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Loving food from birth to earth! gederthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08995045752975007683noreply@blogger.comBlogger169125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389677501965339406.post-12891301465442591542015-07-02T08:02:00.001-07:002015-07-02T08:02:59.485-07:00We Bid You All Farewell<div style="text-align: center;">
Well folks, after much deliberation and consideration we are closing the lid on the vermiculture business. We really appreciate all of the support from our friends and customers over the past 7 or 8 years that we have been doing this but alas it is time to simplify our lives and focus on other things. We will always be worm composters but we will just be doing it for ourselves now. We wish you all the best of luck in your worm endeavors.<br />Thanks again and remember, <br />Stay Dirty!</div>
Germ_uh_nationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11438628931670090054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389677501965339406.post-53226240020242332672015-01-20T17:40:00.000-08:002015-03-20T18:08:53.881-07:00The unfortunate Case of David NOT Slaying Goliath<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We often read stories about people who spend their lives pursuing a grand goal that is for the betterment of society as a whole only to die sometime before their work has reached fruition. In the case of Harvey Washington Wiley, that was not the case.<br />
Wiley was an American Chemist with a steadfast passion to see our nation free from adulterated impure and unhealthy foods. Noted as the driving force behind the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, Wiley toiled for years trying to rid our food system of items and ingredients that were in his opinion (and the opinion of many Americans) distasteful to say the least. Some of his work helped to remove some potentially toxic chemicals such as borax from use in the food production industry. Wiley spent a large chunk of his life, some of it working for the U.S. government, trying to ensure that American citizens were not only getting the actual foods they believed they were buying (such as bread made from flour and not flour and sawdust) but food that was safe to eat and not laced with a conglomeration of ingredients that only a chemist, as Wiley was, would recognize.<br />
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To anyone who has a love for "true food", as I do, Wiley was an unsung hero. Even after being essentially forced into resigning from his position as the first commissioner of the FDA Wiley continued to spread the gospel of real and safe food through his position with the then highly regarded Good Housekeeping Institute.<br />
In an unfortunate turn of events, the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was considerably watered down and the types of chemicals & foodstuffs that Wiley worked so tirelessly to prevent or remove from our food system were added and used with wild abandon almost from the time of his leaving the FDA. <br />
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Fast forward a mere 85 years and we have a food system that not only regularly utilizes many of those same chemicals but has become absolutely dependent on them. We now have a society where food chemistry is a multi billion dollar industry, food related ailments such as type two diabetes and obesity are so rampant that for the first time in history, children born after the year 2000 are expected to live shorter lives than their parents. <br />
The story of Harvey Washington Wiley is one where David was clearly unable to slay Goliath, and one where Goliath went on to rule what is supposedly the greatest nation in the world.</div>
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389677501965339406.post-45886315261939408362014-09-17T14:36:00.000-07:002014-09-17T14:36:03.113-07:00Full Circle<div style="text-align: center;">
Could you imagine if businesses were not only able to grow their own food (or most of it) but also to compost their own waste? </div>
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That is the goal we are striving towards here. We began with a small garden growing organically raised fruits & vegetables, from there we added worm composting and began to sell the worms and their castings to other folks so they could recycle their waste into great garden food. Well now we are working towards the next step. Our goal is to grow food that we will process into a delicious fizzy beverage and the waste product from that will then be fed to our worms which will in turn transform that waste into more compost for growing more food for production, and the cycle continues, a completely closed loop system of growth, production and waste recycling.</div>
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Minimal impact other than the positive impact on our land and the customers we serve.</div>
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We are just in the beginning stages of this project but we will keep you all posted on how things progress along the way.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is that time of year again and the worms are ready! If you would like to order some, just email us or you can contact <a href="http://www.cityfolksfarmshop.com/" target="_blank">City Folks Farm Shop</a>.</span></div>
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Fermenting With Ginger Bugs And More <br />
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This workshop is all about ginger and the many, many ways it can be used as the starter for many other fermented fruit beverages. You will learn how to make and care for a ginger bug and how to make a ginger beer. We will demonstrate ways to flavor the ginger beer or use your bug to ferment other fruit beverages. We will also combine methods to create a Kombu-ginger brew. We will also take a quick look at Kim Chi with Kim Chi 101; a beginners approach to fermented goodness. There will be ginger beer samples as well as Kim Chi samples and recipes/guidelines for making your own.<br />
Instructor: Jeremy Gedert<br /> Jeremy Gedert is a native of Columbus, Ohio. A culinary graduate of Columbus State Community College, he has worked professionally in the restaurant & catering business for over 15 years. A self taught food grower and composter, Jeremy & his wife Kellie began <a href="http://www.one20farm.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" title="One 20 Farm"><span style="color: #187220;">One 20 Farm</span></a>, an urban worm composting farm located in the North Linden area over 6 years ago. Jeremy & Kellie have been growing red wiggler worms and food as well as raising chickens on their humble plot of land while trying to teach others in their community the importance of food waste recycling. One of Jeremy's other endeavors is fermenting, from kefir to kombucha to hot sauce, Kim Chi and of course his great love-ginger beer! Jeremy & Kellie have a dream of creating a sustainable nearly closed loop system where they can grow real, healthy food, turn that food into value added consumer products, feed any food waste to their worms which in turn help feed more food producing plants.<br />
