My name is Heather. I'm a 27 year old, underemployed attorney living in Westchester County, NY. I've tried doing the blogging thing several times before. I have a LiveJournal, which I haven't posted to in a long time, and I have a knitting blog that I haven't updated in forever because, well, mostly I never quite get around to taking pictures of my knitting. But, this blog will be different. Why? Because this blog has a purpose.
In brief, I'm trying to eat better. This has nothing to do with wanting to lose weight or lower my cholesterol. It has everything to do with trying to move as far away from industrial food production as possible. No, I'm not going to move to a commune or become a vegan. I've done the whole vegetarian thing before, and it's not for me. I've come to terms with my consumption of animals, but that doesn't mean I want to eat a chicken that spent its entire life in a cage or a cow that never ate grass. I'm not going to go into all of the grisly details here, but I highly suggest anyone that's interested in this sort of thing read Michael Pollan's book The Omnivore's Dilemma.
What I'm hoping is that keeping this blog will help me organize my thoughts and goals. One of my major goals is to try to eat more local produce and to eat more seasonally. That means I'll have to track down a good farmers' market. I also want to grow some of my own food. The problem with that is that I rent and so I can't really tear up the backyard for a vegetable garden. It's not totally hopeless, though. I'm going to try growing things in containers. I'll also have to learn how to preserve food, which means learning how to can vegetables. Oh, and I want to do all of this as organically and sustainably as possible.
So, here's a list of some of the things you'll find in this blog:
- Accounts of my gardening misadventures including, most likely, what NOT to do.
- Recipes using seasonal produce, including canning recipes that I've tested.
- Reviews of books, magazines and websites that are related to gardening or cooking.
- Reviews of e-tailers, because I love online shopping and am usually too lazy to actually drive around searching for things.
- Maybe, if you're lucky, some pictures.
That's it! Introduction over. Time to get on with the real blogging.
1 comment:
You might already know this, but on Wednesday they have a farmer's market thing in White Plains. (Or at least they did last year.) Most of the stuff being sold is from Hudson Valley area farms.
It's in a kind of alley way near municipal parking on Main St. (Approximately across the street from The Atlantic Bread Company, just north of Mammaroneck.
Scott
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