March 7, 2007 – Iowa Foods
There’s a fairly new web site put out by the Iowa Arts Council and the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture all about foods that have a story that connects to this place. I’ll share with you the site’s opening paragraph to entice you to go there and poke around.
“Tasty Iowa pork tenderloins, creamy Maytag blue cheese, sweet and crispy Dutch letters, a juicy Muscatine melon – these are just a few of the foods that evoke a taste of place that transport you to Iowa’s rolling green hills, scenic rivers, and friendly small towns.”
The site is called Iowa Place-Based Foods and it is worth a spin.
2 Responses to “March 7, 2007 – Iowa Foods”
Anne Marie says:
March 9, 2007 at 9:10 am
Came across your site while searching how to convert a corn
crib into a livestock area. We are working on it now, have ducks,
and aren’t sure what to do with the center, and make it predator
free. Plese let me know. I would love to ask you more
questions. Very helpful site- lots of ideas. Looks like
hard work, but I know what that’s like.
p.s. I loved seeing your sustainable food link-keep up the
good work spreading that kind of news.
highhopesgardens says:
March 9, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Anne Marie,
Our corn crib has a cement middle and I’ve always thought it would be great for small animals as our crib originally had sliding doors on both ends, so you could open it up and scoop it out easily with a tractor loader. I thought about leaving the doors open and putting up cattle panels on the ends and it would be good for sheep/goats/even miniature cattle. It would be easy to do the Joel Salatin style “in-house” compost by putting cattle in there in the winter, keep putting in new bedding and sprinkling corn in there and then letting pigs in there to root out all the corn and turn it up for pretty instant compost.
I learned a neat way to hold gates/cattle panels together – just screw eye bolts in and use electrical conduit to keep it in – for an example see the http://highhopesgardens.com/blog/2006/02/11/ february 11, 2006 entry. That way it is really quick and secure to open/close makeshift gates/fences.
I’ve got a few responses on this topic, if you do anything, send me a photo, maybe I’ll start collecting adaptive re-uses of corn-cribs!