Class Fee: $25<br />
Register below, at <a href="http://www.cityfolksfarmshop.com/calendar/event-registration/?ee=9" target="_blank">City Folk’s Farm Shop</a>, by calling 946-5553, or by emailing shawn@cityfolksfarmshop.com. Your registration is not complete and we cannot hold your place in the class without payment. If you cannot use paypal, you may pay over the phone by calling 614-946-5553 or by cash, check, or credit cart in the shop.</div>
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Germ_uh_nationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11438628931670090054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389677501965339406.post-15802354249992434112014-02-10T17:17:00.001-08:002014-02-10T17:17:33.919-08:00A Brain Wider Than The Sky (Review)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hemicrania, migrana, migraine: "Half headed"; Sag-gig: "Sick Head"</div>
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Author Andrew Levy, a professor of English at Butler University and as myself, a migraine sufferer has captured my attention as well as the essence of migraine.</div>
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Levy traces the migraine through history from before the time of Christ to modern day along with all the arcane and contemporary means of coping with them. Techniques like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanning" target="_blank">trepanning</a> that make you cringe, unless you've suffered through a migraine more than two days long in which case you really start to think it may be a good idea. Levy not only traces the migraine through its various mentions in literature & medical publications but also traces it through the influential people it has affected. Nietzsche, Louis Carol, Ulysses S. Grant, even Elvis Presley, all migraineurs and the list goes on. somewhat more interesting is the affect that migraines had on these famous victims, for instance, the drugs that lead to Elvis' death were likely a means of coping with this debilitating affliction, and Carol's famous Alice in Wonderland is suspected to be not just a description of but an actual migraine incarnated in the various characters and the aspects they each represent, even the Cheshire cat representative of the aura that some migrianeurs experience.</div>
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Throughout the book Levy notes the treatments sought by numerous sufferers throughout the ages and how so many treatment success stories were truly by accident, usually treatments for something completely different that patients found just happened to help with their headaches.</div>
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Something both amazing and unfortunate at the same time is that the things that trigger migraines and the things that help them are as diverse and varied as the people suffering from them, caffeine can be a savior to some and a torture to others, chocolate as well. It seems through all Levy's research, the only constant is a sensitivity to light and pain, a pain as pure as the sunshine that we migraineurs often fear with every ounce of our being. </div>
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One aspect of migraine that Levy captures all to well is its relationships, or more aptly, its affect on our relationships. The introduction of the book was difficult to read for me personally as he describes the way he is forced to interact with his toddler son because of this ailment. Anyone who has been tormented with this disability (the best way I can describe it) for very long knows that it can easily steal as much quality time with your children as can your job. Levy also illustrates the tension and teamwork that migraine builds between he and his wife. Tension from the fact that one team mate is forced to hide in the shadows and silence whilst the rest of the house tries to go about everyday duties with little or no help. Teamwork as the two work together reading & researching, trying to find the triggers and treatments specific to his affliction.</div>
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The truly interesting thing that Levy brings forth, especially documenting the long list of highly accomplished people, is that migraine is inspiring, it seems to have been a driving force behind so many creative writers, and artists throughout the ages, and as Levy postulates, how many more has it crippled to the point of inaction? </div>
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While the author mentions a long list of triggers and treatments for migraine he also makes a point to mention how experimental the whole process can be, living "monkishly" avoiding specific triggers while working through any number of medications that may or may not help or may help but have such adverse side effects that they are not worth it. This is where I really felt his pain, in his utter frustration of trying to find help and being thwarted at every turn. I would say for myself that this is the truly the worst part of migraine, the never knowing why or how to fix it.</div>
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Some research that Levy has come across points toward migraine being an evolutionary "left over", a physiological mechanism to help us avoid the dangers our ancestors once faced-<em>avoiding daylight and loud noises keeps you in the cave safe from predators.</em> More recent discoveries may be pointing towards migraine being an early warning system for individuals prone to stroke, thus forcing them into a lifestyle that is healthier (if you avoid the big triggers) and may eventually help you prevent strokes.</div>
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The ultimate answer Levy has found is that no one knows for sure why we get them or how to get rid of them. However, as I have also found for myself, migraine comes to define us, we become migraineurs (French makes it sound fancy), those who experience migraines frequently learn to accept them and develop a sort of symbiotic relationship with them, they give us pain but also inspiration, especially inspiration to appreciate the time we have without pain.</div>
