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rkti went to a community supported agriculutre (CSA) conference yesterday....
it was good, but i left a bit underwhelmed.
i'd hoped to get some quick and easy recipes. i got a few pages of tips, but no concrete recipies. (i'm trying to motivate myself to get a farm share, but i can't be trusted with using up *that* many vegetables. especially in the drolls of summer. someday, i'll get over myself and actually be more proactive on the self-care front, this past winter i'd give myself a curved 80/85 on doing so.... but we'll see what july brings. right now, i'm debating between a share that's a mile from my house and not very transit friendly and one that's a mile from my current job (and next door to my old one) that is transit friendly. they both pick up at the same time, after work, and the second one allows pick up the next day.
but i want the brooklyn share because i want to encourage brooklyn love. the job one has been around for awhile, and while smack in the middle of affluence, the pick up site is in an SRO (single room occupancy) building. had i not waited so long, i could have gotten one closer to my house and been done with it. bah.
so, yes, i'm trying to find someone to share with me. i reached out to a former coworker who somewhat lives near me in brooklyn and works near the manhattan pick up site. she's vegetarian and tries to be eco-friendly, but... she's not yet sold. i may just make a CL post. but CL folk can be hit or miss in terms of flakeyness.
i hate making decisions)
so, the conference..... there was a least one workshop on how to get Them, poor/underserved populations, involved. but basing on when the subject came up as a sub-topic, i'm worried about the "othering" that is freqently so rampant when liberal white folks of privilege converge. the way to including is not by drawing lines. acting paternalistically helps nobody. i was wandering the display tables during the wine and cheese fest when i learned of the depths of the fruit cart dramas. i don't know. i think i'm always wanting more.
at the conference, they had soft paper plates and corn-based utensils and cups, which are biodegradable but rely on massive corn (over)production, and no separate garbage cans for any of it. apparently, supposedly, they were going to go through later and separate.
i hope they did.
the food tasted awfully like whole foods food. which is great and all, but not exactly note-worthy.
the entire day, nobody mentioned the earth hour. i had the tv on flipping through channels last night and that was the first i heard of it, and later when i went to play with the google they were promoting. i am confused.
but, still, if i can go to barnard's feminism conference for 5 years in a row, missing this year because i'm a space cadet, knowing my head is guaranteed to hit the desk at least once, i'm sure i'll go to back to the csa conference next year. barnard's conference last year on the prison industsry was the best of the five. the csa conference folks said this year was better than last. improvement is a good thing.
and i did pick up two new blogs to put on the occasional perusal list. folks attempting to pull off locavore experiments. 'no impact man' and leda meredith. so it couldn't have been all that bad.
p.s. i also won a farm aid 2006 t-shirt, 2xl kids size. it's very much done up guns & roses style. i am amused.
p.p.s. my phone has decided to be wonky and the ear speaker is not working. to talk on it, i have to use speaker phone. currently, i'm am potentially scheduled to be in the field all day on monday. i think this is a sign from someone i should give up on celling.
it was good, but i left a bit underwhelmed.
i'd hoped to get some quick and easy recipes. i got a few pages of tips, but no concrete recipies. (i'm trying to motivate myself to get a farm share, but i can't be trusted with using up *that* many vegetables. especially in the drolls of summer. someday, i'll get over myself and actually be more proactive on the self-care front, this past winter i'd give myself a curved 80/85 on doing so.... but we'll see what july brings. right now, i'm debating between a share that's a mile from my house and not very transit friendly and one that's a mile from my current job (and next door to my old one) that is transit friendly. they both pick up at the same time, after work, and the second one allows pick up the next day.
but i want the brooklyn share because i want to encourage brooklyn love. the job one has been around for awhile, and while smack in the middle of affluence, the pick up site is in an SRO (single room occupancy) building. had i not waited so long, i could have gotten one closer to my house and been done with it. bah.
so, yes, i'm trying to find someone to share with me. i reached out to a former coworker who somewhat lives near me in brooklyn and works near the manhattan pick up site. she's vegetarian and tries to be eco-friendly, but... she's not yet sold. i may just make a CL post. but CL folk can be hit or miss in terms of flakeyness.
i hate making decisions)
so, the conference..... there was a least one workshop on how to get Them, poor/underserved populations, involved. but basing on when the subject came up as a sub-topic, i'm worried about the "othering" that is freqently so rampant when liberal white folks of privilege converge. the way to including is not by drawing lines. acting paternalistically helps nobody. i was wandering the display tables during the wine and cheese fest when i learned of the depths of the fruit cart dramas. i don't know. i think i'm always wanting more.
at the conference, they had soft paper plates and corn-based utensils and cups, which are biodegradable but rely on massive corn (over)production, and no separate garbage cans for any of it. apparently, supposedly, they were going to go through later and separate.
i hope they did.
the food tasted awfully like whole foods food. which is great and all, but not exactly note-worthy.
the entire day, nobody mentioned the earth hour. i had the tv on flipping through channels last night and that was the first i heard of it, and later when i went to play with the google they were promoting. i am confused.
but, still, if i can go to barnard's feminism conference for 5 years in a row, missing this year because i'm a space cadet, knowing my head is guaranteed to hit the desk at least once, i'm sure i'll go to back to the csa conference next year. barnard's conference last year on the prison industsry was the best of the five. the csa conference folks said this year was better than last. improvement is a good thing.
and i did pick up two new blogs to put on the occasional perusal list. folks attempting to pull off locavore experiments. 'no impact man' and leda meredith. so it couldn't have been all that bad.
p.s. i also won a farm aid 2006 t-shirt, 2xl kids size. it's very much done up guns & roses style. i am amused.
p.p.s. my phone has decided to be wonky and the ear speaker is not working. to talk on it, i have to use speaker phone. currently, i'm am potentially scheduled to be in the field all day on monday. i think this is a sign from someone i should give up on celling.
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Date: 2008-03-31 03:55 pm (UTC)Also, I have to say, I would never be able to hack a full CSA by myself. Even a half-share would be a challenge, though a doable one.
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Date: 2008-04-03 02:15 pm (UTC)i ended up finding one to share the near-house one.
vegetables are my friends. i historically prefer frozen because i'm such a moody eater and veggies don't wait for moods.