My Griping Has Paid Off

Ok, well...probably not my griping. But the griping of a nation over the lack of local produce has resulted in an explosion of farmers' markets over the last few years. and the big news is...

Lehi is starting a farmers' market!!!


Visit their website here for more info. I'll see you there!

Hiking with Nie Nie

For anyone one in the world who doesn't know who Nie Nie is, check out her blog here. And be prepared to cry. Go back to August 08 to read about her amazing story. She was in a plane crash with her husband and a pilot a year ago and suffered severe burns. her goal was to hike the Y this weekend on the one year anniversary of the accident. She invited blog readers to join her, so we went! Here are some photos



Katie, Callie, Helen, Annette, Jennica

Stephanie and her husband held hands the whole way up. I don't have any great close-ups because I felt a little intrusive taking pictures of them. But here you can see she and her husband in the blue and white with a bunch of us following behind.

Jennica shared her trail mix with half the mountain. She's always the perfect hostess.

Jennica and Callie

Helen and Katie

It was an amazing experience. I hadn't read all of her blog, but I've been reading and crying every night for a week. She inspires me and reminds me what life is truly about.

Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.

I'm not going to force my beliefs on anybody, but I think our food society is horrible. And I'm still a part of that horror at this point in time, hoping to change. In an effort to support the Slow Food movement I've been trying to buy local produce. The problem is, I live at an inconvenient distance from the great downtown SLC Farmer's market and the great Orem and Lindon fruit orchards. However...Thanksgiving Point (literally my backyard) has been doing a Farmer's Market for a couple years. I went last year and was severely disappointed. No Produce. Then a friend told me she went this year and it's much better. So I headed over last night and found out that it's growing! There are definitely some farmers there with locally grown produce. Excellent.

Here's my main complaint: It's on a Friday...from 3-7pm. Why?I work full time and don't get home till 6:30 generally. Thanksgiving Point is notorious for odd hours. So maybe if enough of us go and make a suggestion that it be move to Saturday they'll listen. Maybe not. Worth a shot.

Anyway, I'm not a vegetarian and I'm not into organic foods, to a point. The FDA has some fairly easy guidelines by which one can be labeled organic, and that doesn't mean your food isn't still grown or caged in a large agri-business that only produces one thing... 3,000 miles away. Instead, I believe in eating things that are grown or produced locally, with few ingredients, that I can prepare myself. Especially in my own garden. Amen!

You'll be convinced too: Read The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food, both by Michael Pollan

Please forgive me for my rant and my plugs. I'll be looking for easy local options to help me live this lifestyle and I'll post them on the blog for anyone who's interested.

Three Things

So, I'm very excited about several books that have been made into movies recently. Here are three of them:

1. Where the Wild Things Are. Comes out in theaters this Fall. I can't decide if the movie really looks good, or if I'm just excited about the Arcade Fire Song the preview is set to. Check it out

here.

2. Alice in Wonderland. I've always had a strange obsession with this story. When I was younger I would have dreams that I was Alice trying to fit through a tiny door and on the other side was Disneyland... interpret THAT Freud. Anyway, Tim Burton is always good in my book, so let's hope this one goes well. Check it out here.

3. You must read this book. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan changed the way I think about the food I put in my body. It's life changing. Food Inc. is a movie about the industrialization of food in our society, etc. Check out a preview here. I have MUCH more to say about this subject, but that will be at a later date.

Black Mirror

I'm a huge Arcade Fire Fan. Check out this creepy dark music video for their single Black Mirror. You can control elements of the song by pushing certain numbers and change the image to a negative.

http://www.rorrimkcalb.com/

Their wesite is also amazing:

http://www.arcadefire.com/yope.html