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I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has experienced migraine for any length of time if for no other reason than to understand that you are by no means alone in your pain but also because the author does such a great job of balancing between the statistics from research and the illustration from his own experience.</div>
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Ever since I began cooking, well cooking professionally, I have had an interest in the when and how we began cooking and eating as we do now. Consider the Fork answers some of those questions and does so in a very engaging manner, the author doesn't string out some exhaustive and boring time lines with specific dates and so-called "major events" as the typical history class at school does. Instead, the author simply elaborates on simple items we take for granted such as the fork, and how we as a society evolved from eating with personal knives or daggers that were carried with us everywhere to spoons and eventually to the multi pronged fork as a sort of height of sophistication (although I still prefer fingers myself).</div>
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The book covers not just the implements we use for eating but also the apparatus we use for cooking such as the large wood fired spits built into the lower areas in the a wall of castles where men would prepare food wearing little but a loin cloth due to the extreme heat, a stark contrast to the chef coat and pants and necessary rubber gloves of today. Spits would be turned by boys because dogs became smart enough to hide when the turning equipment was brought out. Eventually this form of roasting meats would give way to the wood burning oven then a gas range and even electric ranges (which you couldn't pay me to install in my home). These innovations were a driving force that lead to gas lines and electric infrastructure in every home as we now have.</div>
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Consider the Fork doesn't offer any new methods that we should be trying or anything of that nature, the book simply explains how we got to where we are today in terms of cooking food which makes someone like myself both wish for the old days and a more involved and planned out method of cooking but also grateful that if I wish to roast a beast I do not need to find my son and force him to turn a spit in a hot kitchen while I tend to more involved duties.</div>
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Being the Bad Religion fan that I am, I had to at least check this book out as it was written by Bad Religion front man Greg Graffin, one of the first musicians to show me that Brains and Punk Rock music CAN go together.</div>
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Graffin is not only a musician but also has a PhD in zoology from Cornell University and lectures on life sciences and paleontology at UCLA. Graffin has also been a nearly lifelong student of biological evolution, studying books on his own as a kid as well as formal education as an adult.</div>
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Anarchy Evolution spends it's pages jumping back and forth between documenting the evolution of the punk band Bad Religion and Graffin's own take on evolution vs. religion, occasionally being able to draw (lose) parallels and metaphors between the two. </div>
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I enjoyed the book over all and even through the science portions was relatively easy to read, a sort of laymen's terms explanation of the evolution vs. religion debate. I found his references to religious people, Christianity in particular, to be rather vague generalities. However, his observations are likely well founded especially since a great number of people claim to be Christians yet very few of them actually read the bible or adhere to its recommended practices (my words, not his). I was quite surprised and rather pleased to read his explanation of a Naturalist that it is a philosophy or worldview and not simply someone who studies plants & animals, although that can have a very distinct impact on a Naturalist's worldview, and why someone who does not follow a religion can actually be a moral individual with a positive outlook on life. Graffin also made a point about atheists that although I had observed it, especially in what I call "evangelical atheists", I never really could put my finger on it-atheists define themselves by something they are not, rather than something they are. A rather dismal and negative approach to life if you ask me.</div>
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Germ_uh_nationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11438628931670090054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389677501965339406.post-40814071356990299012014-01-18T09:34:00.002-08:002014-01-18T09:34:34.535-08:00Fruit Hunters (Review)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I just watched this documentary last night, I couldn't pass up what is basically "Fruit Porn" as I am a hardcore fruit junkie.</div>
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Having experimented in growing a number of exotic fruit trees & plants in our home from seeds I gathered from the grocery, I was intrigued to see where some of the people featured in this film have taken their passion for the sweet stuff.</div>
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Perhaps the most surprising character in the film was <a href="http://www.billpullman.org/" target="_blank">Bill Pullman</a>! Yes, that's right, the president from the movie Independence Day and the guy from Serpent and the Rainbow is a fruitiphile. In fact he was leading a charge near his home in Hollywood to try and dedicate a green-space as the Hollywoodland Orchard for locals to go and tend to trees and eat of their bounty.</div>
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One of the best things about this movie was to see that people are working towards being guardians of biodiversity, trying to cultivate & preserve rare or exotic varieties of fruit around the world. One couple from Florida has even spent twenty years trying to graft a wild variety of mango onto domestic stocks (thus far to no avail) in hopes to keep from losing it-that's dedication!</div>
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This is especially a nice film to watch during our all to cold and dreary winter here as it (at least for me) lifts my spirits a bit looking at the beautiful colours of fruit and the warm climates visited in search of fruits and trees.</div>
