Well “I just went ahead and did it!” No--though not as exciting as a facelift--I ate okra leaves. Now you probably have to be fairly desperate to eat okra leaves, which I found out through firsthand experience, since they are not easy to soften up for eating.
Posts to Raccupine Farms reflect "Life in our Shoes". For me it means practicing Yoga and Nia, helping my husband, Nathan, in our organic vegetable garden, getting enough sleep, and re-embracing a “so cool” relationship with my husband. Life..is..SO..good! Turns out, this blog is a love story of sorts, for healthy living, nurturing relationships, and building community.
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
Monday, August 9, 2010
Eating what’s “hot” when it’s hot!
In Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal Vegetable Miracle she urges us to digress to a time-- before trucks burned fossil fuel ad nauseam to transport fresh vegetables coast to coast--when we had no choice but to eat what was grown locally. Where I grew up--in Maine in the 50’s and well into the 70’s--there only was local produce. Kingsolver’s wonder-filled book encourages us to buy local produce and be creative in eating it every way imaginable until that crop runs out and the next abundant vegetable crops up to challenge us to do it all over again. Animal Vegetable Miracle is a veritable gold mine of Kingsolver’s family’s experiences doing just that and it even contains recipes we all can use.
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