Nerd Word of the Day: Locavore
Locavore: Someone who eats fresh, locally grown ingredients.
This word was actually The Oxford English Dictionary’s Word of the Year in 2007. It was coined by some San Fransisco women who wanted to promote home grown vegetables grown within a 100 mile radius of their homes in an effort to cut down on fuel consumption needed to transport the food.
The image to the upper left is a photo of my garden back in Russia, so I guess you could say that I was a locavore back in Russia :-) And below is a video shot by my brother of our back yard. Let me know what crops you see. :-) Also.. let me know if you can find my shower. :-)
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The first lady’s book, American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America, has been her focus as of late. Her appearance on Letterman was just one of many television cameos promoting the book. sourced: http://personalliberty.com/2012/06/08/michelle-obama-continues-to-seek-celebrity-status/?eiid= ..garden party!
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[Shovel vs. Spade] :cool: Most people only care for them selves and plows else things aside—– :lol: “Scientists tend to be…Utopian in temperament–to believe in the possibility in principle, perhaps even in fact, of a different and altogether better world. The great days of Utopian thinking were the days when voyages of discovery on the earth’s surface had the same significance as space travel has today. The old Utopias–New Atlantis, Christianopolis and the City of the Sun–were faraway contemporary societies, but the Utopias men dream of today lie in the distant future or on a planet of a distant faraway sun. Arcadian thinking looks not forward nor far away but backward to a golden age that could yet return. Arcadia is a world of innocence not yet corrupted by ambition and inquiry, a world of pious acquiescence in the established order of things, without strife http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Schlehe1.jpg“>sloe flowersand without ambition–a world of ‘truth and honest living.’ Milton, whom I quote, saw it as the purpose of education ‘to repair the ruins of our first parents,’ to return to the happy innocence of the world before the Fall.”
Peter B. Medawar (1915-1987). British immunologist. Advice to a Young Scientist (1979).
…[SPRING] in less than a month… :mrgreen: <a href="
:smile: GOD BLESS America :smile: …The Lady of the Modern [PLOW] ;-) Harvest Season in the White House GardenNextBack1 of 12Brooks Kraft / Corbis for TIMENextBackGroundbreaking
First Lady Michele Obama grabs a rake on the day the White House garden was inaugurated in March 2009. The 1,100-sq.-ft. plot is the first vegetable garden to be planted on White House grounds since Eleanor Roosevelt’s World War II victory garden…”Eleanor’s husband was a fascist the killed ‘hemp”
•A Brief History of the White House Kitchen…grow some love and Marina rhymes with farina :lol:
:twisted: My editing was slow…I suppose like roosevlts[][]party with the DeMoC.rats[][] competion with hitler and stalin for “ Fascist’s reality :evil:
…Hemp for the marinas….Gob of JOBS :cool: blue ridge rangers…zombies[CCR] :lol:
:smile: Lyrics:
I went to a garden party
to reminisce with my old friends
A chance to share old memories
and play our songs again
When I got to the garden party,
they all knew my name
No one recognized me,
I didn’t look the same
But it’s all right now,
I learned my lesson well.
See you can’t please everyone
so you got to please yourself
…peace out…fresh onions I pick today :cool:
:cool: [GIN] rummysloe berries… :grin: [chives]
Marina getting dirt under her finger nails? I’ve got to see a picture of this to believe it! But, I like the idea, as gardening is a fruitful activity. Time to get ready to plant! Happy first day of spring.
Marina, Well no wonder no dirt was evident under your finger nails, you had a shower in your garden. Great idea. I suspect the tank above heated the water from the sunlight? But, how did the water get into the tank? Did you wear flowers in your hair?, too? A Cowsills tune.
found it…but thats to easy coz your gardens looks same as ours in Slovakia….
anyway still im asking for the word Slovan,Slawian,Slaven
Nice gardens, but unless your only about 3 ft tall i didn’t see your shower so I would have to say your shower was being heard and not seen.
Just now, plucked a medium and a small guava from plant in my backyard … and ate them!
Napomnilo moi stariy dom a osobenno dush tochno takoy bratu respect za video :smile:
The term locavore was coined by four Bay Area women — Jen Maiser, Jessica Prentice, Sage Van Wing, and DeDe Sampson — and rather quickly consumed by what we still insist on calling the dietgeist (in the vain hope someone will name it word of the year, although “ethicurean” would be fine, too).