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The biggest drawback to the film was the somewhat cheesy narration that echoed of bad educational school films from the 70's & 80's. However, the great cinematography, the humorous characters (particularly from <a href="http://papayatreenursery.com/" target="_blank">Papaya Tree Nursery</a>) and the fruit itself easily made up for that.</div>
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If you're into fruit or just want something to watch that's interesting you can find it on Netflix.</div>
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As you may or may not already know, there is a lot of discussion and controversy about our food system especially here in the United States, or as I have come to affectionately call it "Merica".</div>
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Among the issues are genetically modified organisms (GMO's), the ever decreasing varieties of vegetables currently being grown, and of course the debate over nutrition.</div>
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It is this last point that I have recently been thinking about. Now the common debate is more about high calorie low nutritive value "foods" such as chips, soda, fast food, processed food , etc. I however, began thinking about nutrition in real, actual foods such as fruits & vegetables.</div>
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Here was my thought. We seem to be facing an increasing public health problem, not simply due to eating too much of the wrong things like sugar (in various forms), fats and salt but also because we are incredibly deficient in many nutrients. This began when my wife quoted an author saying that "we are not deficient in medications, we are deficient in nutrients". This got my gears turning about how it is that we as a nation choose to grow the vast majority of our food. Farmers typically rotate crops in their fields each season (most notably soybeans and corn but also real vegetables) because different vegetables need pull different nutrients from the soil and so this keeps from depleting too much, supposedly. If the majority of vegetables grown commercially are grown "conventionally" with chemical fertilizers, it seems that the only nutrients being regularly replenished are Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium, leaving a chunk of micro nutrients missing over time. This deficiency rolls downhill into our diets terminating in compromised health and well being. </div>
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A remedy for this unsustainable method of food growing is to recycle the remnants of the previous seasons plants as well as food scraps into compost that can be used to feed future vegetables. Including some small stone particles in the compost can be a good way to add back the micro nutrients as well. A good example of this method is vermicomposting. Feeding plant waste and food scraps (including egg shells) to worms, they are broken down rather quickly and turned into rich dark organic matter, to facilitate this process, the worms need fine particulate sand and gravel dust to fill their gizzards which help them digest their food. This particulate is constantly moving through the worms (literally) and in the process is digested itself, broken down into its mineral components which become readily available to plants. Now I haven't done any scientific experiments or long term studies (although history may offer some insight) but could the results of practicing this far more sustainable growing technique be any more dangerous than splicing together genes from completely unrelated organisms?</div>
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Germ_uh_nationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11438628931670090054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389677501965339406.post-34375922288275660062014-01-10T09:38:00.001-08:002014-01-10T09:38:25.261-08:00Growing A Famer (book review)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As the weather lately promotes a lot of indoor time and thus plenty of reading, I decided that I would start reviewing books that I have read. The most recent piece that I finished is Growing a Farmer by Kurt Timmermeister. This is one that I just happened across at the local library and being a chef was intrigued by the fork motif on the cover. Once I got home and opened it up it was clear I'd be able to finish this one.</div>
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The book reads easily, no long winded exhortations on subjects that are difficult to follow or stories that seem to go on pointlessly as with some other "farmer" books I've read in the past. The author simply lays out how he got started in farming and how his little plot of land evolved over the years and how he himself evolved as a farmer.</div>
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Timmermeister began as a young restaurateur of sorts with a small cafe' in Seattle selling in house baked goods and of course coffee (what else would you expect from the Pacific Northwest?) eventually upgrading his business as he got older and more experienced until owning a full blown seven day a week restaurant. During this time he also began looking for a home to purchase and one with some land to it as he wanted to pursue growing food. What he found was a less than perfect parcel on Vashon Island just off the coast of Seattle, Washington. This is where the author begins to bide his time between the restaurant business and starting a farm business. Finally he comes to the conclusion to sell the restaurant & stay in farming, utilizing the restaurant money to support himself over the next few years as he gets more adept at producing food.</div>
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It was interesting to read of the regular setbacks and problems with wildlife he faced as he did not romanticize things but laid out his distress and occasional thoughts of giving up, I enjoyed the realistic perspective of the whole endeavor.</div>
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As the author was raising animals for meat as well as eggs and milk, it was good to read about the difficulty he had with putting animals down but approached it with great reverence for the beasts and the life they were giving up. As he went on to describe the entire process of slaughtering butchering chickens and pigs with great detail, it was not disturbing or gross but very respectful, focusing on the use of the entire animal rather than just the very few "good cuts". I was somewhat bothered by his philosophy about feeding pigs. He states in the book that pigs, much like humans, inherently know not to eat their own and that if given a pile of pig insides left from butchering, along with leftover chicken parts, the pigs will bypass the porcine bits altogether. However, he did mention that if the parts are cooked that they then just become "meat" and the pigs do what they do best-eat. He did not practice this heavily, it seemed, but I found it nonetheless unsettling. I would never think to feed any part of an animal, cooked or raw, to it's own species regardless of their own willingness to partake it just doesn't make logical or ethical sense especially if the animal itself is to be consumed by people.</div>
