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Eating Consciously Podcast: Shane Bellinger interviews Jacqui Edans of Rooster Head Farms
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Eating Consciously Podcast: Shane Bellinger interviews Jacqui Edans of Rooster Head Farms

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Eating Consciously Podcast: Shane Bellinger interviews Jacqui Edans of Rooster Head Farms

Welcome to our third podcast in the Eating Consciously series. In this episode, Shane Bellinger, owner of Green Go Cleaning and member of the Eating Consciously team interviews Jacqui Edans of Rooster Head Farms in Brevard, NC. Our last episode was focused on systemic racism which included a conversation on factory meat operations. This episode shows another side of the meat industry on a different scale. Eating Consciously focuses on the impact our food choices have on others. This episode continues to educate towards that goal. Thanks for being here. We hope you enjoy the show. Many thanks to Shane and Jacqui for sharing this conversation with us. Farmer Jacqui Shane with her family

By Kim Coram|2020-09-22T11:59:05-04:00September 10th, 2020|Categories: Compost Drop-off Location, Composting, Connecting with nature, Eating Consciously, Food, Growing food, Help a Neighbor, Podcast, Shane Bellinger|

We need more community food scrap drop-off sites. Interested? We will help
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We need more community food scrap drop-off sites. Interested? We will help

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We need more community food scrap drop-off sites. Interested? We will help

Growing food usually requires soil. Nutrients in the soil get used up when we grow food and luckily for us, an easy way to rebuild the soil is through making compost. We have taken on a new community project with a few other groups that involves giving plant starts to those who are in need of food. We usually have enough pots, plant starts, and volunteers but we usually need more soil. We currently have 2 publicized community compost drop off places in our community and we could use a few more. If you are interested in helping us build more soil please let us know. Do you currently compost at home but have no use for the soil? Let us know! We could sure use it. Would you collect your food scraps for use if someone would pick them up and take them to a drop-off location? Let us know that too. Send an email to [email protected] and let's talk dirt :)

By Kim Coram|2020-08-30T14:58:51-04:00August 30th, 2020|Categories: Compost Drop-off Location, Composting, Eating Consciously, Food, Growing food, Help a Neighbor, Moving to Zero-waste, Use Food Scraps|

Eating Consciously, Eating Seasonally, Eating Locally
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Eating Consciously, Eating Seasonally, Eating Locally

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Eating Consciously, Eating Seasonally, Eating Locally

Another favorite of the nightshade family is the pepper: there are hundreds of kinds, ranging from super sweet to hellishly hot. I’ll focus on the sweet. Many do not like green bell peppers and for good reason: they are green, are not ripe and can be bitter. One can find in the grocery stores ripe bell peppers that are red, yellow and orange but chances are these took an international trip before getting to the store. Like tomatoes, peppers of all kinds are planted in the late spring once the soil and ambient temperature are warm. It takes about 2 months for a pepper to become green and ‘ripe’ enough to eat. To get to the full ripe state of red, orange or yellow takes another month. The fruit are heavy and require some effort to support so farmers are often ready to pick green and sell. So what does one do if one wants a pepper with color and sweetness? Plant Lunchbox Peppers! Not only are the [...]

By Noel Thurner|2020-08-24T10:57:06-04:00August 24th, 2020|Categories: Eating Consciously, Food, Growing food, Noel Thurner, Recipe|

Eating Consciously Podcast: Systemic racism and how I participate
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Eating Consciously Podcast: Systemic racism and how I participate

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Eating Consciously Podcast: Systemic racism and how I participate

John and I have decided we need to learn how we support systemic racism. We decided to start by looking at our food choices and that led us to ask a team of individuals in our community if they would help us learn about the impact of our food choices have on others. We also asked if they could guide us based on their expertise. Thus started the project Eating Consciously. We decided to start a podcast with the project as a way to bring people closer together in our socially-distanced world. This is the second episode of the podcast and it goes over an hour. I interviewed Naeema Muhummad of the NC Environmental Justice Network. It was a tough interview to do. The stories she tells, and there are many, are hard to hear. Every part of the interview touched me and it made it difficult to cut out parts of the conversation. It is well worth a listen, in my humble opinion. Naeema invited us [...]

By Kim Coram|2020-09-10T15:41:32-04:00August 21st, 2020|Categories: Connecting with nature, Eating Consciously, Essential workers, Food, Growing food, Help a Neighbor, Podcast|

Davidson River School garden work day was inspiring
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Davidson River School garden work day was inspiring

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Davidson River School garden work day was inspiring

On Thursday, July 30th, a group of dedicated volunteers showed up to work after a downpour. It didn't rain a drop after we got started. Barbara Grimm, the principle of Davidson River School had a lot of projects ready for us to tackle. A new compost facility Thanks to a pallet donation from Sylvan Sport, we were able to create a compost facility at the school so students can turn their food scraps into dirt. Gabriel Covington, a student from Brevard College, helped us put the facility together. It is so great to spend time with Gabriel. He is always anxious to be part of a community project and he brings the energy of his youth. Thanks Gabriel for your help! Kathleen Hannigan, a local artist, helped us add a community art piece the facility, just as we did at Rise and Shine. Kathleen set up a table and got busy sawing wood planks for use in the compost tree we [...]

