Local Foods Challenge 2011
July 18-Aug 16 (30 Days)
Last year's "Eat Local Food Challenge" was so much fun and educating that a few of us have decided to make it an annual challenge! So we are back at it again--starting tomorrow! For the past week, I have been mindful on my change in diet coming up so I have been picking up items here and there to make my kick-off a little less bumpy than last year's. Thanks to last year's challenge, I know exactly where to go for those hard-to-find items...like local milk. I also have remained fairly local since last year's challenge by growing a garden, keeping chickens, saving back meat in the deep freeze, and learning how to preserve items like canned tomatoes, peppers and salsa...drying beans, freezing corn and berries, and jamming! This morning I took time to inventory what local food items I have and here's my list:
Pantry:
Weisenberger (Grits, Cornmeal, Flour, Muffin Mixes) Midway, Ky
Sliced Whole Wheat Mountain Crunch Bread Berea, Ky
Beans: Salamander Springs Pintos & Black, Jacob’s Cattle Kidney Rockcastle Co, Ky
Strawberry Jam, Blackberry Jam, Apple Jelly, Pepper Jelly Homestead
Dairy:
J.D. Milk & Cream Berea
Kenney’s Cheddar Cheese Berea
Eggs Homestead
Meats:
Beef Homestead
Whole Frozen Chicken Homestead
Benton’s Bacon Sweet Water, Tn
Sliced Ham Middlesboro, Ky
Produce:
Onions, Garlic, Tomatoes, Potatoes, Corn, Cukes, Zukes, Squash, Peppers
Dried Mushrooms Homestead and Farmers’ Mkt
Misc:
Honey, Molasses
Herbs: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, Thyme, Basil, Mint, Tarragon Coriander
Restaurants:
Boone Tavern: Berea
Black Feather: Berea
Smokey Bears?: Corbin
Virgil’s Café: Newport, Ky
Mia’s, Stella’s: Lexington
Where We Can Shop:
Knoxville Farmers Mkt, Earth Fare has 65 local items
Whitley County Mkt, Laurel Co Farmers’ Mkt
Berea Farmers’ Mkt, Happy Meadows Health Food Store
Good Foods Co-op, Lexington Farmers Mkt
Happy shopping!
K