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Aside from this one point of contention, the rest of the book was fun to read, I particularly enjoyed the farms weekly Sunday dinners that had to consist almost entirely of items from the farm. This was not an incredibly difficult practice as the farm was home to a wide array of foods. Timmermeister raises chickens for eggs & meat, pigs for meat as well as lard, cows for milk which is made into butter and cheese, fruit trees, berry brambles and of course a large vegetable garden. Virtually everything you would need for a large dinner party was within reach on this small island farm. These dinners along with the sales of cheese are what keep the farm afloat and while not necessarily "profitable" it keeps the bills paid and keeps the farm and farmer doing what they love.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For part three of our local food slingers
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</span>For those of you that may not already know about them Swainway is tucked
away in Clintonville on a modest little plot of land tended to by owner Joseph
Swain along with his cohorts Jen Kindrick and Rachel Tayse-Balliel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Swainway produces a variety of certified
organic vegetables specializing in micro greens, shiitake and oyster mushrooms
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Worthington farmers markets and also produce goodies for their winter CSA.</span></div>
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was born and raised in northern Indiana then relocated briefly to San Francisco,
California before settling in Columbus where he could enjoy some of the perks
of big city living with less chaos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joseph
worked building roads and other blue collar labor prior to building his urban
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Over the years I have read or at least
started to read so many books about people that have left their career to try
their hand at farming, however, most of them came from either careers where
they made a considerable amount of money to support themselves and invest in
their new farm or they came from a background in farming to begin with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joseph on the other hand had neither. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His grandfather at one time had a 65 acre farm
that was auctioned off in the mid 80’s as with so many other small family farms
and his parents gardened although Joseph said he never really paid much
attention to it however, he said that “things must have registered and sank
deeper than he ever realized”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He began his
endeavor with just a 15 X 15 foot area in the back yard of his Clintonville
home and what little money he had building the business slowly and allowing it
to snowball into what he has now, approximately 1,000 square feet of growing
space outside including a recently added mushroom house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While he has never taken a loan or utilized
any grant or government money to grow his business he does see himself possibly
taking advantage of grants to expand things in the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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grown, taking over more space indoors and out, “space” has always been a
determining factor to the Swainway operation “we are always limited with what
we can do and to what capacity” says Joseph, “Not having enough space sometimes
makes things more complicated than they should be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The positive though is that when you are forced
into small parameters it inspires you to use your imagination and think outside
the box”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only has Swainway been
thinking outside the box, they have been thinking outside the garden norm as
well, being the first operation in central Ohio to grow and sell organic baby
ginger at farmers markets, something I personally was very excited about
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asked what has been the most surprising thing(s) he has experienced in his work
as an urban farmer, Joseph replied, “how much you could actually love your job”
and that he is inspired by how supportive and encouraging his friends and
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s no wonder that friends &
community members are so supportive of Swainway Urban Farm when considering
their involvement with the local community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In addition to growing what Joseph calls “some of the best damn food on
the planet”, Jen, Rachel & Joseph also host farm tours and work with
community gardens to share their knowledge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The trio are also involved with the City Folks Ground Swell project
based out of the <a href="http://www.cityfolksfarmshop.com/" target="_blank">City Folks Farm Shop</a> on north High street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The project will include mentoring others
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ensure that local food continues to flow into the heart of their community with
a passion for the progression of the small family farmer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is likely due to this local involvement
that Swainway has not fallen victim to any resistance from their neighbors in
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many of us local food advocates have our own ideas about what the general
public should understand about food and Joseph is no exception stating that “good
food has value and it is so important that we do not under value good
health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not all food should be treated
equally, there is a big difference between filling our bellies and nourishing
our bodies.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When asked to elaborate
