tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79015819210301799172024-02-19T02:01:03.293-05:00The Garden Life and Times of Justin HusherThe Garden Life and Times of Justin Husherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027763141794117793noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901581921030179917.post-55388023947397945502012-11-13T12:01:00.000-05:002012-11-13T12:01:14.396-05:00North Georgia Candy Roaster: "What do I do with it?" AKA 8 Ways in 3 DaysIn my last blog, I resolved the question, "what is a North Georgia Candy Roaster?" Today, I will go one step further and attempt to answer, "what do I do with it?"<div>
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In most winter squash recipes, the winter squash is normally cooked before it goes into other recipes, as was the case with the fine 8.25 pound specimen of North Georgia Candy Roaster seen in my last blog. The simplest and oft-cited way to do this is to cut the squash in half, put it in a roasting pan with cut-side down, fill with 1/2 inch of water, cover with foil, and cook in the oven at 400 F until the flesh is able to be poked with a fork (typically 30-50 minutes).</div>
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After the flesh is cooked, it still needs scooped from the skin and mashed. I also like to use a colander to remove excess water. The 8.25 pounder resulted in 5.25 pounds of pumpkin meat, which is a 64% efficiency rate. From there, you can cook all sorts of stuff with it, as you will see in the 8 Ways in 3 Days Pictorial found below. Days 1 and 2 were consecutive, but Day 3 happened two weeks later.</div>
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After partaking in this absurdist exercise, I learned pumpkin is frequently paired with two holy trinities of flavor melanges. These include the cinnamon-ginger-allspice/nutmeg trinity, and the sage-butter-parmesan trinity. The cin-gin-all/nut is demonstrated in the creme brulee, flapjacks, donut, and loaf; whereas, the sage-butt-parm is found in both pasta dishes: the ravioli and gnocchi. There seems to be quite a few curry/chili recipes out there as well.</div>
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Recipes came from a variety of sources, including my mom, who's been making those raviolis for over 15 years now, the <i>Compleat Squash</i> book, <i>Heirloom Gardener</i> magazine, and this ka-razy interweb tool, called Google. However, the Vegan Pumpkin Donut with Ginger Glaze came from the recesses of my own donut-damaged mind.</div>
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It should be noted that the single 8.25 pound North Georgia Candy Roaster provided all the flesh for these eight meals perfectly to the point of being serendipitous. Enjoy the pictorial.</div>
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<b>DAY ONE</b></div>
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<b>DAY TWO</b></div>
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First off, it's been a while since my last post, and for that, I apologize. After publishing the Urban Farm Manifesto, I was burnt out from writing. Then after the burnout faded away, I had an unheard of new level of extremely high cynicism (mostly bureaucratic in its nature) that would have embittered my prose. So after a much needed lapse, I'm back.<br />
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Over the last three years, much of my farming career has been based on heirloom vegetable production, focusing on what I call wild-style vegetables. Wild-style generally means veggies that look really cool in addition to tasting amazing. Initially, this manifested itself with heirloom maters, and then was followed by quirky vegetables like Mexican Sour Gherkins and Chioggia beets. But alas, this year I ventured into new territory: winter squash.<br />
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With their almost endless variation of form, their mega-sprawling vines, and their hard shells that remind me of my own hard head, I fell in love this year with growing winter squash. That being said, selling the winter weirdos is a whole 'nother beast in its entirety; which as a farmer, the sale is the bottom line just as it is in any business. If I thought Green Zebras and Costoluto Genoveses inspired questions, then that thing pictured in the above photos was like a military interrogation complete with a single light bulb swaying from the ceiling and me strapped to a wooden chair, being beat with the words, "what is that?"<br />
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The conversation normally went something like this.<br />
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<b>Customer:</b> "What is that?"<br />
<b>Me:</b> "A winter squash."<br />
Blank stare.<br />
<b>Me:</b> "You know, like a cooking pumpkin with awesome flesh."<br />
Blank stare.<br />
<b>Customer:</b> "What do I do with it?"<br />
<b>Me:</b> "Anything that you would do normally with a cooking pumpkin: pie, creme brulee, pancakes, stew, soup, curry."<br />
<b>Customer while blank staring and nodding:</b> "Ooooh," typically followed by no sale. <br />
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Letting folks know that it's called a North Georgia Candy Roaster didn't help the situation and actually often seemed to make it worse. Sometimes, I would get the retort, "I'm from North Georgia, and I've never seen anything like that." To which, I would have no verbal response, but would think to myself, "maybe, you need to get out more often."<br />
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The rest of this blog will be a more formal attempt to answer the question, "what is that?" It will be very plant-nerd at times, but hopefully readable to the general public.<br />
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At this point, I hope we all understand that it's called a North Georgia Candy Roaster. Around the house, we were calling them, Mastodon Tusks. One of my more colorful customers gave them a flattering name, likening it to the world's largest male mammal's sex organ, which alliteration-ly, then consonance-ly, and lastly perfectly rhymes with wall clock.<br />
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The North Georgia Candy Roaster belongs to the giant plant family called the Cucurbitaceae. The Cucurbitaceae is an economic powerhouse of warm weather lovers that includes melons, cucumbers, squashes, pumpkins, and gourds.<br />
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The North Georgia Candy Roaster is further classified as a <i>Cucurbita maxima</i>, along with other freaks like the Blue Hubbard, Turk's Cap, and the Sea Squash of Italy. This entire group originated in South America. From there, the Maximas get sub-grouped into one of eight horticultural groups. Of which, the North Georgia Candy Roaster belongs to the Banana group. Like a banana, the Banana group is known for their elongated body types with tapered ends, awesome edibility, and light seed production. The Bananas are typically colored light blue and/or a fleshy, salmony pink.<br />
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My cultivar of North Georgia Candy Roaster came from Baker Creek Seeds and is apparently a smaller type. That being said, most of my crop still weighed in at a hardy 8-11 pounds. I was able to make eight separate meals from just one of my Candy Roasters. In my next blog, I will highlight those eight separate meals in order to answer the question,"what do I do with it?"<br />
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Major kudos goes out to the encyclopedic and gorgeous book, <i>The Compleat Squash, A Passionate Grower's Guide to Pumpkins, Squashes, and Gourds</i> by Amy Goldman for helping to fill my personal informational knowledge voids, and to John McGovern for helping with the heavy harvest.The Garden Life and Times of Justin Husherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027763141794117793noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901581921030179917.post-24119591120310213632012-03-01T13:46:00.007-05:002012-03-01T14:23:36.577-05:00CLEVO URBAN FARM MANIFESTO DISTROThe West Side Melt will be carrying both Urban Farm Manifestos and "A Farm in Cleveland?!" t-shirts throughout the month of March. I'm looking forward to the chicken fried steak melt on Saturday night!
