December 21st, 2011 by Becky Striepe
Yesterday, I was lucky enough to ride out to some Athens farms with Margie. When we passed that hay snowman above, I knew that we had to have a second Vegetable Husband Christmas card this year.
Our first visit was out to Mills Farm, where I got to see how Alice and Tim Mills make our corn grits and corn flower. I have to say, it blew my mind! Tim basically built the mill mechanism out of spare parts, and it mills the corn without a lick of electricity! Their donkey, Luke, runs their mill. Check out the mill in action:
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Athens, hunger, local food, Mills Farm, power of community
November 30th, 2011 by Becky Striepe
…and now for something completely different!
We tend to focus on the veggies around here, but there are other stars at Vegetable Husband besides what’s in the basket. This week, I got to chat with a couple of our newest drivers. Both of them are long-time Vegetable Husband customers who now deliver your weekly baskets. They shared a bit about why they’ve started delivering and what was local on their Thanksgiving tables!
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CSA, local food, local Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving
November 10th, 2011 by Becky Striepe
Yesterday was practically a party at Vegetable Husband HQ! A lot of the drivers are shy about me taking their photos, so Margie suggested that I swing by later on in the day, when two of my best friends in all of Atlanta were picking up their veggies for delivery. We gabbed and swapped recipes, and they let me take some pictures of our fun veggie times!
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Atlanta, community, CSA, eat local, eating carrots, food photos, friends, local food, sharing, Vegetable Husband
September 19th, 2011 by Becky Striepe
Thanks to all of the fine folks that made it out to the Vegetable Husband Third Anniversary Party at Home Grown! It was wonderful to share food, drinks, stories, and silliness with all of you! Local photographer Bonnie Heath was kind enough to set us up with a fun photo booth, and those photos are now online for you to enjoy. The picture above is from the booth, and it features our musical entertainment for the evening: Mule Skinner Trio. Thanks so much to the Trio and to Bonnie for adding such festive touches to the event!
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anniversary party, buy local, Georgia, local food, organic food, third anniversary
July 1st, 2011 by Lynn
I wanted to post another quick and easy recipe with the delicious vegetables from our basket this week. If you have a rice maker the recipe is even easier!
Saffron Rice With Vegetables
Ingredients:
1 bunch Green Beans
1 bulb Fennel
3 Carrots
1 Sweet Onion
4 cloves of garlic
2 squash
2 cups Jasmine rice
Chop up all of the vegetables and add to a rice cooker (or in a pot on the stove). Add the rice and 3 cups of water. Add a large pinch of saffron, 1/2 tsp garlic powder(optional), 1/2 tsp onion powder(optional), and salt and pepper. If you have a rice cooker just close the lid and press cook as usual. If not, simmer on the stove on low heat until all the water is absorbed into the rice (about 20 minutes). Enjoy!
If you want to use brown rice add two extra cups of water and about 20 to 30 minutes longer cooking time.
