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Fri, April 25, 2008 01:12:59 PMFrom:
LocalHarvest
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LocalHarvest News, April 2008 - Ark of Taste
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April 25, 2008
We're making that our wish for all of you this Spring - may you find beautiful heirloom foods locally this year, food as it was meant to be. And may you learn to enjoy food again... | |
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LocalHarvest Partners with Slow Food USA 
We at LocalHarvest have long felt an affinity
with the Slow Food movement, so we were
delighted when the opportunity arose to
develop a partnership with Slow Food USA. For
those of you who are unfamiliar with Slow
Food, it is an international organization
dedicated to promoting truly good food - food
that is, as they say, "good, clean, and
fair." We like that. And like us, they
believe that small scale farms are the
lifeblood of sustainable food systems. We
like that too.
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From the LocalHarvest Store: 
So far this month, LocalHarvest farmers have
sold over 1700 orders of seeds
through our online catalog. Think of all
those happy gardeners, and all those
luscious little seedlings that will soon be
poking up out of the soil! We have
a great collection of seeds for your garden.
Take
a look!
Want to send your Mom some organic flowers for Mother's Day? If you wait until May, they may be gone. Grown by Marc Kessler from Chico, CA, these are extraordinary bouquets, and they always sell out early. Do your Mom proud and plan ahead.
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Video: An Evening with Carlo Petrini 
In honor of the new LH-Slow Food USA
partnership, we bring you the founder of Slow
Food himself, Carlo Petrini. Mr. Petrini
speaks eloquently (and in Italian, no less!)
about the globalized food system and the
richness of its alternatives. Many thanks to
Cooking Up a Story for sharing this video
with us.
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Member Reviews: Who Do You Love? 
This week we launched a member review feature
on LocalHarvest! We get lots and
lots of emails telling us things like, "This
farm is great!", or "This market
is a fake," or "We recommend this farm's pork
chops." We love hearing from you
all, but we wanted to have a place for you to
share this feedback with
everyone. Now you all can share your opinions
about individual farms through the
member reviews.
Writing a review for a LH member is easy: just go to your chosen listing and click on the review link under the farm name. You'll be asked to log in (or register) and then you'll be on your way! Check it out - we love to hear what you think What we really want is for everyone to be talking about small farms and good food. In addition to sharing your opinions through our member reviews, you can also talk about local food and farming topics in the general LH Forum, launched last year. Coming soon: product reviews for the items in our catalog.
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Nancy's Nutrition Corner - "Awesome Almonds" 
Many people worry that almonds, and nuts in
general, are too fatty to eat on a regular
basis. They couldn't be more wrong! Current
research reveals that almonds are not only
the most nutritionally dense nut, they
actually decrease one's risk of weight gain.
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Recipe Almond Joy - By Lorna Sass 
Almonds don't have the immediate snack appeal
of pistachios or walnuts, but boy do they
make a fabulous nut butter. I don't remember
the first time I tasted almond butter, but I
do remember pushing the peanut butter to the
back of the pantry shelf from that moment on.
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Contact Information
email:
newsletter@localharvest.org
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One of the best parts of my job is getting to
talk to farmers. This afternoon I called
Ber-Gust Farm in western Ohio and talked with
Rick Kabara while he planted potatoes. (He
had already put in 1208 hills when I called,
and had another 600 to go for the day.) Like
many LocalHarvest farmers, Rick and his wife
Joanie grow a number of heirloom foods. In
this issue of our newsletter we're announcing
our new effort to promote "endangered" foods,
so I wanted to ask him why they make a point
of growing unusual varieties. Rick was quiet
for a minute and then he said, "The biggest
reason we like to grow old-fashioned
varieties is that, well, I love food." It
doesn't get any more honest than that. He
went on to talk about how he sees that so
many people have forgotten what good food
tastes like because they have gotten so used
to "grocery store food." Rick likes to tell
people who join their CSA, "You're going to
learn to enjoy food again..."
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