By Kim Coram|2020-08-10T10:46:27-04:00August 10th, 2020|Categories: Compost Drop-off Location, Composting, Eating Consciously, Gatherings, Growing food, Help a Neighbor, Moving to Zero-waste, Use Food Scraps|

Potting plants for the Hunger Coalition giveaway on August 23rd
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Potting plants for the Hunger Coalition giveaway on August 23rd

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Potting plants for the Hunger Coalition giveaway on August 23rd

This past spring, we worked with other community partners to prepare and give away plant starts at the Hunger Coalition's food distribution. The project was a great success and patrons at the distribution have continued to ask for plants. One person shared photos of her plants and they were stunning! Thanks, Shane for passing these on. Shane is on the Hunger Coalition's board and a member of our project, Eating Consciously. Because a large part of Moving to Conservers' work focuses on eliminating the thought that anything is disposable, we have updated our tag that goes with the plants asking for the return of pots and unused soil from the previous distribution. Thanks to John Lawson for creating and updating the tag for us! Reuse helps in so many ways. One of our greatest needs for continuing the plant give-away is high-quality soil Composting creates soil and soil is one of the things we need the most in order to support this [...]

By Kim Coram|2020-08-17T16:24:58-04:00August 10th, 2020|Categories: Compost Drop-off Location, Composting, Eating Consciously, Gatherings, Growing food, Help a Neighbor, Moving to Zero-waste, Shane Bellinger, Use Food Scraps|

Consumer Alert: Watch out for unsolicited seeds
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Consumer Alert: Watch out for unsolicited seeds

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Consumer Alert: Watch out for unsolicited seeds

Elizabeth Pell sent this our way and we wanted to share. Matter of fact, several folks sent this after Elizabeth shared it. CONSUMER ALERT Watch Out for Unsolicited Shipments Tuesday, July 28, 2020 Our office has learned that some North Carolina residents have received seed packets from China or other foreign sources that they did not order in the mail. The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services said the shipping of these seeds is likely the product of an international internet scam known as “brushing.” According to the Better Business Bureau, third-party sellers use your address and Amazon information to generate a fake sale and positive review to boost their product ratings. People who have received these seeds are advised not to plant them by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services(NCDA&CS). This type of international shipment of plant material is against the law. Our office is working hard to protect consumers, but the best way to protect yourself is to follow these tips: NCDA&CS asks anyone who [...]

By Kim Coram|2020-08-10T11:00:31-04:00August 10th, 2020|Categories: Growing food|

WLOS TV news shares a story about Roosterhead feeding the community.
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WLOS TV news shares a story about Roosterhead feeding the community.

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WLOS TV news shares a story about Roosterhead feeding the community.

Roosterhead is receiving some well-deserved recognition for their work feeding the community. You can see a story about them at WLOS by going here: https://wlos.com/news/person-of-the-week/farm-offers-free-meals-to-families-during-pandemic-staying-true-to-roots Thanks Roosterhead for all you do!

By Kim Coram|2020-08-09T15:06:56-04:00August 9th, 2020|Categories: Eating Consciously, Growing food, Help a Neighbor|

Eating Consciously, Eating Seasonally, Eating Locally
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Eating Consciously, Eating Seasonally, Eating Locally

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Eating Consciously, Eating Seasonally, Eating Locally

Barbara Kingsolver wrote in her book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Most of the fruits and vegetables needed a passport to get to your plate. Yikes… we can do better than that! It is my intent with this series of articles to not only guide you for eating seasonally but to try your best to get local or regionally grown plant foods. And do this recipe free! I have nothing against recipes but one does need to learn how to be innovative and serendipitous when cooking out of the garden or what is staring at you from the fridge or purchased at the farmers market. This is a great time of year to begin exploring your options at local farmers’ markets, farm stands and businesses which support this philosophy. We shall begin with a family called cucurbits. In that vast group we at this time of year in our climate are enjoying all sorts of summer squash, zucchini and cucumbers along with cantaloupe and watermelon. Once frost arrives in the [...]

By Noel Thurner|2020-08-12T12:09:44-04:00July 27th, 2020|Categories: Eating Consciously, Growing food, Noel Thurner|

Maureen needs help at the Blue Zone Project Kick-Off
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Maureen needs help at the Blue Zone Project Kick-Off

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Maureen needs help at the Blue Zone Project Kick-Off

Maureen sent this request for help and we wanted to pass it along. Blue Zone project is having their big kick-off event on Aug 22nd from 10 to 1. They are going to be having a series of booths in their parking lot where they are giving out info etc. Sort of a small Farmers Market...same social distancing precautions etc. I have volunteered to man the garden booth where they will be giving out seeds for fall planting... kale, spinach, arugula and I think they are getting some plant starts from Gaia to also give away (kale, chard, collards, broccoli, cabbage). I'm wondering if there is anyone from the Conservers who would like to come and help man the booth with me? Can you put out the word and see if anyone feels comfortable doing this. We will have spacing between booths, masks required, hand sanitizer. Thanks Maureen If you are interested in helping, please let Maureen know by emailing her at [email protected] Thanks!

By Kim Coram|2020-07-24T16:50:28-04:00July 24th, 2020|Categories: Eating Consciously, Gatherings, Growing food, Help a Neighbor|