable — being based on comparisons with 30-year-old cultivars, and not on
more recent high-yielding hybrids. The highest yields in mustard are from the
five countries which do not grow GM mustard — U.K.,
France, Poland,
Germany and Czech
Republic — and not from the GM-growing U.S.
or Canada (<i>see
graph based on FAO data</i>). If India
is desirous to increase its mustard yield rapidly and safely, this can be done
by adopting the practice of System of Mustard Intensification, for which
successful trials have been done in Bihar through a
World Bank project. Results showed higher yields and better income. All this
without the spraying of any toxic herbicides, which is the undisclosed story of
GM mustard.<br />
GM mustard’s yield increase claims have been successfully challenged now,
prompting the crop developers and regulators to retract on that front — it is
another matter that many reports continue to claim that GM mustard will
increase yields.<br />
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Gaps in evaluation</h2>
There have been numerous severe deficiencies in the evaluation process of GM
mustard. The risks to health, environment and agriculture have not been
evaluated even through those inadequate tests which were conducted at the time
of Bt brinjal examination, though mustard is far more extensively grown and
consumed than brinjal.<br />
HT (herbicide tolerant) GM crops have been condemned by a number of medical
professionals and other scientists for increasing chemical herbicide use,
leading to serious health conditions — at all stages, but most worryingly at
the foetal stage. A scientific report from Argentina
found a fourfold increase in birth defects and a threefold increase in
childhood cancers in HT soya areas. Shockingly, the GEAC has conveniently
omitted to have any herbicide-related studies. A small committee was
constituted to “examine” the safety dossier — the tests that were done and the
deliberations of GEAC were shrouded in secrecy. After a scathing order from the
Central Information Commission, the GEAC made a sham of public consultations,
through an opaque and perfunctory eyewash process.<br />
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The U.S. is
a prime example of a country which has galloped into the GM mode of
agriculture. Studies have shown a strong correlation between growth of GM
crops, the herbicides they promote, and diseases such as acute kidney injury,
diabetes, autism, Alzheimer’s and cancers in the past 20 years in the U.S.
Seventeen of the 20 most developed countries — including Japan, Russia, Israel
and most of Europe — refuse to grow GM crops. An unacceptable marketing trick,
that of promotion of a “swadeshi” GM, is being used to break down resistance to
GM crops in India’s vast market, ignoring that safety concerns are the same —
swadeshi GM or not.<br />
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Losses and pernicious effects</h2>
The GEAC had itself rejected a similar HT GM mustard proposal by Bayer in
2002. The same reasons apply now. A herbicide-tolerant crop promotes constant
exposure to a single herbicide — which eventually results in weeds becoming
resistant. Over 20 species of weeds in the U.S.
are now resistant to Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicide. As desperate
farmers tried to control these “superweeds”, there was a tenfold increase in
use of glyphosate in 16 years.<br />
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<br />Local Food Bloomington - PC Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05792933100510272821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11918701.post-27968651374094495222016-03-08T11:56:00.000-05:002016-03-08T13:32:02.118-05:00 The Beauty of Bees And Self-Reliance: A Conversation with Author Susan BrackneyHello Local Food Readers,<br />
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At the very start of her funny and
fact-packed 2009 book, <a href="http://www.penguin.com/book/plan-bee-by-susan-brackney/9780399535987?Plan_Bee_Susan_Brackney" target="_blank"><i>PlanBee: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About theHardest-Working Creatures on the Planet</i></a>, Bloomington author
Susan Brackney asserts her interest in self reliance. It was this
desire for self-reliance that led to home ownership and fueled a
hankering for chickens, which in turn became a path to beekeeping.
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For ten years, from the mid-90s to
mid-2000s, Brackney moved every single year. As a student earning her
Bachelors in English at IU, the annual moves were not so unusual. But
after graduating, she still found herself moving from one awful
rental to another. Landlords aren’t typically amenable to allowing
renters to dig garden plots, so she had abundant—but
unsatisfying—container gardens; her spare time was spent reading
about homesteading. As Brackney says, she was “pining for land.”
Her first homestead was an 850 square foot house on a half-acre
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“My realtor explained that a property
like this was only a step above camping, but there were these huge
old walnut trees….” (You can hear affection for those trees in
her voice.) Family helped build a 144 square foot greenhouse, which
was cozy on snowy winter days. Brackney started growing much of her
own food, canning, and cultivating loofah gourds.
