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Looking Nearby for Food: 2nd edition

Welcome to the May edition of Looking Nearby for Food, the carnival of local eating.
Inspired by the farmers' markets. Recipes for using what you'll find now at your local markets:

LaLaine in California finds some beautiful basil and tomatoes at her local farmers' market and makes Angel Hair Pomodoro with Garlic Shrimp at thecookmobile.

Chef Erik in New Jersey is using up the last of his winter-season parsnips in Roasted Parsnip Fries posted at Chef Erik.

Nichole in Colorado Springs, CO rediscovers rhubarb with Almost good for you: Rhubarb and Apple Crisp at Bad Human! Don't take chemicals from strangers!

Eating locally without leaving home. Take local eating into your own backyard:

Andrea in Paris, France presents AeroGarden | Fresh Herbs posted at Kitchen Elixir, saying, "Using aeroponics is a great way to grow herbs in your kitchen ready to be used in cooking. There is nothing like having fresh herbs on hand to add flavour to a meal."

Jessica in Montana makes wine from a variety of back yard and garden plants in Homegrown Wine at Practical Nourishment.

Traveling Locavores.
Want to keep eating locally when you're out of town? Here are some suggestions:

Christine in France introduces us to the Open Air Market in Barcelona, Spain at Me, My Kid and Life: An American Single Mom Living in France.

Robert in San Juan Alicante, Spain recommends visitors to the area not miss the local chocolate in Chocolate for Chocoholics in Spain at alicante-spain.

Sheila in Texas tells how to find local produce on the road in Alabama in Good eats in Alabama posted at Perceptive Travel Blog.

Linda talks about finding local food while travelling in Eating Well On Your Budget Vacation posted at The Eclectic Female.

Tips for eating more locally and sustainably.

Lane in Southern California talks about choosing sustainable foods as well as local foods in Vegan Eating Trumps Eating Locally at Vegan Bits.

Lisa in Massachusetts talks about her novice steps in eating more locally in The 100 Mile Diet | Greener Pastures: Personal Finance at Greener Pastures: Personal Finance.

Alison in Colorado discusses eating locally as a part of living locally in Living local: what does it really mean? at Green Me.

Foraging your local ingredients. Venture out into the woods and roadsides for local foods.

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in Cleveland, Ohio talks about the Farmers' Cheese Crepes she made with wild garlic, ramps, and dandelion greens she found on a friend's wooded land in My Friend's Mountain at feeding maybelle.

Melanie in Cheshire, UK, is making Wild Blackberry Leaf Tea from foraged blackberry bramble leaves at Bean Sprouts.

Past posts can be found at: Looking Nearby for Food: A Carnival of Local Eating index page.

Submit your local eating blog article by June 12th to appear in the next edition* of Looking Nearby for Food: A Carnival of Local Eating using our carnival submission form. All submissions should cover some aspect of the topic of eating more locally -- truly seasonal recipes (please submit these as close as possible to the correct season for the main ingredients), your area's unique local ingredients, the current offerings at your local farmers' markets, small farmers and growers in your area, reviews of restaurants in your area that focus on sourcing locally, foraging, growing your own vegetables, canning and preserving the harvest, and many other types of posts are welcome! And if it's not obvious from your blog, make sure to let us know where you are located.

* we hope the next edition will appear as scheduled on June 15th. Cincinnati Locavore is going on walkabout from June 6 - 28, and while we're taking our laptop with us we aren't sure how often we'll have internet access or whether we'll be able to access our email. So if June 15th comes and goes with no blog carnival, be patient! It will appear as soon as possible.

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Looking Nearby For Food: 1st Edition

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Looking Nearby For Food, the blog carnival of local eating!

Jen was lucky enough to be given ten pounds each of blood oranges by a coworker and Meyer lemons by a neighbor (she's in Northern California, so she has lots of local citrus) which she uses to make and can Blood Orange Marmalade with a Hint of Rosemary this month at Modern Beet. She shares some good hints for folks who are first-time marmalade-makers like herself.

Shannon talks about the benefits of joining a CSA (community supported agriculture) program and shares the resources she used to find one near Cincinnati, OH in Eat Local at Around and About.

Chef Erik, the Chef de Cuisine at Grassroots Natural Market in Denville, NJ which specializes in organic and local foods, posted at Chef Erik about the joy he gets from preparing healthy food for customers.

