Fresh Stop and go
This past week and the previous, I've picked up a bag of locally-produced quality veggies and fruits at City Fresh's Clark-Metro Neighborhood Fresh Stop (other locations...) Here's what's fresh this week. $10 or $20 gets you a big bagfull.
The vegetable influx is forcing me to cook more, (my first corn chowder and fried green tomatoes last week,) and to learn a bit more about food storage.
We suffered an eggplant casualty a few days ago. Everyone has been in mourning except for the compost bin, (who's slowcooking his mortal remains,) and the blueberries, (who never really knew him.)
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We must now have a discussion about urban compost bins and the avoidance of Drosophila melanogaster. I've been looking to start a compost pile myself. If I do that it will take me a month to fill up a trash can!
-- Adam Harvey (August 1, 2006 8:56 AM)
ya -- fruit flies annoy.
i use "public" bins that I don't take care of, so I mosey up with my bucket, dump it, and run, swatting.
in the apartment, I keep the bucket in the cupboard under my sink, and typically line it with, (and throw in crumples of,) newspaper to keep things dry and semi enclosed... but there's almost always one or two little dudes hanging around.
-- jeffschuler (August 1, 2006 9:29 AM)
Where is a nearby public bin? I'll be on that like Mama Cass on a ham sandwich.
-- Adam Harvey (August 2, 2006 8:13 AM)
It's only /mostly/ public. there's a community garden on the west side of W.14th, just south of the bridge, with a few bins.
They said I could use them, and tell a few others, but that I shouldn't (yet, at least) pass the word on to tremonter.com.
I guess I can still tell organicmechanic.org, though.
-- jeffschuler (August 2, 2006 9:50 AM)
Right on, I'll keep it under my hat for the moment. If you have contact info, I'd like to ask permission to use it.
-- Adam Harvey (August 3, 2006 8:39 AM)