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The perpetual givers at Root Cafe are stocked with 20 copies as of today.
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One of my favorite record stores in the entire world, My Mind's Eye, has a few.
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Visible Voice Books in Tremont
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfmgsGBmppRWnnnY87nSwkPLQ0G1S7C_VrYHLsF7YCo2kkPY5v8obs2PPrneUr4ONQnxFZRpD5LXO8CDhpxENFT63Csuu3CsDxz3vxrzHbFHYSLMTXqgj8TkbfuDH2B2Yn2uUGw6ype00/s1600/vv.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfmgsGBmppRWnnnY87nSwkPLQ0G1S7C_VrYHLsF7YCo2kkPY5v8obs2PPrneUr4ONQnxFZRpD5LXO8CDhpxENFT63Csuu3CsDxz3vxrzHbFHYSLMTXqgj8TkbfuDH2B2Yn2uUGw6ype00/s400/vv.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715006529978262738" border="0" /></a>At this point, distribution is obviously slanted towards Cleveland and its West Side. However, I'm looking to get the Manifesto into other cities, the East Side, and some Internet distribution. If anybody has any leads on cool independent bookshops or food co-ops, please be in touch. I'm particularly seeking help in Columbus, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Louisville, and all points in between. Thanks.The Garden Life and Times of Justin Husherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027763141794117793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901581921030179917.post-64657859204922270122012-02-27T22:33:00.013-05:002012-02-28T00:52:37.506-05:00FUEL FILLUP PICKUP PARTY aka the URBAN FARM MANIFESTO OPENING PARTYYou know you've gone to a Manifesto opening party when you see this sign.
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Visible Voice Books
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Merch Table Pre-party.
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Pre-party Urban Farm Manifesto Manuscript 1.
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Pre-party Urban Farm Manifesto Manuscript 2.
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This is my favorite photo of the evening.
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This is my favorite non-people based photo of the evening. Courtesy of Anna Wallace Birchler, as are most of the rest of the others in this blog.
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This is my favorite crowd photo. First, we got Urban Farm Manifesto artiste extraordinaire, Gabriel Bond completely shunning the camera. Somebody told me that he was grumbling something about, "no pictures, no pictures." Second, immediately to the right of Gabe's right shoulder is Chuck.
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Chuck told me a funny little story that went something like this (completely paraphrased).<span style="font-style: italic;"> I never heard of ya, til about 10 this morning when somebody sent me the video. Then like five minutes later you walked into the Root Cafe. You were getting cups or something. And I recognized ya cause of the shorts.</span> YESSS!!!
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To the right of Chuck, is Farmer Dan in the Pennsylvania River Woman Mustard-colored hat. He is definitely enjoying that sweet potato donut with Ohio Maple Syrup glaze! In the foreground directly south, we got Ms. Perkins, who is standing pretty in pink, and her crew, Maria and Paul. The little poof of a white cloud chef's hat is Adam Hughes.
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The redneck-lookin' dude in the camo hat is Root Cafe's owner, Bobbie. He rode his bike in the only snowstorm of 2012 for this thing! And last but not least at the end of the right of the page is Manifesto Brewmaster and Sofa King Killer Micro-coffee bean Roaster, Aaron Pearl, representing his own bad self and Origins Beanery.</p><p>So going back to Gabriel Bond as our focal point. Immediately to his left is LEAF Queenpin, Annie with a more German last name than thou. To Annie's left, methinks is Rob Burgoyne, who happens to be the LEAF Kingpin. Just below the LEAF folk is Ron Kretsch, who I just appreciated for showing up, but then he also bought a Manifesto. Thank you, Ronk! In the bottom left corner is Rob Resch; he'll fix your amp.
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Urban Farm Manifesto Artist, Gabriel Bond getting all snarky.
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I like this photo because there's two dudes eating donuts.
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I like this photo because I don't know most of the people in it.
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A good friend, farmhand, rocker, and masseuse, I call this one, "Jessica and Justin."
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I had no idea Tunnel Vision Hoop Founder, Todd Alexander is this tall. My marketing department should have never allowed me to take this photo.
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Birch on the beer. Aaron looking elsewhere.
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Maria and Chef Hughes on the sweet potato, one and twos.
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At the end of the evening beyond all the people folk who literally published the Urban Farm Manifesto. Mucho thanks goes out to these peeps: Ed Sotelo for hooking up the event. Visible Voice for hosting. Zappitelli's for all the delicious pizza. Adam Hughes for always coming through. Rockethub for the infrastructure. Origins Beanery for the Manifesto Strong Ale. And power fueler, Sarah Buck, who contributed majorly to the wine tab. Now for distribution!The Garden Life and Times of Justin Husherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027763141794117793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901581921030179917.post-54029268698929766472012-02-20T16:06:00.003-05:002012-02-20T17:02:54.067-05:00Fuel Fillup Pickup Party Prep<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVZ_XkxrRrKdxlCL3YtnnJubBZEHKlh_kWBrdpemapU3wL9I45VKWcnTJz-TSFtUMUu_4AKiIGYlGZb8R3ZKyCySrBGv4f9PCdi-4moUnMVLN7dbbc9T83wO9RO9y0sPxrPa2GsihjgOM/s1600/IMG_0249.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVZ_XkxrRrKdxlCL3YtnnJubBZEHKlh_kWBrdpemapU3wL9I45VKWcnTJz-TSFtUMUu_4AKiIGYlGZb8R3ZKyCySrBGv4f9PCdi-4moUnMVLN7dbbc9T83wO9RO9y0sPxrPa2GsihjgOM/s400/IMG_0249.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5711334609312524242" border="0" /></a>
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Just because the Manifesto has been to the presses and back, doesn't mean I've been sitting around unmanifesto-ing. In fact, the contrary is true. I always thought I'd be handnumbering a seven inch or LP at this point in my life, but instead, my first jaunt at handnumbering comes with this Urban Farm Manifesto. I'm glad I got it over with when the adrenalin from the Jakprints pickup was still flooding my emotions because the physical act of handnumbering 500 copies isn't as cool as it sounds. And I'm sorry if it got a little sloppy.
