The Wednesday Fresh Foods Link Up #23

Good morning lovely friends!

Can you believe the holidays are finally over? Back to life, back to reality. A part of me is stoked to get back to eating vegetables and listening to regular music again - yet there is a small section of my little heart soul that mourns the end of twinkle lights, baileys in coffee on a weekday and watching this. Easing my tender heart though is all the left over glitter around the house. Seriously. Regardless of how many times I sweep the floor, vacuum, or scrub, that shit gets in and it never leaves. Kind of like a bad case of house guests. Or herpes. Ew.

So yes - it's back to life. And that means back to blogging and hearing all about your fantastic seasonal & whole food adventures. How are you sourcing your food in the dead of Winter? Do you still get a CSA share? Are there farmer's markets in your area? Are you able to grow kale or brussel sprouts (2 of my favorite Winter veg) on your porch? What are you doing to eat happily right now?

Side question: While we're on the topic - for those of you who experience real Winter (i.e. minus 20 and snow), how do you mange having chickens? I am thinking about getting my little mitts on a couple but am afraid it's impossible in a cold Winter weather climate. Help!

Okay - on with the sharing!

This link-up is to encourage fresh food production, consumption, activism, and awareness.

Please feel free to link up posts containing:

• 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, real 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...

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 and/or leave one here to tell us what you've shared - because we know how much we all love comments!

If you don't have a blog but would still like to contribute to the link up, throw me an email and we'll work something out.

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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I 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 the Fresh Foods pinterest board - you must have a text link back or button displayed in your post or on your blog. If you don’t link back to this post I can’t feature you.

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If you have any questions about the link up in general, please email me via freshfoodsbloghop (at) gmail (dot) com.