Swain went on to say that he was against the campaign that has been going on
for decades to convince people that food should be dirt cheap and that “there
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against pursuing a larger scale farming endeavor, opting to continue slowly
growing his current operation and focusing on growing food within the city
stating that “food grown locally [within the city limits] can be very
sustainable and of the utmost freshness and nutrition”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joseph feels that he, Jen and Rachel still have
a lot of work to be done right here in town while building on the relationships
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to grow slowly and produce more food next year than they did last year although
he alluded to a “major leap” they will be making soon (he likes to be all
mysterious on occasion).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the near
future they hope to have multi-site production zones going and producing even
more food than ever before and employing more people and “maybe in ten years I
might have that farm my grandfather and family lost due to greed and the
unsustainable industrialization of our food system”.</span></div>
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final thought from Joseph is the importance of the law of attraction, that is
that like minds are attracted to each other and that “anything we believe, we
can achieve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think it, believe it, speak
it, do it! Anything is possible folks and there is no reason not to live happy”.</span></div>
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educate our communities about the importance of good <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>REAL</u></b> food and there becomes an ever increasing demand for it
we can indeed make great changes towards a more sustainable future and one we
can indeed live happily in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Continuing our short series on local food slingers, we have to include Chef John Skaggs along with his wife Kimberly, the dynamic duo behind </span><a href="http://www.theheirloomcafe.com/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Heirloom Café</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> at the Wexner Center for the Arts on OSU campus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">John was born in Norwalk California and was brought to Columbus by his wife Kimberly who is a native and because we're cooler than California ( I added that last part myself, but seriously it does get colder here). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Before opening Heirloom a couple of years ago Chef John had been working as a cook and chef since 1986 and doing so in Columbus since 1995. Also John worked briefly as an intern at Northridge Organic Farm in Johnstown in 2007 which helped further nurture his love of true natural food as well as his simple philosophy that we should know where our food comes from and know who grows that food. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">However, Heirloom does not rely solely on local and organic items. While John & Kimberly prefer dealing directly with food producers like Northridge (until their retirement from farming this year), they also have a mission of teaching their other purveyors what they expect and communicate the demands of Heirlooms consumers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As anyone who has worked in the food service business can guess, The Skaggs' biggest challenge is finding that right balance of work and life. While outside of normal work, John is a part of Cooking Caravan. The </span><a href="http://cookingcaravan.com/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Cooking Caravan</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> is a group of chefs, artists, actors and musicians devoted to enriching health and feeding artistic hunger. Working with kids they try and teach as well as nurture interest in food music and most of all FUN! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">While at work they also try and engage their local student community working with much older "kids" such as the OSU student farm and student groups growing food for Heirloom Café.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Last year a student group teamed with Heirloom to install a small garden on the premises of the Wexner Center producing food for use in the café, however, are no longer pursuing the endeavor due to some disagreements with commercial (non organic) sponsors of the garden space When I asked John about the decision to discontinue the project he said
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cafe will continue to develop relationships with OSU student farm and other
community gardens including expanding our own home garden. promoting our
restaurant and the Ohio State University's heritage of agriculture is
paramount. We are not interested in promoting or green washing other
company's who wish to co-op our initiatives and essence of our brand". </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This makes sense when you consider where they would like to see their business in the next few years "creating jobs while continuing their pursuit of truth in labeling and representing a growing trend to make greener practices the new conventional wisdom". </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We all believe there are important things the public should know or understand about food and John & Kimberly are no exception, they believe it is important for the public to know not only where our food comes from and who grows it but also what is in our food, what John refers to as being "consciously competent" and when asked what his biggest soap box is he replied </span></div>
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active participant in our food supply! we don't need more cook
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Germ_uh_nationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11438628931670090054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389677501965339406.post-63465651828307512222013-11-25T10:10:00.000-08:002013-11-25T10:10:00.996-08:00Get to Know Your Urban Farmer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I got to thinking one evening after an old school mate of mine asked how I got into urban agriculture and worm composting that I should post a little more back story than is already on our blog. Not only did I decide to write up an interview with myself (which is weird enough on it's own), but I thought it might be a good way for our readers to get to know some of our favorite local Urban Farmers and Food Slingers. So over the next few months we will be sharing what we learn with all of you. Enjoy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have worked as a professional chef for the past 15 years which I