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“Because,” she says, “why not?”
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Brackney really wanted chickens, but a
civic battle was raging at the time: chickens were <i>personae </i><i>non</i><i>
gratae </i>inside the city limits. Honeybees, however, were
considered to be “invertebrate livestock.” When a friend gifted
her the beekeeping equipment he found at a yard sale, a beekeeper was
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Brackney has an of her great-grandfather and grandfather peering
into a hive, knee-deep in summer grass. She’s not sure that any
beekeeping skills were passed down to her, though. In fact, she
ruefully laughs about being beehive-less this winter, following major
bee challenges last autumn.
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“Have you ever experienced laying
workers?” she asks, laughing. “<i>That</i> was a hot mess of a
hive.” Laying workers are an unholy disaster, in which the female
worker bees decide the queen is no longer up to the job of laying
eggs, and start laying their own—unfertilized—eggs. This results
in a bunch of (mostly) useless drones, and spells the demise of the
hive. Brackney tried the <a href="http://www.bushfarms.com/beeslayingworkers.htm" target="_blank">“shake out and forget</a>” trick, dumping the laying workers away from the
hive, but to no avail. February 2016 finds Brackney bee-less, but
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“My beekeeping mentor was very old
school—he had many, many tricks up his sleeve for ‘working the
girls,’ as he put it, to maximize honey production. I’m more
hands-off.” Brackney says she’s not in it for the honey, and that
she’s more likely to put her ear up to one of her hives and give a
it a gentle knock, listening for the bees inside, than she is to open
it and start poking around.
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“Opening a hive is like cracking open
a chest for heart surgery. I really don’t want to, unless
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Bees boast a social structure that’s
both fluid and organized, with most bees having the chance to work at
different jobs during different life stages. The youngest bees care
for brood, graduate to housekeeping, serve a stint as an undertaker
hauling out dead bees, and then move on to foraging in the wider
world. Some bees become entrance guards. A honeybee sting means death
for the insect, and it’s their last resort when feeling threatened;
a honeybee will typically buzz an intruder several times before
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Brackney maintains that discretion is
an important skill in beekeeping: while immediate neighbors
absolutely should know there’s a beekeeper at work, ideally the
bees are managed so efficiently that nobody even knows it’s
happening. Checking bees during the week, when neighbors are at work,
is a great way to stay on the down low. If one diligently keeps the
hive from swarming, and gives away plenty of honey, chances are good
that bees will be welcome in the neighborhood.</div>
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The pollination of local gardens and
orchards is an added benefit of keeping bees. Large commercial
orchards—think the acres of almond trees in California, or the
orange groves in Florida—truck in mass quantities of beehives
seasonally, paying thousands of dollars for pollination services. In
fact, this is how many larger-scale beekeepers make their primary
income; honey and beeswax are secondary products.
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I once heard an older beekeeper, one of
the gentlest men I’ve ever met, insist that the way to restore the
honeybee is to train thousands more hobby beekeepers, and not have so
many giant commercial beekeepers. Who knows if that would do the
trick, but many scientists do think that large-scale commercial
beekeeping has helped contribute to honeybee decline, by encouraging
the spread of disease to already-stressed-by-travel colonies.</div>
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The more we can do for ourselves and
our communities (human and ecological), the better, and everyone
benefits when we invest <a href="http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/what_is_a_food_shed" target="_blank">in our local foodshed</a> Brackney points out that the expensive spinach
trucked in from California has lost some of its nutritional value by
the time it gets to our plates. Paying a bit more for locally grown
food that is in the prime of its nutrient-rich life might save us
more in the long run, from the fossil fuels used for transport, <a href="http://ccejefferson.org/local-foods/buying-local" target="_blank">tothe value of keeping our dollars in local circulation</a>, to the
personal well-being we support when we eat the freshest food
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As for the honeybees: you don’t have
to keep a hive to support these hard-working pollinators. You can
plant blossoms that bees love, in large swaths of your yard.
