Splash at St. Francois

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

St. Francois State Park in Bonne Terre, MO has a clean creek, shallow river, and great trails full of decaying trees and lead mine holes.

Filed in Missouri, Ozarks, Photography | Tagged , | Permalink | Comments (0)

Miranda, Let’s Make Corn Muffins comes one step closer to reality

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

That’s me, on the right.  I’m playing the mandolin.  Trey’s on spoons, Paige has her didgeridoo. We have a name, an album cover design, and some song titles . . . now I just need to learn how to play.

album sketch

Filed in Music, Personal | Tagged , , | Permalink | Comments (0)

Stanton Brothers: answering the salmonella scare

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

Stanton Brothers hens lay the tastiest eggs.

And they give Sustain Mizzou great deals on their surplus, which we have them deliver to the Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri as part of our local food drive.

Except right now, there’s not much surplus. I talked to the Stantons today at the Columbia Farmers Market as they took down their tent. They had sold out of over 400 dozen eggs a full half hour before closing time. Plus they’re getting orders from restaurants that may have never sourced locally before.

A customer said something like, “thanks to mass media.” Wait, what? I’ve been living under a big Res Life rock for two weeks and was only vaguely aware of the egg recall.

These numbers tell a story. Half-billion eggs recalled; 1,000 people sick; 5,000 fresh eggs sold. Food fears suck for the big producers and customers who buy from them, but this turn toward organic and/or local eggs is definitely a positive externality.

Filed in Food | Tagged , , , , , , | Permalink | Comments (0)