Back at it again!

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