TROUTS LATEST PHOTOS April, 2008 – Issue #83 SLOW FOOD BEATS FAST FOOD ANY DAY Camille trims salad turnips on the first day of the month. On the table are bok choy, scallions, turnips, carrots and sweet peppers she and Bob will use to cook Friday Local Lunch for twenty five people. All of this […]
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SLOW FOOD – It’s not just food; it’s a way of life There is nothing new about Slow Food. It’s how our grandparents ate. The modern day Slow Food movement began in 1986 as a reaction to the first McDonald s opening in Rome. Supporters of the movement see slow food as a way to
CONTINUING EDUCATION Tuesday Night Fuel Making Fueling Around at the Coop – A good way to get some hands on biodiesel making experience. April 1, 2008 All 500+ Coop Members have an open invite to come make biodiesel on Tuesday nights. Caleb deals carefully with the Methanol catalyst. David listens to a story. WVO
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TROUTS LATEST PHOTOS March, 2008 – Issue #82 RUNNING MYCELIUM Rob and Bob team up for mushroom clinic on March 3rd. PREPARING FOR SUMMER Bob has been laying in supplies and putting in hours of hard work so we can have a garden this year. More on both projects on Spring Planting at Camelina. GOLDEN
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PLAYING BY THE CREEK Warmer weather inspired a group of us to hike down to the creek and wade on in. – March 22, 2008 BUT FIRST, SOME STREET SOCCER We walked to the end of the street to wait for Dana and Adah, Rob, Jack and Link took the opportunity to play some
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SPRING PLANTING AT CAMELINA – THE MAKING OF A MUSHROOM PATCH AND A GARDEN In which Bob and Rob seed oak logs and cardboard with with shitake and oyster mushroom spawn and Bob turns an old IBC into two raised garden beds. TEAM SHITAKE Rob and Bob at their work station March 3rd. DRILLING AND
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TROUTS LATEST PHOTOS February, 2008 – Issue #81 ENOUGH SUNNY DAYS TO SATISFY As we all know, the groundhog saw his shadow again this year. Fortunately, the North Carolina winter has been mild with streaks of temperatures in the 60’s. Camille took advantage of warmer weather to apply coats of plaster to the straw bale
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PERFECTING THE TEMPEH-MAKING PROCESS January, 2008 A VENDOR, A MILL, AND A POT We are now able to make much bigger batches of Tempeh. We now buy our organic soybeans 25 pounds at a time from Chatham Marketplace. We have also added some new equipment. The mill de-hulls the dried soybeans by cracking them and
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TROUTS LATEST PHOTOS January, 2008 – Issue #80 Chilling out at home, walking to work and playing with the ponies. A BUSY WINTER KITCHEN Camille rolls tofu cubes in nutritional yeast to make our latest rave dish, Kentucky Fried Tofu. Bob bags his first six pound batch of Tempeh. He’s been adding equipment and perfecting
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PIEDMONT BIOFUELS’ VERMICULTURE PROJECT January 18, 2008 AMANDA FEEDS 50 POUNDS OF WORMS ON A BRIGHT WINTER DAY First, she takes these food scraps from the Chatham Marketplace and grinds them up. Sometimes the food gets stuck and Amanda has to take a two by four to the hopper. This reminded us of
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