The Home Grown Food Challenge is a pledge to eat only home grown or local food for the month of October.

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posted 7 months ago / 1 note / reblog

It’s the final day of the Home Grown Food Challenge, and boy, what a great and enduring month it’s been. Tonight, I’ll be taking Olive for her first trick-or-treating adventure. Hopefully she will be willing to share some of her candy with me after midnight.

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As I enter the final week of the Home Grown Food Challenge it helps to remind myself of the bigger picture. Sure, the challenge is a great way to celebrate the harvest time, but it is also a calculated way to force myself to experience what it’s like to live off of just the food I’m able to grow as well as explore the great local food sources that exist.
That being said, I’m looking for some more meal inspiration. Please challenge me with a meal I can make and I’ll do it for you! Build a Meal

posted 8 months ago / 0 notes / reblog

Thanks to Melanie for submitting this Home Grown Food Challenge recipe. This suggested combination of ingredients was surely a challenge…Jalapeno, Jerusalem Artichoke, Pumpkin, Chili Pepper and Golden Globe Turnip, doesn’t get more interesting than that. Luckily, when it comes to pizza there really isn’t much I wouldn’t try on it. Please take a second and Build a Meal for me.

posted 8 months ago / 1 note / reblog

12 days down, 19 to go!
If you haven’t pledged yet, there’s still time to take the local challenge for 1 week or 1 day.
Home Grown Food Challenge

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Spaghetti Squash Stir Fry Recipe
Thanks to Lindsay for submitting this Home Grown Food Challenge recipe. Up until this point, I had only made spaghetti squash with tomato sauce, which I had grown tired of. This was a very refreshing way to use this winter squash along with other fresh veggies from my garden.
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be making more user-submitted recipes. If you would like to contribute please do so here.

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What does your pantry look like?

An impressive stocked up pantry from NWEdible

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Hello friends on Twitter…
Will you support the home grown and local food movements by lending a tweet?
Find out just what we mean: Thunderclap.it

posted 8 months ago / 2 notes / reblog

Making homemade sauerkraut is an easy and delicious way to preserve those cabbage heads before the frost hits. In this recipe, we use a white head of cabbage, Egyptian onions, caraway seeds and sea salt.
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5 days down, 26 to go…

I’m eating only food from my garden for the whole month and I’d like you to get involved. Here’s how:

Facebook App – Pledge To Take the Challenge

We’ve made this easy for you. Not only can you pledge to take the challenge for as little as 1 day, but you can also pledge to eat only locally grown food in place of home grown.

Napkin Labs Brainstorm Application – Build Me a Meal

Inspired by the show, Chopped, we’re calling on supporters to help me build a meal by choosing ingredients from my Master list. I’ll be choosing a number of submissions to make and participants are able to win prizes!

Thunderclap.it – Spread the Word

This platform is a newer tool that allows you to amplify your tweet by getting backed by a target number of supporters. This model is similar to kickstarter, but in place of a monetary donation, a support needs to dedicate a tweet. C’mon, who doesn’t want to do that!