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Food Day Activities (Week Two) - Don't forget

The Tallahassee Food Network is really pulling together a great slew of events.  I will be at the Food Trucks Thursday evening; I'm coordinating the Community Garden Tour this Saturday; I'll attend the Food-O-Rama event at Kleman Plaza on Sunday, 1-6pm.  Amidst that window, I'll most certainly be in attendance from 3-5pm at Tallahassee Food Network's Youth Symposium on Food and Hunger , organized by my friend Qasimah Boston with Project F.O.O.D (at Kleman Plaza in TCC conference center). Monday, Oct 23rd, will be a juggling act from exhibiting my truck which I'll have planted full of veggies at the Florida Grown School Lunch Week Kick-Off at the Capital 10am-1pm and presenting at the Sustainable You Conference on "Food and Community Gardening 101" at 3pm.  See you around town.  Happy Food Day. (Details below) Food Day seeks to bring together Americans from all walks of life—parents, teachers, and students; health professionals, community organizers,

Taking Notes

Had to get a kitchen scale at Panhandlers Kitchen Supply today because my lettuce is ready for the eating and I want to document my harvest. Bought a kitchen scale today.  For the past two+ years I've been in business, folks have asked me, "But how much can I expect to grow in such-and-such a garden?"  I've answered with my own experiences, with rough estimates of numbers of heads of lettuce, harvests of collard greens, ranges of anticipated production rates of tomato plants.  Finally, I'm going to document what I grow in my own garden, pound by pound, ounce by ounce.  I've got the space equivalent of (5) 4x4 raised beds, so I'll have five replicates to share and some averages for the cool season come March/April.  Then I'll document spring season. Meanwhile, the work of the food movement to develop resilient community-based food systems is all the more important: Received the note below from Second Harvest of the Big Bend mentioning that they ar

Mary Ann Lindley: Food Day takes to the streets (and gardens), TD, Oct 9, 2011

Graciously, Mary Ann Lindley at the Tallahassee Democrat agreed to write her op-ed piece on Tallahassee-area Food Day activities being coordinated by countless spokes of the Tallahassee Food Network . Mary Ann Lindley: " Food Day takes to the streets (and gardens) " Sunday, Oct 9, 2011 Tallahassee Democrat Beautiful Picture by Inga Finch A few years ago, ice cream moved to my short list of wicked foods. It's kind of a joke at our house, where I'm learning to make frozen yogurt, thanks to the cheerfully entertaining kind of wedding present you get when you are middle-aged. In addition to the emotional appeal of ice cream, it's Exhibit A — maybe B, if you count a nice glass of wine — of items that we tell ourselves we "deserve." Long day, hot day, too much going on, exhausted, annoyed, heartbroken, depressed: Ice cream with all the trimmings comes to the rescue. Still, very little can be said for it nutritionally, not even if you're look

Of Interest

A few links and pictures of interest: Tallahassee Food Network      A Growing Hub of Tallahassee's food movement      & the site to visit for all the details on Tallahassee-area Food Day Activities Tallahassee Community Gardening Program      Get your neighbors together, start a community garden on city land Grow to Learn NYC      Awesome NYC-based school garden program Grow the Planet       Super cool crowd-sourcing garden how-to resource Urban Agriculture Training      Georgia Organics is offering an awesome 10 month training in ATL Urban Farming Guys      Group of Guys in Kansas City who offer great DIY home-growing videos My Farm      A "Farmville-isk" experiment in crowd-sourcing farm management Tallahassee Edible Garden Club      Edible Garden Tours plus monthly peer-to-peer edible garden info exchange Ample Harvest      A Food Gardener to Food Pantry connector site And a few pictures:     My new pyramid raised bed. Bill's suga