Honeybees practice flower constancy, which means that once a bee
finds a flower variety she likes, she’ll work it until there’s
nothing left, to the exclusion of other plants. Make it worth her
while to visit your yard. Susan created this awesome garden map to give you ideas, and it’s great for welcoming
pollinators of all<br />
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kinds, including native bees and even
hummingbirds. You can also provide a water dish – a shallow saucer
with small pebbles for bees to perch on will do. And naturally,
you’ll want to stay away from herbicides and insecticides that can
harm bees.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLM5pesfBSGe8XVBQIe39ajqhRJ9crE3zPCFnnYYxKoAwDRsiNfySuHxA9Jpg6dSeU3VpqjYMxxxPdqb_aIShH2ig_i0kmEB1RaqLXkmp3BIvY7grfj-yWfYn-BSnUqLmvPxaFUg/s1600/honey_bee_garden_copy-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>Beekeeping is a humbling art—the
“right” answers are sometimes elusive, and often you just do the
best you can, that moment. Brackney confesses she’s not religious,
but when she looks inside a beehive, with its order and systems, she
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powerful is at work,” she sighs. By supporting the bees in their
efforts, we all can participate in that “something powerful.”</div>
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<a href="http://planbeebook.com/" target="_blank">planbeebook.com</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.susanbrackney.com/" target="_blank">susanbrackney.com</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783540787273" target="_blank">TheBuzz About Bees: Biology of a Superorganism,</a> Jurgen Tautz
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<a href="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9267.html" target="_blank"><i>HoneybeeDemocracy</i></a>, Thomas D. Seeley (Princeton University Press,
2010)</div>
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<a href="http://www.chelseagreen.com/top-bar-beekeeping" target="_blank"><i>Top-BarBeekeeping: Organic Practices for Honeybee Health</i></a>, Les
Crowder andHeather Harrell
(Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012)<br />
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Becky Holtzman is a painter and Reiki practitioner in Bloomington,
Indiana. A keeper-of-bees from 2011-2015,
she hopes to have a beehive or two in the near future. You can find her art
at <a href="http://beckytomato.com/" target="_blank">beckytomato.com</a> and
her Reiki practice at <a href="http://orangeflowerhealing.com/" target="_blank">orangeflowerhealing.com</a>.<br />
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Local Food Bloomington - PC Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05792933100510272821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11918701.post-62684849004939963132016-02-18T09:10:00.001-05:002016-03-08T13:58:55.278-05:00Local Food Updates and Food NewsHello Local Food Readers,<br />
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A lot has happened since the last posting of food events. It is now easy to see the updating that I have been speaking of for many months. Many of <a href="http://www.greendove.net/localfood.htm" target="_blank">Local Food</a> pages have been updated (more to come), including <a href="http://www.greendove.net/foodnews.htm" target="_blank">Food News</a> that has of information about food both in the Bloomington area, but global connections of interest.<br />
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2016 is the Year of Pulses which are legumes, beans and peas. The intro page to Local Food has a list of some remaining heirloom seeds; some names are familiar and many are not. Following are links to a few of the Food News Articles. Disturbing article on 90% of the certified organic corn now sold in the US comes from Europe! A pleasing interview with Executive Chef Padraig Cullen of the Upland in Bloomington, Indiana as well as a luscious pear processing article by Glenda Breeden who has been processing food for her family table most of her life. There is lots going on in the EU as more than 50% of countries have now banned Monsanto and many others pulling Roundup and other products off their shelves. We continue to keep a focus on bees, fraking (as water must be protected) and much more. </div>
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<b><a href="http://www.greendove.net/foodnews.htm#Padraig" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "segoe print"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Chef Interview - Padraig Cullen</span></a></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "segoe print"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.greendove.net/foodnews.htm#gmoguide" target="_blank">Shoppers Guide to GMO's</a></span></b></div>
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Local Food Bloomington - PC Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05792933100510272821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11918701.post-45784496313551880182016-01-17T16:46:00.000-05:002016-01-17T16:46:56.376-05:00Dear Local Food Reader,<br />
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016.<br />
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I began the year mostly disconnected to technology which has me a few weeks off my to do calendar. As previously mentioned, Local Food and Food News are being updated at this moment and as much as hands can handle is being done to get it up online. Local Food is excited about this forthcoming issue. Yes, I admit to being excited with every update. And yes, again, I am hopeful that there will be more frequent postings.<br />
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Upcoming food events that you may find of interest.<br />
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The Indiana Cooperative
Develoment Center is fortunate to have received funds from the Howard
Bowers Fund and the Ralph K Morris Foundation for scholarships to Up
& Coming 2016. Deadline for applications is 1/20/16 with
