Good Food is Everybody's Business
Bluebird Grain Farms’ emmer gets two thumbs up from GoodFood World! Emmer is a sweet tasty grain that is high protein and low gluten, which makes it edible for some people who don’t tolerate commercial wheat gluten very well.
At GoodFood World, we’re all about whole or minimally processed food and avoiding all those additives and preservatives that Big Food uses to give “edible food-like substances” their creative aromas, peculiar colors, more-intense-than-real flavors, and months’ long shelf life.
Around 2600 years ago, in a Jerusalem threatened by siege, God told Ezekiel he would have to live on only bread and water for 390 days. Ezekiel’s challenge was to survive on a daily ration of just 8 ounces of bread and a little over 2 ½ cups of water. Is it possible to do that? Can you survive on just bread and water?
Our “National Hymn,” America the Beautiful, opens with the image of endless skies over fields of ripe golden grain that reach to purple mountains on the horizon. Poet Katharine Lee Bates would probably be appalled to realize that she was eulogizing one of the worst examples of mono-cropping in existence – second only to the carpeting of Iowa with corn.
(8/31: Final updates below.) Wild fires and forest fires are rampant across the Northwest, south into California, and east into Montana. When you have friends …
Baking pies – pizza or apple – doesn’t need to be tricky or intimidating! Some flour, some salt, some water, maybe some yeast or fat, and there you go. Start with the best ingredients you can find and you can’t go wrong.
It’s time to be honest; so I’ll lay it all out right here. I’m into my third year of my 5-year plan to learn how to bake good bread, and somewhere around March this year, I lost my baking mojo! Every loaf that came out of the oven fell into two categories: brick or curling stone!
Farming is a high risk business, and when you are raising livestock – beef cattle, sheep, pigs, turkeys, ducks, laying hens and broilers, and rabbits – you are responsible for hundreds of living creatures. And when dozens of fires are burning hundreds of acres of pasture and timberland, that responsibility can be frighteningly heavy.
