Food Expiration...Waste Not, Want Not

Good morning all!

Now, not to spoil your lunch, I have an interesting article for you to read from NPR about 'expired food'...You know the phrase 'Waste Not, Want Not', right? Well, people at the National Food Lab have been looking into the actual shelf life of food, not just the dates printed on its containers. As someone who has been farming her whole life, I think about food a lot. I think about where it comes from, how it was made, etc., but I also think about where it goes.....and a lot of the time, food goes right into the trash can without being so much as nibbled on. Take a look at the article to get a taste for what I'm talking about.

I'll be posting again soon about food, composting, and local businesses that do both.

I'll leave you with an image of a poster circa 1917 that the U.S. Food Administration created during the war which 'addresses the matter of civilian food supply'...I think it's still a great list to live by.

M

Movie: 'Landfill Harmonic'

Happy dark days of late autumn.

I was surfing on the interwebs today and came across this project called the Landfill Harmonic. It's a documentary about a village in Paraguay where music is played by young musicians on instruments made out of  - get this - TRASH!
The village is built on a landfill so there is plenty of waste to turn into instruments...such as a cello made from an old oil drum.

Watch the trailer, you'll be blown away.

M

ps. I'm still collecting tea bags for my next trash project!