notification by 1/31/16. Go to the Resources Page for more information.<br />
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*T<b>he Soil and Nutrition Conference, organized by the Bionutrient Food
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soil, crop and ecosystem health, xplore how soil health and crop quality
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community leaders, CSA members, local food advocates, urban and rural
farmers, food professionals, entrepreneurs, and members of the press to
participate in a full day of trainings, panels, policy discussions, and
good food. Just Food's Conference programming covers national farm and
food policy issues, approaches to urban agriculture, culinary and food
preservation techniques, and strategies to mobilize communities in order
to increase access to fresh, locally grown food.<br />
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<b> </b><b>*Water for Food Global Conference - </b>organized by the will take place
from <b>24th April to the 26th April 2016 at the in Lincoln, United
States.</b> The conference will cover areas like We are committed to
ensuring a water and food secure world without compromising the use of
water for other human and environmental needs. Our approach is to
extend the University of Nebraska’s expertise through strong
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in Indianapolis, USA.</b> The conference will cover areas like IDFA’s Milk
and Cultured Dairy Products Conference is a dynamic, information-rich
meeting focused exclusively on the information that milk and cultured
dairy product professionals need. Learn about the most recent
developments in the category and the science behind them. Be inspired by
new ideas as you network with industry peers and respected experts.
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Local Food Bloomington - PC Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05792933100510272821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11918701.post-55245868095713111972015-12-15T16:39:00.002-05:002015-12-15T16:44:42.361-05:00Food for the Holidays!<br />
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It is the time of year when roots rise to the top of my grocery list, though some roots, I admit, never leave. Oven roasting is quick and the results are delicious. I have been pleased each time I simply coat the skins of sweets, onions and garlic then bake. First the sweets and onions, adding the oiled garlic bulb and loose cloves during the last 15 minutes. <br />
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This busy season is full of food! Cooking, sharing, eating and appreciating! Yes, I love food and am inspired by it and sharing it with love. As Local Food Bloomington closes out 2015 an update to Food News and Local Food Bloomington is underway. We hope it is up by early January 2016.<br />
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And a shout out to Quilter's Comfort and the range of jellies, herbal, fruit, wine and the beer jelly made from locally crafted beer (exception is the Chocolate Raspberry Stout organic) and to Wheat Ale HipHop. More about why I mention this particular beer will appear in <a href="http://www.greendove.net/foodnews.htm" target="_blank">Food News</a>.<br />
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<br />Local Food Bloomington - PC Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05792933100510272821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11918701.post-75533745273890475492015-12-03T13:32:00.000-05:002015-12-03T13:36:59.246-05:00Trigos Bakery, A Family Tradition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A sweet discovery! A tiny bakery offering traditional Mexican pastries in Bloomington. For months I drove by the sign for bakery wondering what types of goodies it was creating. One day, I stopped in and discovered Iban Heredia and tasted my first pastry. a CONCHITAS Pan Dulce and learned of some challenges with ordinances he is working through. </div>
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May things be favorably resolved and more of the community have the opportunity to taste his sweets and savories. A friend said, it is these special little places that really are a key element in making a community great.</div>
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To see tasty bakery postings and read appreciative comments check out Trigos Bakery on Facebook </div>
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<br />Local Food Bloomington - PC Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05792933100510272821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11918701.post-71215992619901476272015-10-23T09:55:00.005-04:002015-10-23T09:55:58.716-04:00Food Chains Documentary <span style="font-size: 12.8px;"></span><b style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1431076615" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Dear Reader,</span></span></b><br />
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<b style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1431076615" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">On Monday, October 26 at 7:00pm</span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">, <i><b>IU Cinema will air </b></i></span><i style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Food Chains</b>.</i> This
documentary looks at the long hours, low pay, and grueling — often
abusive — conditions that the modern farm worker faces and how Americans
are unknowingly complicit in the exploitation of a vulnerable
population. It explores the power of consumers and voters to change this
situation as they become more knowledgeable about their food’s origins
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<b><span style="color: black;">Click Here to watch the trailer </span>- <a href="https://youtu.be/lqZLrXVAde4">https://youtu.be/lqZLrXVAde4</a></b><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><b> Enjoy the abundance of the season!</b></span><br />
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