Locavore is the successor to 2006′s “carbon neutral,” 2005′s “podcast,” and 2004′s “blog.” Runners-up included cloudware (online apps), upcycling (waste reuse), and cougar (a predatory older woman — um, ethos of what exactly?). In the press release, Ben Zimmer, OUP editor for American dictionaries, explains that the word locavore “shows how food-lovers can enjoy what they eat while still appreciating the impact they have on the environment. It’s significant in that it brings together eating and ecology in a new way.”
Congratulations to the original locavore four, and the legions of Eat Local Challenge participants, “Animal Vegetable Miracle” readers, and “Plenty”-inspired 100-Mile dieters who spread this important philosophical meme throughout America!
On a related note, Webster’s word of the year is “grass station,” for a biofuels filling location; last year’s behind-the-curve pick was “crackberry.”
OK…I paste and copy..eth•i•cu•re•an n. (also adj.) Someone who seeks out tasty things that are also sustainable, organic, local, and/or ethical — SOLE food, for short.
Living in the mountains or des(s)ert, of 100 miles,..very limited and not liberal :razz: :razz:
Very green. :mrgreen:
think i will crawl back into my casket now
livin la vida locavore ♫ ♪
A ‘Der Der’ is the cardboard tube inside the toilet paper roll.
It is name so because when you place the opening of this cardboard tube to your mouth you make a sound like ♫ ♪ Der Dit Der Der ♫ ♪. :mrgreen:
Garden Marina :shock: It’s almost a farm :smile:
…but does it compete with Mr & Mrs Good’s self-sufficiency garden… Farm…um… Farden…Farmeggedon… Farmeggarden?
THE GOOD LIFE
Plough Your Own Furrow… :grin:
That’s an [ambitextural] statement!
Reading between the lines, my – not quite as cryptic – reply is:
I’m not flexible enough. Although, I hear yoga practitioners have developed a method. Ultimately, it’s a fruitless occupation.
I see some lettuce, some onions, and some dill… right?
But I see too few paths. How do you walk about? It doesn’t look like you’ve stepped on anything. :P
I have a vineyard, and my grandfather makes the best wine every year. It gets better and better as each year passes, because he is constantly bringing something different to the mix. It makes most of the expensive wines on the market seem tasteless, or even sour to me. :-)
♫♪ La Di Da ♫♪ :grin:
That garden looks very lush. Most of Russia gets cold in Winter, how did you heat the shower water? Looks like our outside toilet where I was raised, about 100 feet from the house! It was nice to eat fresh fruit and vegetables right where they grew. Nice video, hope I did’nt mistake the shower.
What is this “heat the shower water” thing?
interesting shower. Is that heated by direct sunlight? I guess that would make your shower energy efficient and environmentally friendly. Does it fit two? :oops:
I’ve never heard of this word. If this new segment is for the purpose of “blowing the whistle” on certain words and phrases then let me put up TWO of my BIGGEST PET PEEVES…
First of all, YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO SPLIT THE INFINITIVE! (which is the root of verbs before they are branched out into their conjugated forms). So, the popular iconic example from Star Trek, “To boldly go”… the infinitive, “to go” is split by the adverb, boldly: Don’t let your English teacher catch you doing this one… BUT what I REALLY hate is that lately it has become very chic to split the infinitive with the word, ‘NOT’. I wish we could knock that major flaw out of the English language for good! To remedy this problem, Americans need to rediscover the infinitive, “To stop”, followed by whatever action or situation they want NOT to be in existence anymore.
Pet Peeve #2: The word, TRANSITION, is a noun… PERIOD. IT IS NOT A VERB! I hear so many people on the ‘Today’ show, ‘Oprah’ and other shows using that one word as a verb… :roll: That’s very incorrect!
Well, Marina, since you’ve got so many people listening to you now, please feel free to take my lead and announce these flaws in the English language so we can get people to stop misusing these words and phrases;
then, we can make a transition to the problem of fixing the economy. :mrgreen:
dellforce: Where and how do you draw the line in basic communication; is and are the artist, what sees the picture, makes for the value for words and sense? This tech society has made rules for language skills a “knight-mare” of laws and bills. The media is for making and milking…$$$$$$$$$$$not intell-igible$$$$$$spitting the caste of class…..clash of cash and the classless :lol:
Language is a wonderful thing. Verbal and written symbols for thought that continuously evolve. While it is important to initially learn a solid foundation of classic vocabulary and grammar, it would be a shame not to experiment with new ways of expressing thoughts through beautiful new arrangements of symbols and sounds. You must grow beyond your present boundaries to evolve. Rules were made to be bent, if not broken completely.
