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Seasonal Recipe: FallSustained KitchenOctober 6, 2019autumn, thanksgiving, sides, side dish, squash, acorn squash, recipe, maple syrup, maple roasted, walnut oil, walnut, nutty, sustained kitchen, recipes, 6 ingredients, less than 10 ingredients Comments

Pollinators 101

You've probably heard a lot of hype about "saving bees." Bees are plastered on our billboards, pressed on our t-shirts and printed in our magazines. But the media rarely explain why bees need saving, how they should be saved and who should save them. In this post, I'll give you the DL on all things pollinator.

Basic Applesauce

Remembering my wisdom tooth recovery days, I decided to make an applesauce that can be eaten cold or warm with or without spices. This recipe is adapted from Bon Appetit's Classic Applesauce recipe.

Seasonal Recipe: FallSustained KitchenSeptember 29, 2019fall, autumn, applesauce, snack, kids, food, dessert, apples, honeycrisp, easy, sustained kitchen, recipe, lunch, 6 ingredientsComment

Beginners' Guide to Wintering a Garden

A chill is in the air, the berries and tomatoes have come and gone, and your garden is starting to look a little dead. Now what? You might be tempted to leave your plants in the ground until spring, but you would most def regret that decision when you're ready to plant next year. In this post, I’ll tell you exactly how to close a garden for winter to set yourself up for success next spring.

Apple and Sweet Potato French Toast Bake

Seasonal Recipe: FallSustained KitchenSeptember 22, 2019fall, autumn, recipe, seasonal, apple, honeycrisp, sweet potato, breakfast, easy, sweet, food, french toast, stuffed french toast, baked french toast, 9 ingredientsComment

5 Alternatives to Plastic Food Storage

Whether it's in sturdy containers or flimsy Ziploc bags, plastic has a way of sneaking into our kitchens. Even reusable plastic containers aren't as sustainable as non-plastic containers because all plastic eventually makes its way into our air, land or water. In this post, I'll give you the DL on the best non-plastic containers on the market.

Crustless Plum, Blueberry and Almond Tart

This week I really wanted to post something healthy and veg-centric, but clearly, that didn't happen. Normally when I head to the farmers market, I have a few vague recipe ideas in mind, but nothing too concrete. This week I was a little low on ideas and was just waiting to be inspired by whatever veggies looked good. But when I saw my favorite vendor's pints of blueberries lined up perfectly next to their baskets of plums, it was just too much to resist. Especially since summer fruits are quickly dwindling, I was itching to buy them while I still could.

Hearty Fig Bars

I'd been eyeing figs at the farmers market for a few weeks before I finally caved. In all honesty, figs had always seemed too fussy and bougie for me so I had avoided them. With this recipe, all those feelings of fig inadequacy went out the window. This recipe is approachable, quick and delicious, and you probably have most of the ingredients in your cabinet already.

Fall Produce Guide

Chilly mornings are starting to creep in, PSLs have infiltrated coffee shops everywhere and autumn fruits and veggies will be hitting the farmers markets soon. In this post, I’ll tell you all about the produce pals you need to be eating this fall.

Ground Cherry and Peach Crisp

A few years ago, my mom planted ground cherries in her garden in honor of her dad, who adored his ground cherry patch when she was growing up. She didn't remember what he used to bake with them and they don't taste great raw, so they have been more like a weed than a crop for the past few years. Even though we kept pulling them up, they kept coming back year after year. I like to think this was my grandpa intervening from the afterlife, trying to force us to enjoy the darn cherries.

Why Native Crops Matter

Farmers market season is in full swing, which means it's the perfect time to buy local native crop varieties. In this post, I'll tell you all about native crops and why you should be buying or growing them.

Baked Plum Oatmeal

Seasonal Recipe: SummerSustained KitchenAugust 25, 2019breakfast, easy, fast, quick, food, recipe, oatmeal, fruit, healthy, sustainable, sustainable cooking, sustainable food, sustained kitchen, 9 ingredients, less than 10 ingredients, pantry staplesComment

Tilling 101

Tilling soils too much or too aggressively can break hard-earned soil structure, which is leading to topsoil loss, pesticide runoff and soil erosion. Some farmers have escaped this destruction through more soil-friendly tilling practices. In this post, I'll tell you all about these conservative tilling practices.

Farming and GardeningSustained KitchenAugust 21, 2019tilling, agriculture, sustainable, sustainability tips, sustained kitchenComment

Cherry Tomato Galette

Seasonal Recipe: SummerSustained KitchenAugust 18, 2019galette, pastry, savory, dinner, lunch, tomato, cherry tomato, sustainable food, sustainability, sustained kitchen, cooking, food, recipe, 11 ingredientsComment

Is Compostable Silverware Sustainable?

It's easy to assume that anything "compostable" is good for the environment. For some waste (read: food scraps) composting is the perfect disposal method, but for waste like single-use silverware, composting may not be the best option. In this post I'll explain the pros and cons of compostable cutlery.

Zucchini, Sweet Corn and Tomato Pizza

Seasonal Recipe: SummerSustained KitchenAugust 11, 2019pizza, sustained kitchen, sustainability, sustainable food, local food, gardening, seasonal eating, tomato, sweet corn, zucchini, recipe, summer, healthy, food, 15 ingredientsComment

Certified Green Restaurants

Ever wonder if your favorite restaurants are sustainable? Me too. Turns out, restaurants can opt into a certification system created by the Green Restaurant Association (GRA) to show the world how green they are. In this post, I'll tell you all about the GRA and Certified Green restaurants.

Tomato-Cucumber Salad

Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) 101

Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) are agricultural communities that are internationally recognized as sustainable. These sites are super important and most def deserve more publicity than they get. In this post, I'll tell you all about GIAHS and how these sites are making the world a better place.

Toaster Corncakes

I stumbled on this recipe while searching for dishes to make good use of the amazing summer sweet corn that has infiltrated the Midwest. Admittedly, I got a bit sidetracked when I saw a recipe for "toaster corn cakes" (which don't contain sweet corn) in my King Arthur Flour cookbook. After reading King Arthur's description of these as "English muffin-sized, sort-of-sweet cornbread rounds can be split, toasted, and slathered with butter and jam," I was sold.