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Numbers 1-100 are the black 180 gram vinyl edition and come in black sharpie. Numbers 101-200 are the Sarah edition in turquoise sharpie. 201-300 are the Monsatan edition and come in red sharpie. 301-400 are the green edition in green sharpie. 401-500 are the Old as Dirt edition in brown sharpie.
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Besides handnumbering, I've been ripping five-count stacks of Corporate Food Still Sucks sticker packs. I've sweated over (but not into) boiling vats of Pennsylvania River Woman Mustard, the Manifesto Edition. I've bought a gallon of Ohio Maple Syrup for the Ohio Maple Syrup Glaze for the vegan sweet potato donuts. And the Manifesto Strong Ale has been bottled and is currently in the process of the bottle fermentation thing.
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Still on the "Prep To Do" list are sweet potato material acquisition and figuring out what we're pouring the beer into; though methinks, we're using half pint canning jars. If anybody knows where to get Cleveland sweet potatoes or even Ohio sweet potatoes right now, please let me know. Then Tomorrow or Wednesday, I think I'm doing an Urban Farm Manifesto podcast (whatever that is) with this fella named Doctor Fermento.
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Only three days left on the Rockethub pre-sale. Don't be shy.</p><p><a href="http://www.rockethub.com/projects/5451-old-husher-s-urban-farm-manifesto">http://www.rockethub.com/projects/5451-old-husher-s-urban-farm-manifesto
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</p>The Garden Life and Times of Justin Husherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027763141794117793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901581921030179917.post-4253181874303925902012-02-02T10:02:00.003-05:002012-02-02T10:52:31.872-05:00GOAL ACHIEVED! PRE-SALE STILL ON!In eight furious days of crowdfunding, the Urban Farm Manifesto was able to achieve its stated goal of $900! That's pretty amazing, and I thank the diverse group of friends, strangers, and family, who've contributed to the success of the Rockethub campaign.
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That being said, the price tag on this entire project including artists' fees, marketing, printing, and Ohio Maple Syrup is $2,100. I absolutely have no problem footing the rest of the $1,200. I believe in this project 101% and would have paid for the entire thing, if necessary.
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What I do mind is holding inventory. So far, I still have 478 units of Manifesto unaccounted for, 97 limited edition posters awaiting walls, and nine jars of Pennsylvania River Woman Mustard looking to be slathered on sandwiches. Therefore, pre-sale is still on!
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">From Where I Could Use Help</span>
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Though, I'll take a rocket fueling where I can get it. There are a couple of generalized groups whose support I'd like to see. These are my Coastal Peeps and Cleveland's Policy People.
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Coastal Peeps</span>
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I know out of sight is out of mind, but I'd like to see some more fuelings from my folks all up and down the West Coast and Brooklyn. Though land is much more affordable in the Midwest, the zoning/sales/bureaucracy issues are the same whether it's Cleveland or Berkley. Thanks again to Scot Pansing for being the first coastal fueler.
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Cleveland's Policy People</span>
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This is a huge group of traditionally tight-moneyed people in the governmental sector and private non-profit sector, whose general jobs are to promote all things green like urban farms and sustainability. Personally, I think every one of them should pre-order a SUPER COMBO, consisting of "A Farm In Cleveland?!" t-shirt and an Urban Farm Manifesto.
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So far, though emails have been sent to the Office of Sustainability, Neighborhood Progress Inc, and the Cuyahoga County branch of the OSU Extension Office about the Manifesto, no individuals within these groups (or the groups themselves) have contributed. Tomorrow's payday and maybe I'm being hasty. I would really love to eat my words on this one and owe all of Cleveland's Policy People an apology. I wish I could conclude with a name-dropping "thank you" right now, but I literally can't.
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Therefore and to re-iterate, pre-sale is still on! Thank you.
<a href="http://rockethub.com/projects/5451-old-husher-s-urban-farm-manifesto">http://rockethub.com/projects/5451-old-husher-s-urban-farm-manifesto</a>The Garden Life and Times of Justin Husherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027763141794117793noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901581921030179917.post-87595597240977391342012-02-01T07:53:00.006-05:002012-02-01T12:49:37.959-05:00THE URBAN FARM MANIFESTO AND ROCKETHUB<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd9z8YxUOgu-Nj7xv2n_kiBPDAhpDg6RVQ429hEm9CIUzkvurdPPgzD2pvpjvBDe2nm-K7MGgDeu3Z0R1aKAbMOfaVkZHKxOEPFxWAOqaNsmk0mA5f17-LUWPQqeAapyd7J4HHn2w6VYc/s1600/CrowdfundingPic2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 136px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd9z8YxUOgu-Nj7xv2n_kiBPDAhpDg6RVQ429hEm9CIUzkvurdPPgzD2pvpjvBDe2nm-K7MGgDeu3Z0R1aKAbMOfaVkZHKxOEPFxWAOqaNsmk0mA5f17-LUWPQqeAapyd7J4HHn2w6VYc/s400/CrowdfundingPic2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704152910274792690" border="0" /></a>
It definitely appears that some of you have already taken notice, but for good measure, please checkout the video. I'm well on my way to my financial goal of $900. However, I am a far cry from my per unit sales goal of 100 units (so far 18 Manifestos are accounted for).
