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Great Local Stuff

Posted at 11:20 PM on January 24, 2008 by Vera Schabicki (4 Comments)

The main successes I have thus far had are local sweet potatoes and greens (collard, turnip and mustard). Four out of seven of us like them very much.
I have ordered bulk rice from Southern Brown Rice, in Weiner, Arkansas, for a couple of years. They have a very tasty brown basmati and a nice wild rice mix that I like to get. They have a web page for looking at prices and selection but one must telephone to order. Sometimes they are busy harvesting and you have to call back.
There is milk in glass bottles to be had at the Easy Way store, from Rock Springs Dairy in Wildersville, Tennessee. There was a nice article in the Memphis Commercial Appeal about them; they seem to be essentially organic.
The flu seems to be finally behind us and the Christmas stuff is put away so we can hopefully roll up our sleeves and find some more stuff, because baby, our larder is getting empty.
With best regards, Vera

Comments (4)

I am encouraged about this project and very encouraged to find a participent living so close to us in this rather backwoods MS town. Will the wonders never cease?

Posted by Van Cheeseman | January 25, 2008 1:59 PM

Hi Vera,

Congrats on being involved in this project. I live in Memphis and I am always on the search for some local veggies and fruits.

I buy milk from Peter sometimes and I am considering having a few chickens in my yard starting in the spring, so we can have our own chicken eggs. Self sufficiency is the greatest hope for fresh local foods. We will start a lasagna layered style garden in the spring.

Have you been to the farmers market downtown?
I heard you can get organic veggies there very early in the morning, until they sell out.

Also the Agri center has an organic farmer who comes up, and sells till it is sold out. I think the prices may be better at the downtown market.

Good luck,
Jyotsna

Posted by Jyotsna | January 25, 2008 4:49 PM

Jyotsna,

What is a lasagna layered style garden? I don't think that I have ever heard of this before.

Posted by Scott | January 25, 2008 6:17 PM

Hey Scott!

Patricia Lanza wrote Lasagna Gardening. The idea is that you put together a garden bed in layers, like a lasagna. The bottom layer is newspaper or cardboard or something to keep down the grass or weeds or whatever you have, then you add a layer of grass from the lawnmower, or compost or peat moss or manure or whatever. I think the top layer is supposed to be dirt. You wind up with a raised bed, and no digging! We built a couple of them back in California, where we had a layer of hard pan a few inches under the surface. They work!

Cheers!
Scott

Posted by Scott Fader | January 28, 2008 10:04 PM