July 29, 2011  goat cheese with honey, figs and roasted almonds
As I continue to learn more about eating well, it's become
important to me to support local producers of food. Lately I've
been buying raw goat's milk from a local farm along with eggs
and chicken. Buying from an organic farm also means I get whole
food that is minimally processed, free from unnecessary
chemicals and fresher than most of what I might buy at a typical
grocery store. Since we planted a garden this past spring, our
backyard is now also a (very small scale) local producer of
food. The flavor of freshly picked zucchini, green bell peppers,
cantaloupe and herbs is richer, deeper, and wonderfully
fragrant. It's also no small amount of work, and gives me a
small glimpse of just how hard a farmer works to provide food of
quality to the consumer. It's a night and day job where you are
dependent on the soil and weather and have to be diligent to
keep the pests or disease that inevitably appear from consuming
your crop. Having a garden remi