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Eating Consciously – as we eat at home more our food scraps increase. Your scraps can help us feed our neighbors GalleryEating Consciously – as we eat at home more our food scraps increase. Your scraps can help us feed our neighbors
Composting, Eating Consciously, Growing food, Help a Neighbor, Moving to Zero-waste, Use Food Scraps
Eating Consciously – as we eat at home more our food scraps increase. Your scraps can help us feed our neighbors
For years, Moving to Conservers has worked to change what we define as waste and trash, especially when it comes to food. Reducing food waste is considered one of the number one things we can do to increase the health of our environment. Diverting food scraps to farms helps them feed our local community. For some articles on the topic and ways you can use or let others use your food scraps go here: https://movingtoconservers.com/category/composting/
ShareWaste – an app to help us put our community food scraps to use
John and I joined ShareWaste a couple of years ago but there were few if any others in the area signed up. I honestly had forgotten about it. A few weeks ago, we were contacted by someone in Mills River looking for a home for her food scraps. She had found us on ShareWaste. We met in the Walmart parking lot in Brevard and we received a 5-gallon bucket of much-needed scraps for our compost system. We never have enough scraps to produce the amount of compost we need for our garden. Now we have a new stream and are [...]
Plant give away through the Hunger Coalition response was extremely enthusiastic!
As mentioned in the last newsletter, members of Moving to Conservers gathered recently to pot plant starts donated by Gaia Herbs and the Transylvania Master Gardeners. This past Thursday we had the pleasure of giving out the plants at the Hunger Coalition’s weekly food distribution. Plants ready for delivery After receiving their food boxes, each driver was asked if they would like some plant starts so they could begin growing their own food. The response was extremely enthusiastic! Everyone was delighted to receive a choice of tomatoes, squash, zucchini, peppers, swiss chard, and/or herbs. In many cases, the [...]
MASKS available!
Thanks to our Gail, I found cloth masks in Brevard: The Sew Shop, across from Food Matters, has them with ear loops and pockets to put old but cleaned N95s, coffee filters or dust filter masks from your garden shed. $10. See photo. Gravy, on Main Street, has tie-ons that avoid ear abrasion but the masks have no pockets. $8.95, benefit to C. Platt Girls and Boys Club. https://www.facebook.com/groups/WeAreBrevardNC/permalink/2946669858749431/ takes you direct to local mask makers. Some of them list attributes of their masks. Some donate to local charities. Cotton cloth masks HELP keep your germs to yourself, others’ germs [...]
Compost Happens
Written by John Wiseman If you are wanting to grow wholesome food, beautiful pollinators, or trees and shrubs, they all need nourishment that in turn will nourish our bodies and souls. Lets think a bit longer term and start composting. It’s easy! We all have the ingredients around our abodes. They are: carbon, nitrogen, air, and water. Compost is a keystone building block to vital soil. Let’s just try getting the ingredients in good proportions and let the composting critters do 90% of the labor. Oh, the other 10% is up to us. The simplest composting starts with a layered [...]
Honoring my Lebanese heritage: Harvesting grape leaves, remembering grandma and grandpa
My grandpa Coram was born in Lebanon. His family moved to the United States when he was an infant. Grandma’s family moved from Lebanon and settled in Jackson, Ohio, where she was born. Grandma always told people grandpa was born in Camel, West Virginia. When I asked her why she said their courthouse had burned down and all the records were lost. She feared he may be deported someday if folks knew where he was born, even though he was a legal resident. I thought she was being ridiculous. I don’t think that anymore, sadly. Anyone who knew them assumed [...]