GrassfedCooking.com  also offers a free monthly newsletter, featuring articles about cooking grassfed and pastured meats, and informative stories and essays about the world of earth-friendly, humane meat production and consumption.  

For those of you who have had questions about cooking grassfed and pastured meats or about working more effectively with a local farmer or butcher, the site also has a Q&A section.  You can write to me with your questions, and I will research the answers for you, mail you directly, then post the findings.

Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne write Homegrown Evolution, a blog that explores a fast-growing new movement: urbanites are becoming gardeners and farmers. Kelly and Erik are the authors of The Urban Homestead … They have researched and experimented with small scale urban agriculture since moving to their tiny bungalow in Los Angeles ten years ago. Since 2006, in this practical, hands-on blog, we have shared our successes and failures and include step-by-step directions and links to resources that will get you started urban homesteading immediately, whether you live in an apartment or a house. Contact us at survivela [insert “at” symbol] sbcglobal.net.

What is a ‘hyperlocavore’?

A hyperlocavore is a person who tries to eat as much food as locally as possible. Growing your own is as local as it gets! We build resilience block by block with our neighbors friends and family.

What is ‘yard sharing or a yard share’?

Yard sharing is an arrangement between people to share skills and gardening resources; space, time, strength, tools or skills, in order to grow food as locally as possible, to make neighborhoods resilient, kids healthy and food much cheaper! The group can be friends, family, neighbors, members of a faith community (or any combination!) It’s also been called garden sharing or land sharing. It’s a bottom up model that allows people to get growing right away!

Why would I want to set up a yard sharing group?

Yard sharing is a way to connect people who love to garden, people who love healthy fresh food and people who have yards! Often people who have yards have little time time for a vegetable garden. And sometimes gardeners have trouble finding soil to garden in because they rent an apartment! Sometimes older people lack stamina and are socially isolated, finding younger people to partner in growing food together works wonderfully for all.