Category Archives: On the Farm

Storing Harvest Bounty: Canning vs. Dehydrating

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Corinna

Last winter I received Mary Bell’s Food Drying with an Attitude: A Fun and Fabulous Guide to Creating Snacks, Meals, and Crafts – and I put it aside because I did not have a dehydrator. Like last year, I started … Continue reading →

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Communities Dig In To Reconnect: Teaching Through Farming

Posted on September 21, 2011 by realtimefarms

This post is from one of the 16 interns in the Real Time Farms Food Warrior Summer Internship Program (our Fall 2011 Food Warriors have started and will be blogging  soon!). These interns are collecting data, pictures, and video on the growing practices … Continue reading →

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Backyard Farming and Garden Sharing Initiatives

Posted on September 9, 2011 by realtimefarms

This post is from one of the 16 interns in the Real Time Farms Food Warrior Summer Internship Program (our Fall 2011 Food Warriors will be starting soon!). These interns are collecting data, pictures, and video on the growing practices of our … Continue reading →

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Composting: From Fork to Farm

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Corinna

I wrote a series titled Farm to Fork detailing my visits to Ann Arbor, MI farms and could not resist the pun reversal. My grandparents on their farm taught me to take the byproducts of cooking and feed them back … Continue reading →

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Comparison Shopping: The costs of making your own organic jam

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Corinna

Here is a link to the spreadsheet I made comparing the costs of these organic berry jam options. As the shelves in the basement fill with organic blackberry jam and organic blueberry jam – both picked by yours truly and my family … Continue reading →

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Reflections on the One Year Anniversary of the Egg Recall

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Corinna

A year ago this month, there was a national egg recall. You would think more communities would be welcoming the chicken to backyards as a result. Unfortunately, that does not seem to be the case – many cities are still … Continue reading →

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Pesticide Science

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Corinna

I recently took Oprah’s Test Your Food IQ online quiz. It is five questions about food choices, food miles, pesticides, and antibiotics in animals. Such quizzes remind me of a constant choices I make as a food consumer when I … Continue reading →

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Sprouts: a Whole New World

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Corinna

If you google “sprouts enzymes” you receive nearly 2.5 million hits that talk about the rich world of the sprout. If you visit or live in the raw food, juicing, cleansing, detoxifying world of nutrition you will quickly be told … Continue reading →

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Earthworks Urban Farm

Posted on July 11, 2011 by realtimefarms

Take a few minutes to watch this compelling short documentary about the Detroit-based Earthworks Urban Farm by University of Michigan students Benjamin Antonio and Salam Rida.

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Oh say can you CSA!

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Corinna

At a recent dinner of my parents’ friends, no one at the table knew what a CSA was, and I, still addressing the “adults” as “Mr & Mrs,” attempted to enlighten them. “CSAs are shorthand for Community Supported Agriculture. You … Continue reading →

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