The South Central Agriculture Team for Cornell Cooperative Extension has created a 2012 Guide to Foods Produced in the Southern Tier & Finger Lakes. I'm suprised it can fit into 32 pages, given the exploding number of local food options....
Sungiva and I sometimes go out Saturday morning to look for horses and cows. I drive around Dryden, and she calls out when she sees the animals. Today, though, we spent a lot of time around Freeville, visiting some places...
The Dryden Community Garden just continues to amaze me: Get a free lunch at the Dryden Cafe! Dryden Community Garden sponsors a free lunch made of all local food, a meal you can make at home for $5.00 or less...
If you'd like your local food in tasty "pick it up and buy it" form, stop by the Dryden bank on Saturday morning: The crisp, cool days of autumn have arrived, bringing with them the yearning for treats fresh from...
It was a pretty quiet week for Dryden in the Journal. Harvestation, though, may be one of the best applications of technology to come out of Dryden in a while: Harvestation.com, a local online bulk buying marketplace which went live...
This morning's Ithaca Journal has a great article on canning and preserving food, including photos of cider-making at a home in the Town of Dryden. Katie Quinn-Jacobs has been working hard on this for years, and it's great to see...
Today's Journal notices what the Cortland Standard noticed a few months ago: increasing grain prices are making it harder for local bakers and others who use lots of flour. There's also a more general piece on wheat prices and another...
Last week, I saw some sauerkraut in the Ludgate Farms vegetable case. It was marked local, and since we're eating locally, I figured it was worth a try despite the $5.69 pricetag for fifteen ounces. Over in Ghent, NY, Hawthorne...
I've posted a report on the book review and reflections on our own local eating project that Angelika and I presented in Corning today over at An Hour a Day in the Garden....
I probably should have posted on this earlier, but it's not precisely a Dryden story. Angelika and I will be giving a review of Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle tomorrow at noon in Corning, at the Corning--Southeast Steuben County Library....
I mentioned the Dryden Courier as something to give yesterday, though it's not exactly a classic present you can put in a box under the Christmas tree. Today's idea could actually go under the tree, though it's also something I...
Former Varna resident Beth Skwarecki has kept up her Sustainable Food Blog, and I'm happy to see that she's now finishing up a Local Food Pocket Cookbook. I'm still kind of going out to see what I can find, and...
This morning's Ithaca Journal reports in Briefly in Tompkins that part of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display from Wednesday through the week in the TC3 Forum. World AIDS Day is December 1st, and there will be events...
I haven't seen a lot of grape pie around Dryden, though maybe someone's making it. We were coming back from a wedding in Palmyra, north and west of here, and I took a detour on to Route 414, remembering that...
It was a tasty year for sweet corn, and we decided to extend the season a bit longer by freezing some corn. Angelika bought 26 ears yesterday, and we got a little under five pounds out of that. I also...
It's a little ways distant from my eating local project, but buying American (New York Times, registration required) seems to be returning to public consciousness. The article is from the fashion section, so it's a bit wackier than usual: "Made...
Weird title, isn't it. It's actually the name of a weirder store I've thought about for a while, and written about elsewhere. I'm not sure it's my idea - someone else may have suggested it - but I wish there...
I mentioned some skepticism about local food from the market-oriented side of the world. Lately I've been encountering more skepticism about local food and broader relocalization from a different set of critics. On the Sustainable Tompkins mailing list, a New...
There's an article in this morning's Journal that illustrates some of the problems I've run into when thinking about what "local" food means. The Ithaca Beer Company, whose products I've always enjoyed, is going to build a silo to store...
I was happy to see a new blog spring up in Dryden, one that reinforces probably the most important part of my eating locally project: the Sustainable Food Blog. Varna resident Beth Skwarecki has written a lot about food at...
I wrote earlier about The Orchid Place's building a garden for squash. They've had a sign up for a few weeks, advertising veggies for sale, and over the past few weeks I've gotten to try a few tomatoes, cucumbers, and...
This month, it seems like I can get most of my basic food needs around Tompkins County. It's a great time to Buy Local: Taste the Difference!, as a current campaign would have it. This weekend they had a Farm...
Living in Dryden has thankfully been a place where cranky comments - apart from my own - are rare. I didn't expect that my local eating project would generate complaints, especially relative to some of the political positions I've taken,...
This morning's Ithaca Journal reads a bit like an echo of this blog last night. I worried about 13's bridge over Fall Creek, and there are reports on how the state has diverted money from the highway fund for years...
We decided back in June to start eating locally in August. We let our supplies dwindle coming up to the end of the month, though my being in the land of Burgerville didn't help with that. We gave away our...
As part of the transition to eating locally, I went through our cupboards and pulled out unopened food to give away. I'd like to give it to a food pantry, preferably a local one like the Dryden Kitchen Cupboard or...
Strawberry season is ending, but there are other opportunities to enjoy. My parents' house in Corning had a row of arborvitae with a steep slope behind. It wasn't every year, but many years there were great black raspberries back there....
We're trying to finish off foods that weren't produced locally this month, and last night I created something strange. I had leftover pork from my mother's 4th of July dinner, with some juice, and thought I'd use it to finish...
Part of eating locally is trying the strange things that appear in the garden. Angelika planted garlic around her apple trees last year, and at least one variety is producing 'scapes', a sort of curled flowering stem. Garlic scapes growing....
Last week, I wrote about how our food supplies don't necessarily connect to our neighborhoods. I also wrote a bit earlier on the possibilities we'd open by looking locally, and I'd like to push further that direction. Tomatoes on their...