"Buy Fruit, Save a Farm"

Thanks to "Bloviatrix" (not her real name, heh) for this link to an article in the Washington Post: Buy Fruit, Save a Farm. I know: preaching to the choir: you don't need anyone to tell you that fruit from a farmer you know, picked that morning, is going to taste better than the waxy plastic stuff at the Safeway, right?

Above, left, is one of my favorite designs ("Lettuce Praise Farmers") from GastroGear.com ("Because cooking naked hurts"): it's available on a canvas bag and several other items at one of my two CafePress stores. (I also have a more irreverent line of designs at GetShirty.net.)

From GetShirty.net, in honor of the August 2005 Locavores Challenge, to the right, "Please God, No More Fast Food." If there is a particular product in the CafePress line you want to order, and you don't see it, let me know and I'll probably be able to create one easily. (My email address is posted on both of those sites, so you can find it when you're there.)

I am working on a calendar of small farms for next year, and am very excited about that, as you can imagine.

I forgot to post about my best Locavore dinner over the weekend: H&H Fresh Fish local halibut steak with mushrooms and shallots (cooked in a foil envelope), Live Earth Farm green beans with Dirty Girl Produce Early Girl tomatoes cooked with Meder Street Farm garlic and Everett Family Farm basil, and Thomas Farm "German butterball" smashed potatoes. Ooooweeee, was it ever good. My bee-yoo-tee-full stepdaughter, Ariel, sure picked the right night to stop in and visit us. She is mostly vegetarian, and I was glad she bent her rules to have fish, because it was very very good.

We were all very glad for each other's company, and for a beautiful summer evening here in Eden on the Monterey Bay.

More halibut tonight, and Joe Schirmer's yellow wax beans with a similar treatment. "So much basil, so little thyme." Hey, I think I've got a new slogan for a food design.

Comments

[shannon]

Oh! Georgia desperately needs one of those lettuce designs!!! Cafepress have any babywear options?

[tanabutler]

Ask and it shall be given.

I just created several new products with this design, including a bib, a creeper, and a couple of kids' t-shirts.