#localvore

[roadtripnewengland]

Apple picking & cider donuts at Cider Hill Farm in Amesbury, Massachusetts #massachusetts_igers #applepicking #ciderdonuts🍩

[casstaway-friend]

Enjoying some pickled chantrelles on my sandwich today. Wild foraged from the woods i live in over the summer!

[gullahislandfarmer]

We gathered lettuce and basil from our kitchen porch boxes to make a salad for dinner last night. It was served along with onions, cranberries and feta cheese and went great with the pizza and wings. @amjones42 #gardenfresh #lettuce #saladgreens #salads #localvore #containergarden #containertoplate #fieldtofork #farm2table #freshfoods

[themerrycorgi]

My experience with DIY Dishwasher Soap

When I decided to trend towards an eco-friendly lifestyle, I realized a huge part of that would include my cleaning products. They were all chemicals and gels and I was about to run out of dishwasher detergent.. so what’s a girl to do?

Well, I took out a locking glass jar I had previously stored coffee in and threw in:

2 cups washing soda

2 cups borax

1 cup citric acid

1 cup salt

I mixed ‘em all together and, when the time came to do dishes, I took a normal large kitchen spoon, put a scoop in, and then put the spoon in the wash and turned it on.

My dishes came out sparkling clean! A few washes later, the issues became apparent. It was leaving water marks and residue on some dishes, and.. it was clumping. Really badly clumping. Like I-had-to-scrape-off-the-top bad. After a week of pounding a spoon into a solid rock of detergent to try to wash my spotty dishes, I gave up. 

(My boyfriend likes to blame me leaving the container near the sink for this clumping issue, and like, he’s probably right, but still! How rude.)

I pulled out all the detergent and broke it back up into a powder, and I added salt. A lot of salt. I don’t know how much. But, like, a lot.

This is not only supposed to fix hard water problems, but somewhere in the back of my head it would also fix the clumping?

So with a determined face I mixed it all up, put it back in the jar, and put did a load of dishes. 

The dishes were less spotty! There was no residue! And over the next month it became apparent (yes, this shit will last you MONTHS), that the clumping wasn’t coming back. There are a few tiny clumps, and my boyfriend insists it settles so he violently shakes the container before he scoops any, but I’m not convinced.

Either way, score 1 for the environment and for me, score 0 for Target brand washing machine detergent. 

[steel-cutoats]

A couple batches of some fermented vegetables in the making. Inside these jars are cucumbers, peas, carrots, dandelion greens, chard, onions, garlic, dill, sea salt and water. Everything was grown right here on the farm. Fermented foods have played a vital role in our survival throughout human history. Many of our ancestors fermented food this way as a means to preserve vegetables for eating during the cold seasons. Fermentation is a miracle, in the right conditions, it can preserve food for years. Flavor is one bonus to this method of storage, but another is the many health benefits and nutritional improvements that come along with it. Our bodies are ecosystems, we may think that these vessels are solely ours, but in truth they are inhabited by trillions of microorganisms, many of which we can't properly function without. From fending off harmful bacteria, to helping our bodies create essential vitamins and even aiding in the production of the neurotransmitter serotonin. Our symbiotic relationship with these invisible lifeforms plays a vital role in our existence, we owe it to ourselves and to them to continue the practice of naturally fermenting our foods, and to avoid chemicals and ingredients that disrupt and kill these delicate ecosystems within us. I highly encourage you to do this yourselves, it's one of the simplest ways to ferment and you can do it with any edible vegetable or mushroom. Simply rinse what you're fermenting, stuff it tightly into a quart jar, add 2.5 tea spoons of sea salt and cover it with water and a lid. Open it up at least once a day to ensure that there are no explosions, and then enjoy within seven days or more.

[wannabgourmande]

Ask and ye shall receive! Red Wine Chocolate Cupcakes are LIVE! 🍷🍫❤ Come and try some, because it's never too early for booze!#PistachioBakehouse #chocolate #redwine #cupcake #pastry #ganache #valentine #KansasCity #localvore #foodiegram #FoodieChats #kcmo #PiratesBone #bakery #meringue (at Pirate's Bone)

[valpalgalpal]

at least it's locally sourced

[buffalomarket]

One of the more interesting things I learned on my visit to the local honey farm was how the local plant life factors into the honey-making ...

san francisco honey