April 25th, 2012 by Becky Striepe
Happy Wednesday! We’ve got a great basket coming to your doors today, and I have some fun news about a local event on Friday that you guys will totally dig. But first! What’s in the basket? This week, you can expect:
March 28th, 2012 by Becky Striepe
One of the awesome things about Vegetable Husband is that Margie’s philosophy is all about getting good, healthy food to the people. Many of the volunteers work in trade for a basket of their own, and many of us couldn’t otherwise afford such fresh, local, organic food. That’s why I was super excited to hear this week that three of our drivers have brand new jobs! Yay! Read on to find out who! Read the rest of this entry »
January 25th, 2012 by Becky Striepe
This has been one spooky winter, hasn’t it? Any time we have shorts weather in January here in north Georgia, it feels like things are just a bit off. That warm weather has meant we’ve had a longer growing season, though, and our baskets have been bountiful! This week’s basket is shaping up beautifully despite some rocky moments pulling the food together. The Georgia hoophouse cherry tomatoes and local spaghetti squash fell through, but Margie was able to replace them with cherry tomatoes from an organic farm in Florida and acorn squash from a farm here in Georgia.
Despite the warmer weather, we are reaching that point in the winter where the bounty starts to wane a bit, and that means leaning on our friends in neighboring states to fill out our baskets. We had to borrow a couple of veggies this week from Florida farmers, and you can be assured that as soon as our local Georgia farmers can supply us, we’ll see baskets that are 100% Georgia grown once again.
Margie and I chatted a bit about local food this morning, and for both of us it’s as much about supporting small farmers directly as it is about fresh, healthy eats. Getting goods from neighboring states when the pickin’s here are slim may up the food miles, but it still helps put our food dollars directly in the hands of farmers rather than those of a large corporation, and that’s so important in this economic climate.
If you need some recipes for this week’s basket, we’ve got you covered, too! Read the rest of this entry »
January 11th, 2012 by Becky Striepe
I believe strongly that you get back from the universe what you put out there, and this week at Vegetable Husband was a prime example of great karma!
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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