Anahata Food Project

marciasm — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:22:39 +0000

Today was our biggest delivery of food to the pantry ever–450 pounds of fresh food!!!!! Much of it was the sweet corn that one of our new volunteers collected from a farmer at the end of his day for $1/dozen. She got 30 dozen (that’s right 360 ears) of silver queen. Carl did the delivery this week as he nearly always does and in his words, “When we brought in the sweet corn, someone took one look at it and shouted, “Look at that sweet corn, praise the lord!” Sabra [the director of the pantry] was very happy.”

Marcia’s confession: I really did think I would keep up with this blog better than I have. And I’d like to say that I will do better in the future, but I won’t say that. I will try however. Fact is, I like working outside better than I like sitting at a computer. I also would like for people to be able to keep up with everything. The latest email I sent to everyone in the group brought you up to date. Let me know if you didn’t get that, we are up to cool things this month.

And I really would like someone to be our liason at the pantry. We drop off on Tuesday but the food is handed out on Wed. Wouldn’t someone like to be there to talk to the folks and see how we can work together in a better way?

Our first harvests and delivery!

marciasm — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:59:29 +0000

Today, Carl delivered our first produce of the season to the SDA food pantry in Old Town East. They were thrilled to see our gorgeous bags of lettuce, collards and peas and curious about the garlic scapes. Once they got a whiff they were sold and will pass on cooking information to their clients who pick up the food on Wednesday. Garlic Scapes, you ask? See the photo? The scapes are the top shoot of the garlic plant (the curly cue part). If left to their own devices they produce a seed pod. If cut in time, they are a culinary treat, honored by the Chinese and becoming more and more appreciated in this country. Visit your local farmer’s market now if you want to try them for yourself. Simply slice into small pieces and stir fry with other vegetables or tofu (or whatever) for a mild garlic-y addition to any dish.

In the meantime, the garden is bursting with green goodies. With the recent sun followed by all that rain–we had nearly 2 inches out here in the last 2 days–plants are growing in front of our eyes. I took pictures on Sunday, deleted them by mistake and when I took them again this morning the plants were visibly larger–some were doubled in size!

marciasm — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:23:38 +0000

Welcome to this new way of communicating about the Anahata Food Project. We hope that you will find this website to be a more convenient way to keep up with our news at the time that works best for you. If you want to find out about our work schedule and who is leading that session you can go to that page. We are just getting started so please be patient with me while I learn the software. In the meantime, please join us tonight (Thursday, May 27) for a work crew about 6:30 if you like.

I took some great pictures during the past two work sessions and am disappointed to tell you that my camera is broken and the picutures are gone. SO, you’ll just have to come out and see for yourselves. We’ll have our first harvest in a few days–lettuce for sure and maybe some peas!

All blessings to everyone,

Marcia

And thanks to Colleen Leonardi for getting us started and offering continuing support.

Welcome to the Anahata Food Project!

marciasm — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:11:25 +0000

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