Truly Happy Meat
Dec 30, 2008 cooking, farming, groceries, sustainable agriculture
I’m only singling her out because she made a post about something I’d been meaning to comment on previously but, in the forum thread “Food Related Goals for 2009“, Merridith wrote:
…I want to restrict my meat eating, as best I can, to sustainably produced, naturally raised, animals. First choice will be to buy direct from the farmer, if I need it fast, I will buy it from the organic grocery.
The idea of this is absolutely great, but the reality is that even meat at an organic grocer isn’t really all that happy because terms like organic, free range, and pastured have all been picked up by agribusiness and distorted wildly. You can have “organic” pork that was confined just as you can have “pastured” beef that is really just pumped full of corn. And that’s not to say I don’t occasionally buy meat in a store like Whole Foods,
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Tags: American Grass Fed Beef, Local Harvest, Riverfront Times, sappington farmers market, Whole Foods, Winslow's Home
Yet another Article About Sappington Farmers’ Market
Feb 7, 2008 groceries, sustainable agriculture
There’s yet another article about Sappington Farmer’s Market in the Suburban Journals today. Nothing new particularly, but this one does crack me up thanks to the quote the Suburban Journals decided to put in the article.
Frequent Sappington farmer’s market shopper Mary Toler, of Webster Groves, thinks the change is just great.
“I’m glad and I always think it’s better to keep buy local, so I think this will be an even better change.”
“I get mostly produce here because it’s cheaper than going to another and paying a whole, whole lot” she said. “It’s amazing. A whole bag of grapefruits are like $3.99 and at another store you buy a grapefruit and it’s a dollar. It’s a good deal.”
Nothing says local like grapefruit!
Tags: farmers market, grapefruit, sappington farmers market, suburban journals
More on Sappington Farmer’s Market
Jan 30, 2008 farmers' markets, farming, groceries
STLtoday.com has an article today with more information about the Sappington Farmer’s Market.
These are some excerpts, but you can read the full article here.
The Missouri Farmers Union has something new to grow.
The statewide group of family farmers is buying the Sappington International Farmer’s Market.
We want to make it local. Our goal is to have as many Missouri products as possible,” Greenspan said.
The market hopes to get enough locally produced items so that it can showcase certain products each weekend, Wood said. The plan would include having representatives from farms and other local businesses demonstrate and explain their products to shoppers.
Do you think it bothered Gail Appleson as it bothered me when she had to type “Farmer’s” instead of “Farmers’” that one time as it’s their name?
Tags: farmers union, missouri farmers, sappington farmers market
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