Fat Habitat

Introducing my CSA

My husband and I joined our Community Supported Agriculture group: Glendale CSA. We got a half-share of vegetables and a full share of eggs. We started with a half-share as we've never done this before, so we rather start off with less food than too much.

The farm is on Long Island: Garden of Eve. They use no pesticides and use natural methods of keeping out pests as well as growing certain crops to enrich the soil.

We start getting vegetables in June. Although I'm looking forward to those late summer, early fall root vegetables.

A CSA is good for the environment. You get LOCAL (less fuel for transportation), organic (less toxins in the soil) and farm fresh food (yum!)

More about this as the summer continues.

CSA

This summer I will be trying to get into a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). The essentials are you pay a certain amount in the summer (for mine, it's about $500) and for three months every week you get vegetables, usually organic (Some CSA have fruit and meat options).  You also have to volunteer a few hours of your time.  It seems expensive but if you think about it it can average about $45 a week, give or take.  That's a lot cheaper than whole foods and maybe even the regular grocery store.

Beef Recall

There is a beef recall in the North Eastern and Mid Atlantic area.  I'm posting this because some of the tainted meat might in places like Trader Joes, Shaws or Giant with the label "natural".  A full list of recall products can be found here. 

I don't buy meat unless it comes from grass fed, antibiotic free, and free range cows.  Remember to check your label and cook your meat. 

Food Industry

Desperate Food Industry Tries to Tar Michael Pollan and Organic Produce

They are also critical of London’s School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's study on organic vs. Non-organic. And later mention the school's hateful study that blames fat people for global warming. (check out page 2 of the article).

I recently went to a food sustainability event that instead of focusing ways to making organic/ unprocessed/non-gmo food more available it became all about the O word.

I'm someone who liked to be more sustainable but I find that the environmental movement tends to stigmatize and marginalize fat people.  It's hard for me to listen to a lecture/ read a book/ watch a movie that villianizes or victimizes me.   (I am not supporting Monsanto nor am I a poor person who doesn't know better.)

So I started this blog which is about my journey (and advice) on using less resources, creating less garbage, preserving land, curbing sprawl and blight, eating well (without dieting) and of incorporating anyone who wants to change regardless of who they are.  

I won't be updating this blog as much as fat chicks rule.  Just some personal stories as I help restore the fat of the land.