Hunting and Gathering

I'm finding that Wyoming is kind of a no mans land when it comes to locating fresh organic food, but my hunt for tasty things has gone well the past couple of weeks.

A neighboring town organized a Bountiful Baskets drop point where we can get organic bread and produce every other week, friends gardens are finally over producing (especially zuchinni, my friend calls it "drop a zuchinni on your neighbors doorstep season") and they happilly share, I'm finally figuring out which organic brands at the grocery store are good bargains, and a local mushroom farm is delivering to our town once a week.

Our "Chicken Little" is laying one egg every other day, but our other hen "Brian" (obviosly the kids named her) should start laying soon. Still not much for our family of 6, but I've found a couple of local people that sell fresh eggs from home.

We've eaten veggie dogs and soy bean mock chicken meat and decided we're not THAT "Organic"! I'm looking forward to the next few months when John will fill our freezer with elk and antelope.

My biggest hurdle has been convincing a Wyoming man that switching to Organic is a good idea- however since all of his hunting produces the most organic meat on the planet, he is excited to contribute that way. He's coming around, losing 12 pounds over the last couple of weeks is definately helping his outlook (I've lost 14)! His asthma and allergies have been less severe, maybe its the changes we're making? Time will tell.

I was completely overwhelmed by the cost, and limited resources in our area, but as a creative person, I'm enjoying the challenge. My goals for now: find a local source for honey, avoid "organic junk food" in the lure of convenience, plan more creative school lunch ideas for the kids, check out the Natural Grocer 2 1/2 hours away during our next monthly trip to Denver, and browse the NOLS store this week.

If you dont know what a "NOLSy" is, this is a brief description, hippee clothes and hair, smells like inscence and BO from extended survival trips in the mountians without toilet paper or soap, hobbies include hugging trees and eating granola- hhhhhmmmmm, I think it may be rubbing off on us! (I'm obviously joking, NOLS is a very reputable and renowned outdoor survival type school that has locations all over the globe including one in our town, and I'm really excited about checking out their store!)

Well, I guess thats it for now, I'll be posting about once a week with our progress!