Comments on: Who is responsible for local food? http://www.oakhillorganics.org/blog.html/?p=277 Joyfully growing vegetables & a family on Grand Island, Oregon Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:48:49 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Oregon’s Natural Foods Connection » Responsibility in eating locally http://www.oakhillorganics.org/blog.html/?p=277&cpage=1#comment-226 Oregon’s Natural Foods Connection » Responsibility in eating locally Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:05:08 +0000 http://www.oakhillorganics.org/blog.html/?p=277#comment-226 [...] Posted by Jared on 24 Jul 2008 at 11:05 pm | Tagged as: Uncategorized This may sound like it’s going to be some kind of speech about the necessity of eating local foods and how it’s bad to eat things that aren’t produced locally, but it’s not. I’m more than happy to eat my bananas from who knows where. But Katie wrote an interesting piece on the Oakhill Organics blog about how it is the responsibility of both the producers and the consumers to work together to make the “local thing” work. It was actually a very interesting post for me and made me much more proud of Chris’ little “mini farm” that she has going. [...] [...] Posted by Jared on 24 Jul 2008 at 11:05 pm | Tagged as: Uncategorized This may sound like it’s going to be some kind of speech about the necessity of eating local foods and how it’s bad to eat things that aren’t produced locally, but it’s not. I’m more than happy to eat my bananas from who knows where. But Katie wrote an interesting piece on the Oakhill Organics blog about how it is the responsibility of both the producers and the consumers to work together to make the “local thing” work. It was actually a very interesting post for me and made me much more proud of Chris’ little “mini farm” that she has going. [...]

]]> By: Christine Anderson http://www.oakhillorganics.org/blog.html/?p=277&cpage=1#comment-225 Christine Anderson Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:07:47 +0000 http://www.oakhillorganics.org/blog.html/?p=277#comment-225 I am working SO hard to become a producer. Though I have no knack for growing vegetebales (despite the fact that I am having teriffic luck this year in my garden), I do have a serious knack for animals. I milk my goats and make cheese and butcher my goats and rabbits and chickens. I get eggs, etc. A lot of it is a sustainability thing for us, but we always have extra, and we try to bestow it upon someone who will care. We do this all on a 1/10 of an acre city lot, and I wish, desperetly that we could afford something else so that I could produce truly wonderful local food. By the way, you can make your own vinegar, VERY easily out of local wine. I may have some mother culture soon to pass on, so if you are interested, let me know, I am in the market share group. Christine I am working SO hard to become a producer. Though I have no knack for growing vegetebales (despite the fact that I am having teriffic luck this year in my garden), I do have a serious knack for animals. I milk my goats and make cheese and butcher my goats and rabbits and chickens. I get eggs, etc. A lot of it is a sustainability thing for us, but we always have extra, and we try to bestow it upon someone who will care. We do this all on a 1/10 of an acre city lot, and I wish, desperetly that we could afford something else so that I could produce truly wonderful local food.

By the way, you can make your own vinegar, VERY easily out of local wine. I may have some mother culture soon to pass on, so if you are interested, let me know, I am in the market share group.

Christine

]]> By: Ellen http://www.oakhillorganics.org/blog.html/?p=277&cpage=1#comment-224 Ellen Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:04:59 +0000 http://www.oakhillorganics.org/blog.html/?p=277#comment-224 I do have a home garden (four 4' x 8' garden boxes constructed out of reclaimed cedar fence boards) I call it my "hobby garden" because of the CSA. I could never plant the variety of vegetables I receive in the CSA, but there is a certain sense of accomplishment when I go out to harvest a few leaves of the Italian Lettuce blend (never cut the heads!) to complement the single head of lettuce I might receive from the CSA. When we stopped receving green garlic in our weekly share I still had green garlic of my own to harvest for my salads. I've continued to plant radishes as well. I'm sad that the garlic did not do well, but I picked up some at the Hillsboro Saturday market this weekend (also locally grown). Thank you for teaching me to eat local, and in season! I do have a home garden (four 4′ x 8′ garden boxes constructed out of reclaimed cedar fence boards) I call it my “hobby garden” because of the CSA. I could never plant the variety of vegetables I receive in the CSA, but there is a certain sense of accomplishment when I go out to harvest a few leaves of the Italian Lettuce blend (never cut the heads!) to complement the single head of lettuce I might receive from the CSA. When we stopped receving green garlic in our weekly share I still had green garlic of my own to harvest for my salads. I’ve continued to plant radishes as well. I’m sad that the garlic did not do well, but I picked up some at the Hillsboro Saturday market this weekend (also locally grown). Thank you for teaching me to eat local, and in season!

]]> By: Kris Bledsoe http://www.oakhillorganics.org/blog.html/?p=277&cpage=1#comment-223 Kris Bledsoe Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:07:05 +0000 http://www.oakhillorganics.org/blog.html/?p=277#comment-223 A thoughtful and well written essay. I would never want to go back to eating food that had been early harvested to be trucked thousands of miles and arriving to the store weeks after harvest. In my mind it is no longer real food. Yes, we are spoiled and having such bounty does raise our expectations. I also have a concern re lower income folks who may not have a place to grow their own food. It is cheaper to eat poorly which results in health problems. We need to develop more places for true community gardening which would include gardening for others who may not have the time, energy or transportation available to raise their own food. This is a turning point in our society, going back to the rural community culture. We can do that here because we have room, air, water and land now. The important thing for us is to not take these valuable resources for granted and for us to protect them and share them with others. A thoughtful and well written essay. I would never want to go back to eating food that had been early harvested to be trucked thousands of miles and arriving to the store weeks after harvest. In my mind it is no longer real food. Yes, we are spoiled and having such bounty does raise our expectations. I also have a concern re lower income folks who may not have a place to grow their own food. It is cheaper to eat poorly which results in health problems. We need to develop more places for true community gardening which would include gardening for others who may not have the time, energy or transportation available to raise their own food. This is a turning point in our society, going back to the rural community culture. We can do that here because we have room, air, water and land now. The important thing for us is to not take these valuable resources for granted and for us to protect them and share them with others.

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