I don't care where my food comes from -- and neither should you.

UPI ^ | September 26, 2002 | Ronald Bailey

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

Hate to tell you this cowboy, but in just about anywhere in the country you can't grow food year round. The problem is little season called winter. It's a cold time of year when green things freeze. We grow our own taters, tomatoes, green beans, etc. We grow enough so that we can put them away for the winter. It's a lost skill called canning.

As far as meat is concerned, it is entirely possible to purchase food from local folks that are looking for a market for well raised beef, pork, lamb and chicken. We have a source for beef raised entirely on grass, fattened on organic corn. The taste is vastly superior to anything you get at the superstore. Properly raise lamb and pork is also available if you take the time to look for it. We purchase our eggs from a lady who lives on the edge of town. These eggs have firm, yellowish-orange yolks that are outstanding. We even found a reliable source of raw milk.

By supporting locally produced agricultural products you get more healthful, better tasting food. In addition, you can support folks that are trying to make a go on family farms. By supporting producers that don't use excessive chemicals we promote good environmental stewardship without the shadow of big brother. By avoiding ingestion of hormones in our food, me and the missus are working to ensure the fertility of our children and produce more conservatives.

[dennisw]

Best corn is in the MidWest. Not super sweet. Just right. Wisconsin in particular. Go ask catspaw.

Skip past that hybrid corn but you prolly do.

[independentmind]

Wanna make a bet on that , nopardons (aka Queen of Bile)? I grew up in New Jersey and know a fair amount about local produce grown the general vicinty of NYC. Take your pretentious pontificating somewhere else, lady. You try a bit too hard to convince me.

[independentmind]

Gotta disagree with you, dennisw. I lived in downtown Chicago for ten years (DID YOU HEAR THAT!!!) and I think that the locally grown corn in South Jersey beats anything I've ever tasted in the Midwest.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

Excuse me, but some of the best sweet corn in the world is grown in the Midwest. You'll never see it in the stores though. Fertilized by chicken cr@p or manure from the hog pen. We consume it as it's harvested. Alot of it is sold in the parking lot at Lowes in the city. I can't tell you how many zip-locs we've got full of the stuff in the chest freezer. This ain't no chic stuff. Just good food like grandma use to feed us.

There is absolutely no inconsistency between supporting responsible locally-grown agriculture and being a fire breathing conservative. In fact, every conservative needs to know how to grow their own food so when the leviathan begins to breathe down our necks we can survive.

I am trying to locate a good source of apples to put up some hard cider. Some day I wanna put up some home made wine and some home brew.

[nopardons]

dick = D-U-C-K

[independentmind]

Pssst.

Ingrediants=ingredients.

[nopardons]

I've lived in N.Y., Chicago, and Conn. and don't think that Wiconson corn is all that tastey. It depends on what you're used to or culitvated a taste for. I buy local corn ( the farm is just down the road a ways ), so no, I'm not buying / eating " hybrid " stuff.

[nopardons]

Take that gigantic log out of your own eye ; the supposed mote, in mine, is nonexistant.

Actually, as far as bile, pretention, and pontificating goes, you take the cake, dear. Also, your class envy / hatred is beyond hillarious; it's stupifying ! LOL

[Senator Pardek]

I do that in between lengthening all of my dresses down to the floor--by hand, course.

Har - and here I am thinking that you are one of those crackpots who take flame wars personally ;)

[nopardons]

Each to his own, dear.

I don't know what kind of fertilizer is used on Long Island, nor even down the road, here in Conn.; however, I buy my corn AT THE FARM. There are Farmers' markets in downtown Manhattan and Chicago. For those disinclined to buy there or at a supermarket, the drive to a farmstand, isn't all that long. What makes you think that you have a corner on that market ? LOL

I've had corn grown in various places. I prefer Long Island or Conn. to MidWest corn. Simple as that.

Now, NOW , you're bringing up survivalist garbage ? Goodness gracious ... anyone can grow food. Ther's nothing " mysterious " to it. If you think that the end is neigh, growing food in radioactive soil isn't the answer.

[spodefly]

I even knew the names of the cows and pigs we ate.

Bad advice ... take it from someone who grew up on a farm ... never name your food.

We had a particular steer, a white-face, that always came over to the fence whenever we were playing in the front yard ... my sister, who was 3 years younger than me, and I named him 'Henry' ... well, one day Henry stopped coming over to the fence, and we learned that Henry had gone off to be butchered (this was when I was about 7 and a little too young to actually be there for that part of the farm life ... ) When the 'henry-steaks' arrived, we were all put off by it, and my sister and I cried and generally ruined it for my parents and other siblings ...

So ... don't name your food ...

[flying Elvis]

Soylet Green is people!!!!

[dennisw]

There is absolutely no inconsistency between supporting responsible locally-grown agriculture and being a fire breathing conservative. A conservative conserves what is good.

Why should the hippies and anarchists be eating all the well grown local food? The health benefits are squandered on them.

[gcruse]

 I'm quite a serious cook, you know. (I do that
in between lengthening all of my dresses down to the floor--by hand,
course.)

Martha?  Is that you?  Clinton called.
He said he feels you pain.

[gcruse]

 ISo ... don't name your food ...
 

You know, we got an Easter chick when
I was a kid and named him Henry, too.
Later had to change that to Henrietta.
Anyway, old Henry disappeared to
day, and danged if we didn't have
chicken for dinner that night.  I don't
want to point fingers, but I allus wondered...

[dennisw]

I had it right from the farm in Wisconsin (60 miles north of Milwaukee) and it was the best. Also at the local corn fest near Kettle Moraine State park where we camped. Not overly sweet which is an insult! It's easy to make sickenly sweet hybrids which are what you've been getting.

[independentmind]

Where did you ever get the idea that Martha was a serious cook? Most of her supposed skills came from her staff, from what I've heard.

[nopardons]

If you haven't ever had any corn, from anyother place, then you just don't know. LOL

[gcruse]

I never watched the show, so I got all my impressions from the news. I thought Martha did everything, and did it
perfectly. This is a series letdown. ;)