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Please note, this is not a charity case.
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<a href="http://rockethub.com/projects/5451-old-husher-s-urban-farm-manifesto"></a></p>The Garden Life and Times of Justin Husherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027763141794117793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901581921030179917.post-24158129868296856222012-01-30T15:39:00.009-05:002012-01-30T19:13:28.900-05:00Thank you Beta Testers and First Taste Takers!Last week, I fairly quietly released a Rockethub campaign for my Urban Farm Manifesto, due out on February 25th. A handful of folks stepped right up to the plate, and I'd like to recognize them right now.
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Chris Cowen took the first plunge, pledging $30 before the campaign "officially" started, having heard about it from the Visible Voice website.
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In slight anger because Chris beat her to the punch, Sarah was next. However at that point, the campaign had "officially" started. If my readership doesn't know by now, Sarah is my wife. Numbered copies 101-200 are dubbed the "Sarah" edition after her and are numbered with a turquoise Sharpie.
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Then a whole 'nother Sarah, Sarah Perkins hit the ball out of the park with a Produce Prepaid purchase. For the record, Ms. Perkins has been my best customer for two years now.
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From there, it was a one-two-three punch from major players in the Cleveland cultural scene. First, it was bicycling/neighborhood sage, John McGovern, who as a result has helped start Old Husher's Heirloom Seeds. Two, LEAF's head-honcho, Rob Burgoyne, put in an order for summer plants. And three, Lakewood's Root Cafe has given me my first paying gig on the coveted lecture circuit.
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The dude behind the best micro-roasted coffee in Cleveland (Aaron Pearl's Origins Beanery) followed Perkins into the land of Produce Prepaids.
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Then something different happened. A stranger named Camille George bought a Manifesto copy. It appears we have mutual FB friends, but not even that extensively. Thank you Ms. George for taking a leap of faith. And if we have met, and I just don't remember, I'm sorry.
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My cuz, Jamie Bowers, showed her foodie-ness with the first purchase of the very limited edition Mustard and Manifesto combo.
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One of my oldest school friends, whose former bass guitar I steel shred to this day, Scot Pansing, took the Manifesto coastal. He even thanked me for posting the video on Youtube.
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Representing Toledo, Brian Clarke double-bonus-ed with the Heirloom Plant Pack and the somewhat risque 70's-styled poster from the Manifesto. Brian, I'll be glad to personally work with you (if need be) on a pickup date since you'll be coming in from out of town for pickup.
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Today, both, Laura Mintz and Chris Lancaster joined the Manifesto campaign.
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Last, but not least is the truest of all beta testers. This person is Sonia DiFiore, who is so beta test that she couldn't even log into Rockethub and opted to send a check instead.
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In this fifth installment of my book review series is a little of what I was referring to in my last blog about expanding the horizons of this blog overall. Back in the fall, I had a chance to hear author, Michael H Shuman, speak at the Sustainable Cleveland Conference. With its witty name, I had heard of his "Small-Mart Revolution" for a few years, but had no conceptual idea of its breadth and scope (or even that Shuman was the author) until his speech where he interwove "far-out" ideas like local stock exchanges with a sense of reason and we-can-do-it enthusiasm.
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The Small-Mart Revolution covers a lot of territory. There's a tale of irony that helps to make the book a pleasant read. However, at its soul is a somewhat fierce "Local First" mandate that manifests itself through the book in an epic battle called TINA vs. LOIS (though Shuman specifically states that the Small-Mart Revolution is not about us vs. them mentalities).</p><p> Throughout the book there are examples of how to integrate "Local First" into every day life and how to hopefully integrate it more into our future lives. There's some numbers in there, but nothing too daunting. A major take-home are multiplier effects to be discussed later. At about 75% in, Shuman uses an economic tool called "leakages" to determine to where money "leaks" out of a community. And then makes suggestions from the data to slow/stop such "leakages." Ultimately to me, this book is about the decentralization of power through the use and not-use of money.
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Battle of TINA vs. LOIS</span></p><p>Right from the start, Shuman sets the stage for an ongoing battle between TINA and LOIS. These ladies are in reference to business, that for me can best be described as mindsets. TINA stands for "there is no alternative." TINA is desperation; whereas, LOIS means "locally owned, import substitution," and represents vision and hope. TINA is characterized as multi-national corporations who use false promises for abatements. TINA's new jobs are often highly visible to the public and often there's alot of them (like 400 new factory workers with benefits), which means politicians love TINA with all her ribbon-cutting ceremonies and such.
</p><p>This means that TINA essentially steals abatement and investment dollars from LOIS, which doubly sucks because LOIS accounts for more jobs in the USA than TINA; and TINA could really care less about your clean lake or school system in a bottom line society.</p><p>Plus imagine all of the hassle going to a EZ Clean Green Drycleaning ribbon cutting, then to a new vertically-integrated, beet sugar rum, micro-distillery opening, then to the artesanal goat cheese place, then the small theater that does nothing but black and white films, and then to the vinyl record store that actually has local bands on new Cleveland-pressed vinyl. A politician's hand would hurt after all that ribbon cutting.
</p><p style="font-weight: bold;">Buying Local First</p><p>This is the simplest of The Small-Mart Revolution's tenets. Lucky for farmer-me that buying and eating local foods is one of the easiest money changing aspects that people can embrace. Then there are other simple things like banking with a small bank or credit union or installing solar/wind power (in this regards you're in essence buying power from yourself, and thus decentralizing power). Walking or biking also count because the transportation industry is the most non-localized industry in the USA.</p><p>Then there's some medium-difficult paradigm-shifter suggestions like local rewards cards (see Supportland card above) or business-to-business lending. And then there's some truly wild style, future-forward, yet to be embraced, but it seems awesome ideas like local currencies and stock exchanges.</p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Multipliers and Leakages</span></p><p>So when you buy locally, there's this thing that's called the multiplier effect that happens afterwards. Basically, your money circulates around your community again and again in both dollar amounts and affected parties when you buy locally (stats in book). So it's totally worth waiting at Melt that extra 20 minutes with an extra beer in hand, than go to that lecherous Panera/Jimmy John's across the street; or go to Root Cafe, instead of Caribou.</p><p>From there, Shuman uses his economic tool of leakages in order to identify how and where-to money leaves a community. This is to identify and create future localized industries in areas that would ultimately have the most impact on the community/region. This is like a one, two punch for localness. One, you create new regional economic outputs. Then, two (and this is the proverbial pinball jackpot), you get those multiplier effects double-bonusing because of the subsequent dollar inputs. Thus creating a new, more self-sufficient community/region.</p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Conclusion</span>
</p><p>Throughout the book, there a ton of ideas, stats, and stories. In all honesty, I've been wanting to read this book for all of my adult life (though it hasn't existed for most of that time frame). I want to buy multiple copies and start a book club, go to Slow Money Cleveland meetings, and celebrate Cleveland's Slow Money already been accomplished-ments.