still do full time for 10months of the year. Spring and Autumn are busier times for worm composting business and for planting and harvesting, seems like summer is big for pulling weeds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>3) <i>How did you get into urban farming to begin
with, <br />was there any family history of farming?</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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</span>I had absolutely no family history of farming or food growing (that I
know of).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t even remember ever
having any live plants around the house other than shrubs & ivy outside. MY
quest began around the time my son was about a year old, I wanted to be able to
feed my kids food that was both nutritious and safe so we started growing some
of our own vegetables and each year we planted more and more space until we
reached the 1,000 square feet that we have now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>From there the next logical step was composting and when some friends
turned us on to worm composting it took off from there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Figuring out what to do
and how to do it since I was teaching myself as I went along.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every year I try a new growing method or new
variety of fruit or vegetable or a new technique for worm composting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes there’s success but sometimes there
are epic failures and so you have to learn to either accept the loss or figure
out how to turn it around.</span></div>
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bank loans or other funding outside of your own earnings to grow your business?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Once, a small S.A.R.E. (Sustainable
Agriculture Research Education) grant to experiment with handling restaurant
food waste.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were trying to determine
if worm composting was a viable means of dealing with pre-consumer restaurant
food waste. This enabled us to expand to almost 75% what we were already doing
at the time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The two things that surprised me most were 1) How sort of Punk Rock
urban food growing is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is
definitely an air of “Fuck the System” that I carry along with me whenever I
step into the dirt. 2) How interesting I continue to find it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tend to grow bored with things and yet
there is always something new to try or learn with food production and
composting.</span></div>
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& I both) enjoy taking part in our local farmers market’s “Dirt Day”
talking with people about composting and letting kids (of all ages) dig in our
vermicompost to find red wiggler worms and other critters living in there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also do work with local schools teaching
kids about the importance of food waste recycling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We believe that working with kids is a great
way to teach their parents and get both generations interested in real food and
composting to feed the soil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition
to this we participate in numerous “green” fairs and local events as well as
work with Columbus Parks & Recreation doing educational programs with kids
and adults.</span></div>
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ask for forgiveness than permission” approach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We keep our work fairly clean and our worm composting stays less than
stinky, I think that’s the key to keeping friendly neighbors, provided they
were that way to begin with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think
we’ve been lucky in that regard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not to
mention sharing fresh vegetables and eggs with your neighbors is a good way to
keep them as allies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>The only truly sustainable means of food
production is in tandem with some sort of composting and soil rebuilding
without the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every year we discard tons of plant material
such as food scraps, that could be recycled into fertilizer for more crops with
a much broader range of nutrients than what so-called farmers are adding via the
standard NPK chemical fertilizers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On
top of that we should be dedicating far more land and labor towards growing
real food, not just commodity crops like corn, soybeans, wheat & rice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This could have great implications on the
health and well being of the public.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>10) Where would you like to see your business in the
next 5-10 years?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>We would like to grow
our worm composting business to accommodate even more of the central Ohio needs
as well as incorporate more food growing into the equation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, being a chef it would be great if
we could begin selling more value added items that are made with the food we
are growing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ideally this would become
an almost closed loop formula, grow the ingredients, make food products to sell
and feed the scraps from production to the worms which in turn create
fertilizer for the next round of growing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>11) What is your biggest soap box subject?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Advertising Marketing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I can’t stand marketing people, they are the snake oil salesmen of our
time, constantly peddling some junk claiming that it’s something it is
not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From McDonalds trying to make you
believe their kids meals have healthy options in their highly processed milk
and chemical washed apple slices to all the organic green-washing B.S. being
done to make you believe that a company is a hero for the people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, buying local is great but when you are