Thank you for sharing your pet peeves with us. Hopefully your post will encourage people to promptly transition to the correct way of doing things.
:mrgreen:
obfuskation, I’m gonna WRING your NECK!!! :evil:
The best way to do that would probably be to smoothly transition from the mount into a guillotine choke.
:grin:
merriam webster:
Main Entry: transition
Function: intransitive verb
Date: 1946
: to make a transition
so … transition is also a verb. period. you might want to tell your 120 year old english teacher about this new development of the last 60 years when you next meet him.
fucking idiots …
PHuKing IDS….Zoo Brazil @ Transitions Guest Mix 07-20-08
do it alex :cool:
Hello…native species._-_._-_.Continental Europe’s habitants were a natural diversity of populating both continents of “NORTH” and SOUTH”….GOD BLESS L. BURBANK…your jobs and salaries are created from the “super fund”…native species of what year and ….thanks!!!…alex, [transitions]
Has anyone heard about ‘Victory Gardens’? The guy from ‘Who killed the electric car?’ has one.
Hi Captain, check my last Twitter regarding the top of the Sexting page. Marina must have missed the twitter.
For some reason the link now transfers to the proper page, but the link still shows two domain names.
Marina doesn’t track tweets from the students. I’ll take a look about the link.
I actually do track student’s comments if they have my name in them and saw the tweet yesterday and fixed it. I think pk is looking at a cached version?
Good morning Marina,
Thank you for the fix, and I checked the link on the Sexting page and it is still in error. Caches are cleared.
Error is one forward slash instead of two after ‘http:’.
href=http:/www.hotforwords.com/The link actually works when clicked, where before, it had gone to the 404 error page. However, when you hover over the link and look at the status bar, there are two domain names.
Did you get the comment I said telling you that I think you accidently enabled annotations on “hello” people have started to notice now and add stuff in.
Oh Wow! …I’m like speechless… I so want to grab a camera and visit your garden & home. I so miss my grandmothers garden. I remember eating peas right from the pod. They were so sweet it was like eating candy. Oh and the tomatoes were so succulent it titillate my tongue. Do you grow any cilantro there? That’s my passion right now.
Thank Marina for sharing your backyard. I think I’m going to make your photo my desktop photo. :)
I too have happy memories of my Grandma’s garden. What I remember most is the Apple, Pear and Plum trees, Rhubarb, Gooseberry bushes and tall hedges of Lilac.
There were sounds too; she kept a couple of hundred chickens, so I remember waking up in the morning to the sight of sun streaming through the curtains and the sound of cocks crowing and hens clucking.
When I lived in Yakima, Wa my dad would visit the neighbors to get apples, pears, apricot’s, peaches, you name it. It was odd living in the city and people had orchards in their back yard. We had so much fruit it would spoil before we could eat it all.
Oh those pesky roosters! They crow way to early in the freaking morning. :roll:
A camera eats scenes and spits out pictures.
Parsley family; is another name for carrot family…celery, Queen Ann’s Lace(Marina’s).. Jack: do you like [Coriander]?…the seed-spice in good sausage…that is the same plant as is “chinese parsley and that of ‘cilantro’”…bot-t-a-kneed I’ll bet Marina likes [kimchi] and fresh cabbage soup….herbsearly cab-b-age…born in a cabbage~*~AGE!*! :wink:
Nice and green! verdant gardens… :mrgreen:
Was that your shower (with the white door)?
I’m kind of surprised no one said anything, but then, no one wants to get called out for correcting the teacher, eh? But a Locavore is a person who eats locally grown items, not the garden things come from…Check it, Carni-vore, you don’t call a cow a carnivore. Herbi-vore…again, you don’t call a carrot a herbivore. And the “trend” is locavorism (or Food Patriotism), just like carnivorism, or herbivorism.
jindal, that makes PERFECT sense! I will change it immediately! Thanks for pointing that out! How did I miss that?!!!