</p><p>Therefore, I recommend it for any body who considers themselves a forward thinker, is looking for entrepreneurial business ideas, cares about their community, is in economic development/urban planning, likes economics, or is seeking an ideology in a hectic world.
</p>The Garden Life and Times of Justin Husherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027763141794117793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901581921030179917.post-657868244248532282012-01-06T14:04:00.010-05:002012-01-06T15:20:52.908-05:00INTO THE 2012 (pronounced twenty, twelve)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjISlQauNe6W_SD4Gyx1DH8roq0VqqiYA22Zm7alpefixwsQ4r71p8cFYp8u5fkJafP7jIzu4Io3FguG-Mz3sf5BqMyVjWt9KLnQgCTDgOILSiEFLLg113FWM524RqFyF-M6nQSJ5z5eMo/s1600/baker+creek+seed+order.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjISlQauNe6W_SD4Gyx1DH8roq0VqqiYA22Zm7alpefixwsQ4r71p8cFYp8u5fkJafP7jIzu4Io3FguG-Mz3sf5BqMyVjWt9KLnQgCTDgOILSiEFLLg113FWM524RqFyF-M6nQSJ5z5eMo/s400/baker+creek+seed+order.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5694600874656288018" border="0" /></a>
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As I write my first blog post of 2012, I sit in shorts; I'm wearing my chacos. It's 52 degrees in Cleveland in JANUARY! And I feel giddy. I just ordered 1,000 crowns of asparagus and just received my Baker Creek Heirloom seed order (see jpeg). Furthermore, I just got done sulfuring Old Husher's Perennial Expansion Farm, which I didn't expect to get to til about March/April. So as I move into my third year of Cleveland farming, I oddly feel a little relaxed for the first time since starting this endeavor despite my fire hydrant having disappeared over two months ago.
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That being said, in 2012, I will be expanding my horizons of both my business and blog. Subsequently, I am no longer an urban farmer. Rather now, I am an urban farm entrepreneur. What this symbolizes is a specific departure from thinking that the growing and selling of vegetables would be my only/main product; instead, that notion has been replaced with one that states the growing and selling of vegetables will be a major product line with future product lines to be added.
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This new found business clarity can be directly attributed to the insane success of my small batch, 2011 Gray Market Edition of my Pennsylvania River Woman Mustard. This has caused me to jump on the commercial-canning-is-needed-in-Cleveland-pronto bandwagon despite my stronger and preferred belief system in food sovereignty laws. I envision a vertically integrated boutique mustard in about two years.
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In terms of blog expansion, this will focus on two new areas of blog subject material, roughly described as my influences and schtuff that I think is cool locally/regionally/Ohioally as it pertains to small and regional business. I may even do profiles on other Cleveland farmers (but probably not).</p>
In conclusion of my first blog post of 2012, I would like to give a shout out to Cool Cleveland Dot Com for using Sarah and I as models under the "Shop Local Cleveland Clothing" section of their fine website. See here:
<a href="http://www.coolcleveland.com/blog/2011/11/shoplocal-gift-guide/">http://www.coolcleveland.com/blog/2011/11/shoplocal-gift-guide/.</a>
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Now if anybody has seen me lately and was wondering. Yes, I am growing out my beard as if I were writing a manifesto.The Garden Life and Times of Justin Husherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027763141794117793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901581921030179917.post-30883046333861465802011-12-08T09:09:00.005-05:002011-12-08T10:54:52.638-05:00BACK IN BLACK! "A FARM IN CLEVELAND?!" T-SHIRT<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfeevoAlJ8aCeqoZdxt1JN1jizH1j64XdXhxjCDWXv8OtzM2Ykgq540vPDgHAO8HWIOpJKBw8aBTsWqy2SD1ZrNi7iPGxK-3yy3OBOTE8hZQbk0N4H7h-b2YgymcB7fm19MzBXOITZFOg/s1600/a+farm+in+cleveland+back+in+black+t+shirt.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 354px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfeevoAlJ8aCeqoZdxt1JN1jizH1j64XdXhxjCDWXv8OtzM2Ykgq540vPDgHAO8HWIOpJKBw8aBTsWqy2SD1ZrNi7iPGxK-3yy3OBOTE8hZQbk0N4H7h-b2YgymcB7fm19MzBXOITZFOg/s400/a+farm+in+cleveland+back+in+black+t+shirt.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683759945156953554" border="0" /></a>
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I am totally stoked to publicly announce the "back in black" second edition of the "A Farm In Cleveland?!" t-shirt. It took a year, but the unbleached white tees are almost sold-out. Please note, that this second edition still bears the infamous "?" because a farm in Cleveland is still a preposterous idea.
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So why black? Initially, my hunch was that the general sentiment of locavores/policy people/farmers would favor an unbleached white tee for the a la naturalness of it...and there was some of that. But there was a lot more of "do you have it in black?" I caught on pretty quickly and vowed never again to deny my heavy metal roots by printing a white shirt.
