The Wednesday Fresh Foods Blog Hop Week #8

Hello darlings and welcome to week 8 of the Wednesday Fresh Foods Blog Hop!

Last week's link up was so absolutely outstanding in both quality and quantity! What a good week! There were so many incredible posts featuring natural foods, seasonal dishes, farmer's market trips and even a CSA collection or two. I was so stoked to read what everyone had been up to - selecting highlights this week was the most difficult yet. I did manage to narrow my choices down to 3 though and this is what I ended up with:

Healthy Eating Myth - I Can't Afford It via Marquis and Emily

Simple Living Ideas: Be the Bee - Beekeeping Basics via Simple Living with Diane Balch

How to Render Beef Fat into Tallow via An Organic Wife

Unfortunately I don't have a farmer's market trip or CSA box to share with you this week - apparently moving across the country requires less food in the house and many more social engagements than I ordinarily feel comfortable with. Oh and wine. Don't forget the wine. Aye. I have been eating lots of these though:

Beautiful Summer salad and beet greens... Fabulous!

Don't forget to tell your friends about our link up and display our badge on your side bar if you support good, whole, real, seasonal, local, organic food. Wow - that was a mouthful! But seriously, we had so much fun last week, let's keep this party going!

This blog hop is to encourage fresh food production, consumption, activism, and awareness.

Please feel free to link up:

• CSA collections;
• Farmer's market treasures;
• Home grown/raised hauls;
• Recipes that feature fresh fruits and veggies that are seasonal to your area or feature local, sustainably farmed meats, eggs, and dairy;
• DIY projects and tutorials for: gardening, storing and/or preserving fresh foods, composting market scraps, raising chickens in your back yard, etc;
• Tips for local eating such as: tips for CSA members, how to find out what’s in season, how to make the most of your local produce, how to raise chickens, etc...

Please make sure anything you link up is something that is currently available in your area from a local farmer or things from Whole Foods with the giant “Local” sign on top (or similar).

Please do not link up:

• Any highly processed recipes or foods (i.e. white flour, white sugar);
• Recipes that don’t include any seasonal, local produce, meats, dairy, or eggs or that are only about specific diets and are not focused on growing or eating fresh food;
• Recipes that feature produce that isn’t available locally and in season (e.g. mangoes and avocados in the Northeast, fresh tomatoes in winter, etc); 
• Giveaways; Etsy Shops; Advertisements.

We don’t want to become the link police, and we want everyone to be able to participate; however, if you are in blatant violation of these rules, we will delete your link.

You may link up to 3 posts in a given week that you haven't shared here before by using the linky tool at the bottom of this post. Feel free to click on any of the linked up posts and say hello by leaving a comment for your fellow fresh food communitarians because we know how much we all love comments!

If you don't have a blog but still want to participate or don't want to write a post specifically on something you'd like to share here, feel free to comment with any thoughts, ideas or suggestions. You can also participate via our flickr pool. Just send us an email @ freshfoodsbloghop (at) gmail (dot) com or request an invitation through the flickr group’s page. Deadlines for photo submissions is the Monday before the Wednesday post.

And lastly, please include a simple text link back to this blog hop (the post, not the blog's main page) in the post(s) you link up or add a button:

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We want this blog hop to feature you as well as help each other come together to form a resource of good food ways for one another. In order to be featured on the weekly highlights - which includes a highlight on your post here the following week as well as tweets, facebook page "like" and posting, and being added to our Fresh Foods pinterest board - you must have a link back or button displayed in your post or on your blog. Again, we don’t want to be the “blog hop police”, but if you don’t link back to this post we can’t feature you.

You can alternatively link up via Sam's blog @ Cooking My Way Through My CSA, as well as find her on her Pinterest site.

And of course, you can link up here, become my friend by joining this site on the right side bar, and/or find me on twitter, facebook, Pinterest, and my sister site, Taste Buds.

If you have any questions about the blog hop in general, please email us at freshfoodsbloghop (at) gmail (dot) com.

Okay serious business over - let's have some fun! Link up!