O'rene talks about one of her favorite local fruits, the guava, which is just ending this year's early season in Kids: Try an Exotic Fruit at CEOmum. In Jamaica, the guava has a second season later in the year.

Ellen gets up close and personal with some pastured cows in Real People, Real Food and Close to the Source, her two-part series about Shelburne, MA-based Wheel-View Farm's Scottish Highland and Belted Galloway grass fed beef cattle at Health Freedom Coaching.

Sharon at Casaubon's Book educates her readers about the Chicken Pax, a dangerous disease transmitted through contact with poultry that makes you want to start a flock of your own, as she did on her New York farm.

Jen in Madison, WI suggests some questions you should be asking about how your food is produced in Who Is On Your Team? at Eating In Place.

Linna from Loudon Co, VA discusses the new Victory Gardens in Victory Gardens...Call To Arms at Locavore Chronicles.

Judi over at Giving Gardeners is also talking about gardening, and especially about the relationship between eating locally and eating responsibly in Grow Your Own for National Garden Month. She's joined the Plant a Row for the Hungry campaign and is planning to donate her extra garden produce to a Los Angeles food bank.

Eden at Garden of Eden Farms offers a video of a minutes-old lamb standing for the first time and searching for his first meal in New Lamb, which she filmed on her farm in Northern Kentucky.

Submit your local eating blog article by May 12th for the next edition of Looking Nearby for Food using our carnival submission form. All submissions should cover some aspect of the topic of eating more locally -- truly seasonal recipes (please submit these as close as possible to the correct season for the main ingredients), your area's unique local ingredients, the current offerings at your local farmers' markets, small farmers and growers in your area, reviews of restaurants in your area that focus on sourcing locally, foraging, growing your own vegetables, canning and preserving the harvest, and many other types of posts are welcome! And if it's not obvious from your blog, make sure to let us know where you are located.

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Looking Nearby for Food Blog Carnival

Announcing the Looking Nearby for Food Blog Carnival!

A blog carnival is similar to a magazine in that it is dedicated to a particular topic and published on a regular schedule. Each edition is in the form of a blog post that contains permalinks links to other blog articles on the particular topic -- sort of a digest, if you will, of the best recent posts on that topic by a variety of bloggers.

Looking Nearby for Food will be published monthly and cover topics near and dear to the hearts of local eaters -- seasonal recipes, cooking from scratch, farmers' markets, putting food by, or any other topic closely related to eating locally. If you have a blog and have a post on one of these topics that you are particularly proud of, please submit it to me here for consideration. Or just email me a link -- there's an email link in my profile. Here are some tips on what makes a great blog carnival submission. Each month I'll collect the submissions and choose several for inclusion in Looking Nearby for Food. The carnival will appear each month here on cincinnatilocavore as one of our regular posts.

For bloggers, submitting your best blog posts to appropriate blog carnivals is a great way to attract new readers to your blog. From ProBlogger:

If I had to pick one tip to give new and aspiring bloggers, it would be this: participate in blog carnivals.

For readers interested in a particular subject, blog carnivals provide a vetted digest of the best recent posts on that topic and an introduction to some great blogs.

The first edition will appear May 1st. We'll accept submissions until April 24th; submissions after that date will be considered for the next edition.

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Looking Nearby for Food Blog Carnival

Announcing the Looking Nearby for Food Blog Carnival!

A blog carnival is an online magazine dedicated to a particular topic and published on a regular schedule. Each edition is in the form of a blog post containing permalinks to other blog articles on the particular topic and providing a digest of the best recent posts on that topic by a variety of bloggers.

Looking Nearby for Food will be published monthly and cover topics near and dear to the hearts of local eaters -- seasonal recipes, cooking from scratch, farmers' markets, putting food by, or any other topic closely related to eating locally. If you have a blog and have a post on one of these topics that you are particularly proud of, please submit it to me here for consideration. Or just email me a link -- there's an email link in my profile. Here are some tips on what makes a great blog carnival submission. The carnival will appear each month here on cincinnatilocavore as one of our regular posts.

For bloggers, submitting your best blog posts to appropriate blog carnivals is a great way to attract new readers to your blog. From ProBlogger:

If I had to pick one tip to give new and aspiring bloggers, it would be this: participate in blog carnivals.

For readers interested in a particular subject, blog carnivals provide a vetted digest of the best recent posts on that topic and an introduction to some great blogs.

The first edition will appear April 15th. We'll accept submissions until April 12th; submissions after that date will be considered for the next edition.

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