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Plus, this is Cleveland. We ain't very flashy. Subliminally or consciously, we all know the beer belly slimming attributes of a black tee. And the practicality of going with anything while being able to hide stains can't be beat!</p>
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Apart from the back in blackness of them, the shirts are still the same ol' 8-color print. There are men's and women's styles. The women's are printed on Bella brand, fitted, made in the USA, organic cotton. Whilst, the men's are on Heavy Gildan cotton tees (like many of my metal tees). They were screened at Clevo's Jakprints, whose professionalism and turnaround time are awesome.
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Through the holiday season, Lakewood's brother-to-the-farmer, Root Cafe will have a ready stock of shirts ($20) for you and all of your loved ones. I will also be selling these wares at the Gordon Square Holiday Market on December 17th from 10AM - 2PM in the Gordon Square Arcade. Being that I'm an all-access farmer, if those options don't work, contact me at jhusher@hotmail.com to arrange something. Heck, I could probably even deliver for anybody thinking of multiple shirts.
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And if you're out of the state, or out of the country, believe me, the irony/hope of "A Farm In Cleveland?!" t-shirt will not be lost in translation. And for that reason, I also have Paypal available.
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<p>The Garden Life and Times of Justin Husherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027763141794117793noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901581921030179917.post-66908892518125228302011-11-21T12:48:00.005-05:002011-11-21T13:25:58.570-05:00My First Path in Two Years!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdlG1fgTABT9o_5qbJRkAauyW5uHnaCkefNxs2rRsMYbh7Fte9lflDWR1pzz4QdnLKekiOcGUp1h-DoDi9q403LKVSTM0Z7zGCdRyk4xjxRJSBDXf2oXOcqsiFwnKwu2a65iTuvhTzipE/s1600/Photo0080.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdlG1fgTABT9o_5qbJRkAauyW5uHnaCkefNxs2rRsMYbh7Fte9lflDWR1pzz4QdnLKekiOcGUp1h-DoDi9q403LKVSTM0Z7zGCdRyk4xjxRJSBDXf2oXOcqsiFwnKwu2a65iTuvhTzipE/s400/Photo0080.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677507793549847650" border="0" /></a>
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Some people get all OCD when planning to farm/garden/grow. Often, pathways are the first set of infrastructure built on a farm. Quickly followed with very even precision-measured rows. I'm still working on my rows, but alas, after last week I'm proud to say that I have my first pathway!
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The path sits right behind the fence-line, facing W 130th (the main street). Construction materials were cardboard and woodchips, plundered from Factory Direct's dumpster and Mount Woodchip respectively.
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The path's primary purpose is weed suppression with three sub-goals for that weed suppression.
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One: to make it easier to use the fence as a trellis.
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Two: to give me more access to my drip irrigation header line.
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And Three (I don't like admitting this one): to "neaten up" the frontage in hopes of somewhat pacifying the thorn-in-my-side, Pete GagePro.
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I'm certain I'll reach two of those three sub-goals, but there's no telling with Pete. Let's cross our fingers.
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As always, Subee-1 performed marvelously.The Garden Life and Times of Justin Husherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027763141794117793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901581921030179917.post-21297241428810031872011-11-04T15:32:00.007-04:002011-11-04T16:42:47.577-04:00The Last 2 Weeks (and that's all I got to show for it)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqVEdPU3000arcqS6Do06JWASnvjcpUO5BTXPgiMsT7Dl1M4j2FdA34C5k84th8xNt1VXbCM2GFL-bl6_WpDcwFMiqt0ep5xbiEsZ5MWYZLg0KzjcPfiSZYu3__ilnAatrZj9liwEPXjg/s1600/Sunchokin.jpg"> <img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqVEdPU3000arcqS6Do06JWASnvjcpUO5BTXPgiMsT7Dl1M4j2FdA34C5k84th8xNt1VXbCM2GFL-bl6_WpDcwFMiqt0ep5xbiEsZ5MWYZLg0KzjcPfiSZYu3__ilnAatrZj9liwEPXjg/s400/Sunchokin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671225867652334594" border="0" /></a>
<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0PcctN0mRvmdjNWAHkdPrraal7gE-KQtfGmYFLqjXlSgGhk54zu27gLl_7ObRnW65sIilF-CYj6_f_e5RKCDQUA0tXLtnCHC9JvxF0sMAVh_Qf3ytzV1YVegx48HyNR6sAVl9YMe9bDo/s1600/Garlica.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0PcctN0mRvmdjNWAHkdPrraal7gE-KQtfGmYFLqjXlSgGhk54zu27gLl_7ObRnW65sIilF-CYj6_f_e5RKCDQUA0tXLtnCHC9JvxF0sMAVh_Qf3ytzV1YVegx48HyNR6sAVl9YMe9bDo/s400/Garlica.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671225866942877634" border="0" /></a>One of the major frustrations with farming is the extreme delayed gratification. Them photos above represent the last two weeks of my life. When I compare my thigh/wrist/hand soreness to those photos of pink flags and flat ground, I just think to myself, "really?"
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Of course, that bottom photo of garlic barely shows off the jackpot asphalt that I was again lucky enough to hit in one year's time (let's just hope I don't get nearly arrested again when making drops in friendly neighborhood apartment dumspters). The land in the top photo is two thousand square feet of sunchokes at my new Perennial Expansion Farm.
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That land had never been worked, and I hit a similar jackpot of rocks and sub-boulders. This time there was no guilt associated with worm carnage as I found only one in the entire two thousand feet. The pockmarks left from the removal of sub-boulders will be filled with Old Husher's brand of worm inoculant/castings, complete with worms and delicious organic goodies.
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So speaking back to delayed gratification, it should be noted for educational sake that I won't even see a garlic scape until June or a sunchoke tuber 'til the fall of 2012, which is time enough to erase these feelings of exhaustion. It's no wonder hardly anyone is planting new orchards around here (coupled with a lack of land tenure).
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Now taking a gander at that sunchoke plot, you should notice a heaping pile of Mount Trashmore that dwarfs my Subaru. It's an illegal dump that is the property of Ashland Chemical. Apparently, Cleveland has cited Ashland, but the Mountain remains. Weird pickups dumping, and even the occasional semi unloading. Meanwhile, people hop the fence and sort for scrap. Given these conditions, don't think I use the term post-ghetto wasteland lightly. I specifically chose my new plot with a view for juxtaposition.