Maybe you should keep that in mind when selecting your next TA. IE, someone who knows words, and is helpful, can research, and knows how to logically educate, rather than choosing a stalkery cheerleader. Just a thought.
ok…Snow eating…American style..Acapella version of Michelle Produced and performed by Gravel …
…intense [heirloom]…our family help save rye :cool: …The Orlova garden is considered “intensive agri.culture”…smart eaters are wise tweeters :lol:
I though the same thing but I thought maybe I was wrong and Marina had good reason.
“The image to the upper left is a photo of my garden back in Russia, so I guess you could say that I was a locavore back in Russia “….
( :razz: lippylibbys)…have a homegrown good day :smile:
Marina, is this your дача?
Your душ is the tall rectangular box with the white door and black cylindrical cistern on top.
Hmm, hard to tell what you were growing. I think I saw some sunflower plants. What was the pink bloom?
Just because I live in a agricultural community I learned how to make maximum dollars selling produce. Not my main business just happen to be in the middle of it all.
If you need a consultant I will share my knowledge.
Offer is good only for West Coast or Florida or places of mild climate.
My specialty is organic produce.
What we once called: Truck farming.
Can’t grow much here. Too much altitude (7,500 +/-), too short a growing season.
Is this in CA? Where are you East of Fresno in the Sierras?
What county? :???:
Sorry to mislead. Just making conversation. Not in CA. East in the rockies.
Do you all share the same horse? :razz: Do you work with wheel-barrows?…Che: were you with the man that fell off wheelbarrow behind horse?
..[Green Revolution]…go Rocky
Had a shower somewhat like that. Fifty-five gallon drum, garden hose, head off of a sprinkler can. The height of luxury. Also had a big garden. Even farmers market vegetables don’t taste as good a what we raised ourselves.
I really like the old building in the background… I love old wood. The garden is very lush… couldn’t see any Sensimilla though… which would be a nice added touch… and would “spark my appetite” for all things green! :grin:
The shower is that black bucket in the middle of the garden. :shock:
Do you have winter onions, to the left? Garlic is good. Did I see potatoe blossoms? Are there 3 or 4 varieties of onions…from the lily family of succulent bulbs and pugnent taste.
~*~*~*Booker T & the MG’s – green onions – mod classic 60s..rye grass?
:grin:
For some reason, watching that video made me think of rhubarb pie… ??
The nice thing about the midwest is all of the farmer’s markets. It seems like one out of three people around here have a garden, and since i quit drinking and mellowed a bit, i’ve tried it a little myself. “Home Grown” … it’s not just for weed anymore.
[Rhubarb] or pie plant
..please do rhubarb..I thought it was Russian…now I find out it is barbarian…pictures and more
In the Amana Colonies they make wine out of rhubarb, dandelion and pretty much anything else that pokes up out of the ground.
pretty
The Brothers Nelson – Garden Party
Kale and other cruciferous plant varieties like cabbage, gourds or other various cucurbitaeuos plants , dill(seasonings), praprika peppers and weeds. The shower I used, oh well…nice pavers in the garden and the tulips may tell us the time of year.
… :razz: Good job done; may the best to Marina’s brother… :lol:
Did someone fart at 0:09? I can see the big leaf plant like a squash or mabey a cucumber. It is really hard to recognize much else, HD would help.
{ Was that a maryjuwana plant :???: }
HD wouldn’t make any difference.
Bro needs to be told that the picture should move and not the camera. :smile:
I want to be a locavore. I try to buy local, but sometimes the price difference is huge. I know, more dedication. :roll: Working on it.
Great word, Teach! :grin:
You had a beautiful backyard in Russia. Is your family still in the same place? We have a very tiny garden in the summer. Tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, that sort of thing.
Mrs. Somebody will not eat fresh eggs. “Don’t you know where they come from? “ Her eggs come from ‘the grocer.’
If only she could see them being produced… :roll:
She thinks that the grocer lays the eggs? :D
*the gross-er* :)
Does she drink water?
Does she know what fish and whales do in it? :lol:
Make new comments at the top! So how did it end up at this spot?
Strange things are happening here. Someone must investigate.
Your shower is that outhouse building with the black tank on top.
The greenbelt concept has been around for a long time, just now people are beginning to realize it was wrong to put big box stores on good farm land.
This is what farmers’ markets are all about, the opportunity is presented so as for farmers to sell at retail thus guarantee fresh local produce and supporting your local at the same time.
People in California are so fortunate to have year round fresh produce. Selling local produce in big cities is a very lucrative business. It is like growing money. :smile: