Comments on: Portland Tuv Ha’Aretz Bike Garden Tour http://jcarrot.org/portland-tuv-haaretz-bike-garden-tour Jews, Food, and Contemporary Issues Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Liz http://jcarrot.org/portland-tuv-haaretz-bike-garden-tour/comment-page-1#comment-17190 Liz Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:15:49 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/?p=8087#comment-17190 Nina- In answer to your question about what to do with all the food from a weekly CSA share, most CSAs here offer half and even quarter shares. Our CSA, Sauvie Island Organics, offers half shares for members, which makes membership both more feasible and more affordable. For individuals or small families, this can be a workable solution. If your local CSA doesn't offer a half or quarter share, consider finding a friend to split a share with on your own. Of course, you can also donate your surplus to a food pantry. Anyone else have suggestions? Nina-

In answer to your question about what to do with all the food from a weekly CSA share, most CSAs here offer half and even quarter shares. Our CSA, Sauvie Island Organics, offers half shares for members, which makes membership both more feasible and more affordable. For individuals or small families, this can be a workable solution. If your local CSA doesn’t offer a half or quarter share, consider finding a friend to split a share with on your own.

Of course, you can also donate your surplus to a food pantry.

Anyone else have suggestions?

]]> By: beth hamon http://jcarrot.org/portland-tuv-haaretz-bike-garden-tour/comment-page-1#comment-17183 beth hamon Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:29:04 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/?p=8087#comment-17183 Beth the "serious old-school bike geek" here... If you want to see a bunch of photos from our ride, go to Flickr's Home Page and in the Search box at top, type in: "tuv ha'aretz bike". You'll get a couple of dozen photos from various folks who went on the ride that day. Also, if you're thinking of doing something like this where you live, a city/county bike route map -- or www.bikely.com online -- makes it a little easier to plot out a bike-friendly route. Beth the “serious old-school bike geek” here…

If you want to see a bunch of photos from our ride, go to Flickr’s Home Page and in the Search box at top, type in:
“tuv ha’aretz bike”. You’ll get a couple of dozen photos from various folks who went on the ride that day.

Also, if you’re thinking of doing something like this where you live, a city/county bike route map — or http://www.bikely.com online — makes it a little easier to plot out a bike-friendly route.

]]> By: Nina http://jcarrot.org/portland-tuv-haaretz-bike-garden-tour/comment-page-1#comment-17161 Nina Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:23:46 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/?p=8087#comment-17161 Fantastic post, seems like a bike tour is an awesome way to open up the city, and it's incredible how many established gardens there are among your members. Here in NYC, I found (back when I was a Tuv Ha'Artez member on 100th street, that there was way more food than me and my girlfriend could eat in a share. I stopped going to the Farmer's market, except for milk, eggs and bread. Albeit we were only a couple of people (though I think I eat enough for more than one) and we lived in Manhattan, where the cuisine of twenty nations calls to you from every corner, but what do your CSA members do with all that food? I ask in particular because it's a critique I hear a lot about CSAs - too much at once. Fantastic post, seems like a bike tour is an awesome way to open up the city, and it’s incredible how many established gardens there are among your members. Here in NYC, I found (back when I was a Tuv Ha’Artez member on 100th street, that there was way more food than me and my girlfriend could eat in a share. I stopped going to the Farmer’s market, except for milk, eggs and bread. Albeit we were only a couple of people (though I think I eat enough for more than one) and we lived in Manhattan, where the cuisine of twenty nations calls to you from every corner, but what do your CSA members do with all that food? I ask in particular because it’s a critique I hear a lot about CSAs – too much at once.

]]> By: Anon http://jcarrot.org/portland-tuv-haaretz-bike-garden-tour/comment-page-1#comment-17152 Anon Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:59:57 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/?p=8087#comment-17152 A lovely post. Keep up the good work. A lovely post. Keep up the good work.

]]> By: Avigail http://jcarrot.org/portland-tuv-haaretz-bike-garden-tour/comment-page-1#comment-17147 Avigail Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:10:46 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/?p=8087#comment-17147 It goes without saying that I love Portland and wish I could have joined you all for this garden tour. Such a creative and fun event! It goes without saying that I love Portland and wish I could have joined you all for this garden tour. Such a creative and fun event!

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