Happy Blog Action Day!

In honor of Earth, let me direct you to my local chapter of Slow Food, and one of my favorite local farms, Sanders Ridge Farm.

Through the Slow Food Piedmont Triad chapter, you can help plant muscadine grape vines or spore shiitake mushrooms, then join in a potluck.

Through Sanders Ridge, you can join a CSA and have Cindy Hinshaw deliver crates of her stunning eggs, baby bok choy, lettuces, and on and on. I am not a member of Cindy’s exclusive because I was a) late last year getting on the bandwagon and b) when a partial share opened up after someone moved away, my own little tomato plants were going gangbusters. But I enjoy her fabulously chatty e-mail updates about farm goings on, and more seriously, this year’s wretched drought. I have also come home from the farmers market with her produce, grinning like I just won a million bucks.

Thank you to both for preaching the bounty and the beauty of locally-grown foodstuffs.