Harvesting Beet Greens

Buying locally is just good for the area because it increases local employment (improves taxes and local infrastructure), reduces the chance of contamination (inherent in long distance transportation), allows local farmers to produce diverse crops (which improves their income and their soil) and the food tastes better.

Independent butcher shops, in this area of a half million people, are usually found in rural areas, not in the shopping hubs. The tricks that are played with meat can make you sick. Vacuum bags of pork ribs are injected with ozone to make the meat look fresh. Aged hams are cosmetically treated and re-offered as picnic hams. Nitrates are used to make meat look fresh. According to Michael Pollan, animals finished with grain are bad for you (omega-6/omega-3), where as the grass feed version of the same meat is health neutral to beneficial.

Then you can wash it all down with a Texas Hill Country wine,

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. You live in the Hill country, if I remember correctly.

Ever since I discovered Schultz's Weingarten in Austin and Fredricksburg on the Internet, I've wanted to visit. Speaking of which, no good butchers in Fredricksburg or New (Neu) Braunfels? Das ist ganz traurig.

Oh, and the people who already have the message could do us all some good, if they could whoop the message up a little.

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Billy
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Big whoops here. Make that Shultz's Biergarten. (Shultz is spelled differently too). Anyway, rec.garden.edible, rec.garten.bier, everything is good.

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Billy

You know Billy, I'm on your side but only one of those statements is fact. All of the others are geo/demo relative or just plain inaccurate.

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Steve

OK. I already covered local buying which doubles the value of the purchase to the local economy (New Economics Foundation,"Local Food Better for Rural Economy than Supermarket Shopping" [press release], London, UK. 7 August 2001).

Walter Goldschmdt's 1947 book "As You Sow: Three Studies in the Social Consequences of Agribusiness" as summarized in Peter Barnes (ed.)The People's Land: A reader on Land reform in the United States, Rodale Press, 1975. Refers to increased economic viability in farm towns where farm sizes are smaller and cater to local buyers, which has an amplifying effect of increased goods and services being sold and the ameliorating influence that it has on local infrastructure.

I can't find the quote that I want for long distance food contamination so let me substitute "Is Your Food Contaminated?", Mark Frischetti, Scientific American, September, 2007.

Using crop rotation requires fewer inputs (less petroleum products), which will improve the land. It allows greater diversity, which offers its' own protection to the farmer because he is not dependent (make or break) on one crop. If the farmer can do his/her own sales or distribution, they receive more than the 7 cents on the dollar that the monoculture farmers get.

And lastly, it must be obvious that fresher food tastes better.

I gave up with the footnotes because it's time for my beauty nap.

I await you response as to where I jumped the tracks.

Reply to
Billy

Billy expounded:

Many of us do, but not to the point of being adversarial or obnoxious. It doesn't do a cause any good if you turn off your audience ;->

Reply to
Ann

Ann, you don't have to pick a fight. You already have.

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Billy

Billy expounded:

I've never picked a fight with you, Billy, but you can't say the same. The sad thing is we're on the same page on so many things, but you just can't let anything go.

Reply to
Ann

I have. You.

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Billy

Billy expounded:

Yea, right.

Reply to
Ann

you guys are "beeting" a dead horse.

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doofy

doofy expounded:

How right you are! On the other hand, I picked a nice bunch of beets this morning to share with a friend. Golden, Chioggia, Red Ace and Forono. Yum!

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Ann

Sorry y'all...I like ya both, but I'm with doofy on this one...

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rachael simpson

Indeed. :-) Mom and I travelled the winery trails a couple of times. I recommend Cana Cellars.

I said IN TOWN! :-) There is Granzin's in New Braunfels that I have yet to try, but have been encouraged to do so by more than one source.

My preference is to purchase 1/2 of a local range fed cow when I have the money and the space.

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Omelet

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