#localvore

Apple picking & cider donuts at Cider Hill Farm in Amesbury, Massachusetts #massachusetts_igers #applepicking #ciderdonuts🍩

Enjoying some pickled chantrelles on my sandwich today. Wild foraged from the woods i live in over the summer!

We gathered lettuce and basil from our kitchen porch boxes to make a salad for dinner last night. It was served along with onions, cranberries and feta cheese and went great with the pizza and wings. @amjones42 #gardenfresh #lettuce #saladgreens #salads #localvore #containergarden #containertoplate #fieldtofork #farm2table #freshfoods

A couple batches of some fermented vegetables in the making. Inside these jars are cucumbers, peas, carrots, dandelion greens, chard, onions, garlic, dill, sea salt and water. Everything was grown right here on the farm. Fermented foods have played a vital role in our survival throughout human history. Many of our ancestors fermented food this way as a means to preserve vegetables for eating during the cold seasons. Fermentation is a miracle, in the right conditions, it can preserve food for years. Flavor is one bonus to this method of storage, but another is the many health benefits and nutritional improvements that come along with it. Our bodies are ecosystems, we may think that these vessels are solely ours, but in truth they are inhabited by trillions of microorganisms, many of which we can't properly function without. From fending off harmful bacteria, to helping our bodies create essential vitamins and even aiding in the production of the neurotransmitter serotonin. Our symbiotic relationship with these invisible lifeforms plays a vital role in our existence, we owe it to ourselves and to them to continue the practice of naturally fermenting our foods, and to avoid chemicals and ingredients that disrupt and kill these delicate ecosystems within us. I highly encourage you to do this yourselves, it's one of the simplest ways to ferment and you can do it with any edible vegetable or mushroom. Simply rinse what you're fermenting, stuff it tightly into a quart jar, add 2.5 tea spoons of sea salt and cover it with water and a lid. Open it up at least once a day to ensure that there are no explosions, and then enjoy within seven days or more.

Ask and ye shall receive! Red Wine Chocolate Cupcakes are LIVE! 🍷🍫❤ Come and try some, because it's never too early for booze!#PistachioBakehouse #chocolate #redwine #cupcake #pastry #ganache #valentine #KansasCity #localvore #foodiegram #FoodieChats #kcmo #PiratesBone #bakery #meringue (at Pirate's Bone)

at least it's locally sourced

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