purchasing from a mega farm that has the same practices as every other
corporate factory “farm” it makes little difference other than how much they
are paying for gas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have tried to
steal some <br />of the same diabolical practices as large corporations and use them
for good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather than focusing on kids
to try and get their parents to waste hard <br />earned money on more junk to feed
the landfill, we focus on getting kids involved in hopes that their parents
will also get involved and begin recycling their waste into more useable
products.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Garbage is only waste if we
simply throw it away. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Thank you for all the calls asking about ordering worms, BUT we are hold for a little bit. We are a small urban farm and have to take time to let the little guys to reproduce. ( a little Barry White never hurt right?) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a wonderful job of mixing in nature with art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year we had the awesome gift of going out a couple times to talk to </span></div>
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gederthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08995045752975007683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389677501965339406.post-24118042401731175812013-07-10T08:14:00.000-07:002013-07-10T08:14:00.447-07:00Kids and Composting<br />
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We are headed out to an Art Camp for Columbus Metro Parks & Rec today. I am excited to work with kids, many who don't know much about composting. We take advantage of the fact that recycling and composting is an everyday part of how we live. <br />But not to everyone. </div>
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We love to ask kids what they know about composting. When we set the composting bin out, most kids have no fear of getting dirty. They dig right in, ask questions and root around in our worm bins. In fact, most of the time its the parents with the fear of dirt. "but it's dirty, don't touch it". Thankfully, most of the kids rebel and touch the dirt anyways. We just smile. </div>
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gederthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08995045752975007683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389677501965339406.post-65988319480038472352013-05-15T09:30:00.000-07:002013-05-15T09:30:00.374-07:00Dirt Days May 18th<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to hungry worms! Come find us in Clintonville Saturday. </span></div>
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gederthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08995045752975007683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389677501965339406.post-41533241836697987982013-05-13T19:33:00.002-07:002013-05-13T19:46:25.034-07:00Night Soil<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We stay away from composting human manure. (No safe place for it on an urban farm) But I know some folks that swear by it as a great way to create more compost for plants and keep waste out of the waste streamline.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is a great article on another person discovery </span><a href="http://is-it-safe-to-use-compost-made-from-treated-human-waste/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Is it safe to compost human waste" on NPR</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thank you for all the calls asking about ordering worms, we have plenty! </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Right now we are arranging pick ups with <br /><span id="goog_37034535"></span>Shawn at Cit<span id="goog_37034538"></span><span id="goog_37034539"></span>y Folks Farm Shop<span id="goog_37034536"></span>. </span></div>
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<strong><em>Remember this winter, we lay low, worms eat slow. Until late March, We are slow to respond to emails and posts, sorry we will reply as soon as we can. </em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>We wish we could hibernate this time of year but our kids wont let us :)</em></strong></div>
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Wild Goose Creative <a href="http://dirttheevent.brownpapertickets.com/" target="_blank">$10 for tickets</a></h3>
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Bring your compost and soil questions to the Film screening of Dirt!
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Bring a root vegetable dish for the
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<strong>Schedule: Sunday, November 4, 2012</strong><br />5:00PM @ WGC | Food, Art & Conversation, Dirt! Root Vegetable food competition judging<br />6:00PM @ WGC| Screening: Dirt! The Movie followed by Q&A discussion<br />7:30PM @ WGC | Dirt! Root Vegetable food competition judging winner announced </div>
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<strong>The Event</strong><br />We will learn about dirt and soil and its beauty, starting with
Dirt! The Movie: A movie with heart and soil. Afterward we’ll continue the party
with a Q&A panel about healthy soil and composting with local experts. Root
vegetable cooking competition will feature a host of local entries judged by our
Q&A guest panelists. And if that wasn’t enough this special evening will
also feature a collection of talented local visual artists and crafters riffing
on this uniquely themed gallery.</div>
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The Film<br />DIRT! The Movie–directed and produced by Bill Benenson and Gene
Rosow–takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth’s
most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility–from its miraculous
beginning to its crippling ruin. “Drought, climate change, even war are all
directly related to the way we are treating dirt.”</div>
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The Food!<br />Root Vegetable Cooking Competition<br />Fall is the season for
root vegetables. Do you have a favorite way to eat or prepare root vegetables?
Do you have a fantastic recipe to share? Then we would love to have you share
your dish with us! Register at wildgoosecreative.com/dirt Prizes will be awarded
for the judges’ favorite root vegetable dishes. Entries are welcome in any
category and will be judged based on taste, texture, visual appeal, and
creativity. Please make your entry for 30-40 people. Contest is limited to 12
entries, so register soon!</div>
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