What do locavores eat in February? A lot!
By February we have finally caught our breath and can enjoy visitng other farms and can finally turn those frozen berries into jams and pies.
Creation Pharm is only ½ mile away but you’d think it was in another state! We’ve started a tradition of watching the Superbowl together and sharing our stored treasures over a meal. We provide the meat and let Mike do the cooking. This year we had Beef Ribs with a Honey-Habanero-Cumin glaze; Meatballs and Home-made Heirloom Tomato Sauce served over local spaghetti; a nicoise- inspired salad and Frozen Tart Cherry (North Star Organics) Margaritas. For an appetizer I made a goat cheese onion dip for potato chips.
So what else do locavores eat in February?
Root vegetables, potatoes and squash stored from summer harvest
Greenhouse greens, kale, chard from the winter farmer’s mkt.
· Canned, frozen veggies from last summer
· Dried mushroom and herbs
· A bushel of local fall apples stored in the basement
· Frozen, canned or dehydrated berries and fruits
· Frozen or canned juice from backyard orchard, grapevines, or farmer’s market
· Local honey and maple syrup
· Custom raised grassfed beef, lamb, pork or chicken from the freezer
· Venison or other wild game
· Fish caught from Ice fishing
· Farm fresh eggs
· Hazenuts, chestnuts
Milk yogurt, ice cream, butter and cheese from your own goat, boarded at the May Farm
· Low pasteurized milk and cheese curds from Cream Cup Dairy, Bear Lake
Leelanau Raclette Cheese, Leelanau County
Light of Day Tea
Home brewed Kombucha or Kvass
Local wine, beer, ciders, root beer
It's not as hard you think and you get better at over time.
It's a holistic life style thing...
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