Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Cooking from scratch doesn't need to take more time and effort than the 
drivethru line at McDooDoos. The kitchen skills need to be learned, best by 
working with someone who's done it, who knows how to make good meals from 
whatever's in the garden, the  pantry or icebox (that dates me!) My partner 
Barb learned from her mother since she was big enough to reach the kitchen 
counter, and her immigrant mother raised and cooked for her younger siblings 
alone after HER mother died in Italy, since she was 11 years old. Now her 
daugher Barb says she can even cook on a wood stove if she needs to. When 
Barb whips up something really good in a hurry she jokes that she spent all 
day over a hot stove ;-) And it doesn't take a fancy kitchen (the kind you 
see on TV that nobody ever cooks in).

But yes, it's not an uncommon problem. People at the markets keep asking her 
how you fix squash or whatever. I always wonder why they buy stuff they don't 
know what to do with. (I like ending with prepositions, dangling participles, 
split infinitives; and I have a good reason.)

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 11/8/2009 at 3:37 PM Dan Conine wrote:

>> Message: 7
>> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 11:48:25 -0600
>> From: Emery Mitchamore <emitch@att.net>
>>
>> I'm finding that our problem with this subject is very mundane:
>> Growing some of our food is easier than preparing it.  That has
>> surprised me, and I still don't have a solution.  Preparing healthy,
>> fresh food so that it is delicious requires some skill, time and
>> effort.  Surely that is not an uncommon problem.
>
>Yes Mitch, I know what you mean. Though I am a great fan of CSAs(I found
>the hard way that the model doesn't work for my addled brain at this
>time), the CSA works well at distributing information and developing
>community as a family type environment. We can give out pamphlets and
>recipes at the markets, but it isn't the same as having worker share
>subscribers coming together for meals and seeing how things are prepared.
>
>Dan C.
>