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Thanks goes out to Ed Sotelo, who spent three hours of his life de-cloving 20 pounds of garlic, Mike Birchler and Kevin Orr, who each also spent three hours of their lives soil-prepping the sunchoke site, and Bruce Cormack, who filled the void of sunchoke tuber seed stock with 15 gallons of tubers (three 5-gallon buckets worth of sunchokes, if you were wondering what "15 gallons of tubers" meant).The Garden Life and Times of Justin Husherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027763141794117793noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901581921030179917.post-62089408335619743002011-10-27T11:10:00.010-04:002011-10-27T11:35:26.679-04:00Summer 2011 in Tweets<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtoks9hW5ShGptIwFDwxFvlkgbv-51HicSe8kvxDnrTXZOSnqmZoy4TnabqaW4Ru55G4VTMLDwSJ0qeuYFpLY7tqe1STntrv-bGoaQaBMMqsiJuEa3H2kwnba7CFAAmLwOHiQYUwhyphenhyphenLTI/s1600/richardgere80sjoke.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 354px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtoks9hW5ShGptIwFDwxFvlkgbv-51HicSe8kvxDnrTXZOSnqmZoy4TnabqaW4Ru55G4VTMLDwSJ0qeuYFpLY7tqe1STntrv-bGoaQaBMMqsiJuEa3H2kwnba7CFAAmLwOHiQYUwhyphenhyphenLTI/s400/richardgere80sjoke.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668190215894314290" border="0" /></a>
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either need to work on better spacing, or conversely better thinning.<o:p></o:p></span></h3> <h3><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;">I could use a trailer at this point in my life too.<o:p></o:p></span></h3> <h3><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h3> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="">BS<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Some restaurants are full of total ish.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Momocho allegedly told me that they “wouldn’t know what to do with 10 pounds of ROYGBIV cherry tomatoes.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Three Birds allegedly told me they “have a garden out back where we grow all that (regarding basil).”<span style=""> </span>Upon inspection no garden was found.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Deagan’s allegedly wants a three month production schedule in advance.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">My second year in, and already I’m competing with the big boys, Chef’s Garden.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">I actually like competition so that last statement shouldn’t be in the BS section, but I didn’t know where else to put it.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="">DRAMA AND RANT<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Pete Gagepro is still harassing me.<span style=""> </span>The City of Cleveland still won’t commit to anything long-term and took four months to return my lease.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">I’m more worried about Cleveland’s slackadaisicalness, than Pete’s neurosis.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">The City says they want orchards, but won’t give us long-term leases or sell us our land affordably.<span style=""> </span>That’s a mixed message.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">What the City needs to realize is that they are training us to move (for cheaper land in the ‘burbs/rural lands) with piddly 5-year leases.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Conversely, there are some hardcore poser/slackers in our Local Food Scene.<span style=""> </span>Self-absorbed and selfish, these folks make us all look bad.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">That’s why urban homestead laws, like the one I wrote about in this blog, <a href="http://thegardenlifeandtimesofjustinhusher.blogspot.com/2011/02/cleveland-urban-homestead-law.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">http://thegardenlifeandtimesofjustinhusher.blogspot.com/2011/02/cleveland-urban-homestead-law.html</span></a> <span style=""> </span>are crucial.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" 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Husherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027763141794117793noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901581921030179917.post-17437293674952836992011-06-21T16:24:00.016-04:002011-06-26T22:32:50.945-04:00The Importance of Urban Farmers Selling at Urban Farmers' Markets<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaoz4wGceIM5U9GHtIjHTon5AuM2hbQRudM5L46CRd4pOGvPO4IeLvAGCIoY2Jg2C134Af1cSxJlh4hJIwY5sLyHDSVkwiJYSUqTiHA5veuV8arC6J7g7k1kJSErbqiLFO1AZHRWYGTBU/s1600/IMG00026-20110618-1117.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaoz4wGceIM5U9GHtIjHTon5AuM2hbQRudM5L46CRd4pOGvPO4IeLvAGCIoY2Jg2C134Af1cSxJlh4hJIwY5sLyHDSVkwiJYSUqTiHA5veuV8arC6J7g7k1kJSErbqiLFO1AZHRWYGTBU/s400/IMG00026-20110618-1117.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622721556208342610" border="0" 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Now that the farm market season is hopefully upon all of us, I'm going to discuss a topic near and dear to my heart and that is the importance of urban farmers actually selling at urban farmers' markets. I know this sounds like a no-brainer. However, there is a major urban farmer contingent, who thinks and acts otherwise. My friend, Gabe, likened it to one of those rock bands that puts out album after album and never tours.
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In this blog, I will discuss how urban farmers' markets affect economic development, local food access, and the basic reasoning as to why some urban farmers ignore urban farm markets. But not in that order. Also to my discredit, this is all my opinion and none of it has been quantified (Sorry, I've been watching way too many X-Files lately, and perhaps is also the reason that I think the City of Cleveland is gunning for my farm).
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In the insider world of urban farming, there's a lot of discussion as to how a farmer makes the most sales (and subsequent money) with the least amount of work. It's the classic efficiency scenario that corporations and MBA programs use to rationalize all sorts of stuff. Most of these discussions eventually lean towards restaurant sales being a far superior means of earning money than selling at farmers' markets in the inner city.
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And in my experience, this is completely true. Selling a whole cooler of 20 heads of lettuce at $2.50 a head is a pretty awesome feeling. It normally only takes about ten minutes of transaction time, plus gas and driving expense, and it often leads to other sales. In modern capitalism, this approach is heralded.
