Locavore dinner

[flea]

Smoked polish (pork) sausage - Fickle Creek Farm (excellent!)
Mashed potatoes (Kroger) and turnips (SEEDS)
Butter Lettuce (Maple Creek Farm) with dressing (Paul Newman)
Bread (Whole foods) and butter (Kroger)

I could have bought potatoes at the Farmer's Market, but we already had some that needed to be used.

Also bought: early strawberries (surely greenhouse, right?), spinach, white sweet potato (only one, it is immense), kale seedlings, pork chops.

We should do a locavore dinner every weekend; aside from vegetables and berries in season (alas no tree fruits), there are pork, chickens, eggs, goat, cheese, and beef available. Interestingly, not milk or butter.

Comments

[serrana.livejournal.com]

The regulations are pretty fearsome for small producers. For example, around here one can only sell frozen meats at the farmer's market. Nobody seems to sell eggs at the market, but a lot of people sell them private sale (and, of course, since chickens are legal here in town, there are a lot of us with coops). I know of someone from whom I can get raw milk, but I'd rather have the pasteurized stuff from the local dairy.

I think a lot of the regulations are, in practice, avoidable once you get to know someone who knows someone, but not if you just go to the market. There is a big market, but right now it's a gray market because of the USDA. *grin* As I am wont to say, write your congressthing about the current Farm Bill....