This year's Salt Lake Eat Local Challenge began August 28, 2010! Join the celebration of local healthy choices by eating food that is produced no more than 250 miles from your home. Learn how others have participated so you can chart a course that will work for you. You can find food sources, events, books, and articles below.
1. Gather your leftover vegetable & flower seeds from last year.
2. Have no seeds? Come anyway and we’ll give you some to start.
3. Bring your friends to the Seed Swap.
4. Trade or donate your seeds with local garden enthusiasts & farmers.
5. Use your new seeds to start or expand your space with variety.
Also accepting non-perishable donations for local food banks.
Developing a greater awareness about our food—that’s what the Eat Local Challenge is about. While the “standard” Challenge is described as consuming only foods from within a 250 mile radius for a whole month, whatever makes this experience fun and educational (and a challenge to you) is valid.
Is this your first year for the whole family? Consider doing one week of completely local. Are you feeling really strapped for time and realizing that there are really no ready-made meals available locally? Try choosing a couple of food groups such as produce and meats and just be true to those. (You’ll save time on not having to make pasta or bread.)
However you challenge yourself this year—have fun and enjoy learning about your food consumption!
This blog is written by authors who are interested in building community while supporting our local economy and global ecology.
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Church & Dwight (the parent company of Arm and Hammer Baking Soda) has mining/manufacturing plants in Green River, Wyoming (within the 250 mile radius) as well as Ohio and Missouri.
More info to follow...
The guy at the plant in Wyoming said that about 1/2 of all Arm and Hammer baking soda is manufactured in Green River.
To verify, look for "ww" printed after the expiration date on the box.
BAKING POWDER
As they are fundamentally different products, you may not substitute ARM & HAMMER® Baking Soda for baking powder in a recipe. You can make a baking powder substitute using ARM & HAMMER® Baking Soda. To make the equivalent of 1 teaspoon baking powder, mix 5/8 teaspoons of cream of tartar with ¼ teaspoon ARM & HAMMER® Baking Soda.
Both baking soda and baking powder are used in baking to help dough rise, for leavening. ARM & HAMMER® Baking Soda is a natural pure sodium bicarbonate. Baking powder is a mixture of baking soda and various acidic ingredients. ARM & HAMMER® Baking Soda needs to react in combination with acidic ingredients, like cream of tartar or lemon juice, to release the carbon dioxide that causes dough to rise. Baking powder, which already contains these acidic ingredients, is used in recipes without other acidic ingredients.
CREAM OF TARTAR SUBSTITUTE
"It is a little more problematic to find a substitute for cream of tartar in baking projects. White vinegar or lemon juice, in the ratio of 3 times the amount of cream of tartar called for, will provide the right amount of acid for most recipes. But that amount of liquid may cause other problems in the recipe, and bakers have found that cakes made with vinegar or lemon juice have a coarser grain and are more prone to shrinking than those made with cream of tartar."
Did anybody notice that the line of logic above (with baking soda, cream of tartar and vinegar) leads to an exploding volcano?
BAKING POWDER SUBSTITUE
Mix the following proportions of baking soda and yogurt and reduce liquid for recipe accoringly.
1tsp. Baking soda w/ the "WW"
1/4- 1/2 cup Drake's Family Farms Yogurt (they make yogurt from their own cultures for approximately 10 generations before needing to start fresh, now that's local!
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