Eating Local in the Summer Is Easy
Despite the sweltering, miserable, suffocating heat of Mississippi in the summer, I still adore this time of year because I am able to grow a lot of my own food, watch hummingbirds (from a distance though because they're a little too much like big bees for my taste), and have daylight until after 8pm. I also enjoy buying vegetables from an old man on the side of the road and going to the farmers' market. Side note: This year, my husband and I are even running a booth at the market. We bake and sell fresh bread. It's...
Boardtown Organics: My Solution for Local, Free-range Chicken and Eggs
As you all know, I have sworn off non-local meat, and, although Sanderson Farms is a Mississippi company, that’s not quite what I was going for with “local.” So far this year, my meals have been mostly meatless until recently when I got a deer, just about as local as you can get. But I was looking around on Local Harvest and discovered a family farm just outside my door. Boardtown Organics (Boardtown, by the way, is what Starkville was before it was Starkville) is a small operation just outside the city limits, but I don’t...
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The Western Intellectual Tradition, from Leonardo to Hegel by Jacob Bronowski
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
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