Paleo farm shares?
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Anonymous
| We keep a primal (adapted version of paleo) diet in our home and are interested in a farm share, which should be easy enough - meat & veggies are the foundation of our diet, BUT plenty of these shares seem to offer up a lot of white potatoes & corn, which we wouldn't use. Any suggestions? |
Anonymous
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What would your primal ancestors have done?
They would have taken up their spears and clubs and seized the land they were interested in, driving off, killing, or enslaving the native inhabitants. I suggest you fill your subaru with weapons, drive out to Virginia, and claim a few acres of your new hunting and foraging grounds. |
Anonymous
| Our farm share actually doesn't do many potatoes and corn, OP, so I think look at some others. Yes, they might be in the list of "crops we grow" but both have short harvest seasons and are land intensive. You'll be getting many more tomatoes, kale, and a sea of other random greens. Just trade your corn for someone else's mizuna - you'll both be thrilled. |
Anonymous
Had to google mizuna - looks great! Thanks, that sounds easy enough. We are new to shares - would we just ask the others at the pick up site if they'd like to swap? Is that proper farm share etiquette? |
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Anonymous
Yes, yes I realize the justifications proponents of primal/paleo diets offer are rather silly and I too laughed at the Darwinian theories. Going paleo was certainly not my idea but I went along to be supportive and as it turns out, skipping the empty calories offered by rice, wheat, and other starchy roots has improved my quality of life. So you can make fun of the spears and loin cloths, but I'm enjoying the extra energy boost I get from stable blood sugar levels and being the thinnest I've ever been, even after a baby. |
Anonymous
| In response to the farm share etiquette question-I would get in touch with the farm and ask. I did one farm share where they always had a box of extras and you could put items you didn't want in the box and take other items you did want. I wouldn't hate you if you accosted me and tried to convince me to take your potatoes in return for my greens, but it would be a little off putting. |
Anonymous
LOL I thought the same thing when I read OP's post. Puh-lease. |
Anonymous
That's helpful, thanks! Yah, I thought asking people directly might be a bit rude. Extra box sounds good - I'll ask. |
Anonymous
In my experience, many people don't like greens or get sick of them, while stuff like corn and potatoes are more popular. So if there is a trading system, it should work well for you. |
Anonymous
You don't get to claim that this is just the way you eat, jinkies, what's the big deal? if you insist on using the P word. "What do you do about the stuff you don't want in your CSA box?" would be a nonsmug question. "I'm thin and pure and awesome!" gets you mocked. Or skewered on an stone-tipped spear. |
Anonymous
| If you eat toward the Paleolithic/Mesolithic boundary, you should be fine, but if you are more strictly Paleo, then farmshares are out--no agriculture until 10,000 years ago, sorry. |
Anonymous
Not necessarily: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/may/china-agriculture-origins-050213.html |
Anonymous
Is paleo/primal such a hot button topic that it has to be referred to in first initial only? I am new to the board, so not aware of such sensitivities but still, this reaction seems a little bizarre. And what's a jinky? |
Anonymous
Well, dinkus, then you'd be eating potatoes b/c they were grinding up tubers--gasp into flour. BTW, french fries are empty calories, a baked potato is healthy. and PP, who didn't know what "jinkies" please watch some Scooby Doo and report back. |