</p><p>Let me clarify. I sell to restaurants for the money. I sell at urban farmers' markets for the people. Arguably, the two main tenets for urban farming are economic development and healthy food access. I believe that the practice of urban farmers only selling to restaurants is detrimental for long term economic development and healthy food access for all people. For all people being the key phrase here.</p><p>The next statement may shock and offend some people. I think it has been alluded to many times over, but never formally stated. Food should not be about class. However and unfortunately, food is about class.</p><p>Let me clarify. I love my restaurant sales. They seriously add-up. But when I make those restaurant sales, I know it's doubtful that any child, let alone an economically disadvantaged one, or even an economically disadvantaged adult will ever eat any of my produce at that restaurant. This is by no means the fault of the restaurants. I feel like they are the very necessary glamorous public relations part of the whole local food scene.</p><p>This is why I also sell at an urban farmers' market. You literally have no idea who your clientele will be. I've had city attorneys, lots of single moms, every once in a while, children (especially when I have Mexican Sour Gherkins). The age and racial diversity at Gordon Square Farmer's Market is almost as diverse as Gordon Square itself. The opportunity for the public (especially the economically disadvantaged) to randomly see other members of the public making mostly cash money out of local resources can be inspiring to others in the economic sense.</p><p>Seeing is still believing, and that's why being seen at a farmers' market is important. Otherwise, these folks riding the bus are just seeing a farmer work/sweat their crop to no readily seen cash benefit. Which in the words of my mom, "looks like alotta work."</p><p>In addition, if as an urban farmer, you want to be supportive of the whole social justice/healthy food access issues, then it is also necessary to sell at urban farmers' markets and food desserts. For most micro-scale farmers, this is the only way to access many of the government/agency food assistance programs. The corollary to that is these urban farmers' markets are the only ways some individuals (with or without assistance) access anything close to fresh produce. Blowing people's minds with a literal rainbow's array of grape tomatoes with the exception of the color blue is an equally great feeling as the $50 restaurant sale.</p><p>Farmers' markets have been part of close-knit, interwoven communities since we've stopped hunting and gathering. Middle-eastern medinas and Europe's very artisanal craft food stores are lingering examples of this in modern day. It is something that seems rooted into us. The general camaraderie and technique-sharing, and capitalistic benchmarking are all side effects of farmers' market participation (the same can also be said about sunburns).</p><p>Lastly, I've also heard that the want for anonymity is another seemingly valid reason to not sell at urban farmers' markets. To me, this is a completely valid argument as long as it is not inversely negated with incessant Facebook updates.
</p><p>That's basically it. The picture up top is of my dad and I last father's day weekend at Gordon Square. This week (tomorrow) I will have have soil blocked-beets (they're long and thin), the last garlic scapes, green onions, the last of the speckled like a trout lettuce, Red Russian and Lacinato kale, and my first chard. Food to the people!
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In my quest to educate the public in order to increase my sales, I feel that I need to bring the garlic scape into the populist's light of day. Thereby in this blog, I will attempt to answer the question, what is a garlic scape?
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Simply put, a garlic scape is a young and ideally still tender flowering stalk of the garlic plant. For years now, garlic scapes have enjoyed popularity amongst the elusive foodie crowd. But now more and more, regular folks and off-the-grid types are getting into this under-utilized, near equal form of garlic.
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To me, a scape looks incredibly similar to a curled green snake. As such, that first photo is called, "Darth Vader Under the Influence of Medusa," which is really just a silly way to highlight a $2 bundle of Old Husher's Garlic Scapes. The second photo up there is of the garlic scape in its natural environment. As folklore goes, it is said that you harvest a garlic scape after the weight of the flowering structure (the snake head thingy) weighs enough to curl the scape downward. Subsequently, the garlic scapes in the photo are ready to be harvested and sub-subsequently have been harvested since said photo has been taken.
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Blah, blah, blah, enough of the history lesson already, what's a garlic scape taste like? Unsurprisingly, garlic scapes taste a lot like regular garlic, just a little bit mellower. That being said, if you were to make raw garlic scape and almond pesto (recipe to follow), you'd still be able to ward off vampires and future lovers for about six hours.
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In terms of usage, the garlic scape is extremely versatile, just like its regular bulbed form. Often a puree is made and simply tossed in pasta. Or scapes can be chopped up and used in stir-frys or omelets. Garlic scape and almond pesto is downright amazing and can be used on sandwiches, as a chip-dip, as a pasta sauce and so forth. If you're getting a hankering of an inclination to get out the food processor and hear it go "v-r-r-r, v-r-r-r (with rolled r's like you took German in high school), then here's the recipe.
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Garlic Scape and Almond</span>
</p><ul><li>10 garlic scapes</li><li>1/3 to 1/2C parmeson</li><li>1/3C slivered almonds (toasted if you want to get crazy)</li><li>olive oil to your preferred consistency (a 1/2C is a good start)</li><li>Salt to taste from the sea or otherwise (this is for the people!)</li></ul><p>
Food processorize, or Blenderize, or Mortar and Pestle-ize (in which case chop everything up fairly fine first) all the above ingredients. Adding the olive oil slowly to desired consistency. Enjoy.
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Thank you for reading Garlic Scape 101: What's a Garlic Scape?</p>The Garden Life and Times of Justin Husherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027763141794117793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901581921030179917.post-44300206960941562712011-05-10T17:11:00.004-04:002011-05-10T18:18:31.422-04:00Urban Farming Colloquialisms<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXeUsE12Q-lEPPcfv4BRf2jd5FC8Fj3aC_qfN8BUL4mqccKWMQYiGImk648VMPFXTCTw7qaUZu0luYOITCVnkLZCAYR4cnLbxPNCDguVOx2q2cNQFxV_HZirQ4GzYgTGddabfDThWNets/s1600/clandestine+chicken+coop.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXeUsE12Q-lEPPcfv4BRf2jd5FC8Fj3aC_qfN8BUL4mqccKWMQYiGImk648VMPFXTCTw7qaUZu0luYOITCVnkLZCAYR4cnLbxPNCDguVOx2q2cNQFxV_HZirQ4GzYgTGddabfDThWNets/s400/clandestine+chicken+coop.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605206839682435122" border="0" /></a>
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A few months ago over the course of one week, I heard three separate urban farmisms for the first time that all meant the same thing in context. These three colloquialisms were "redneck tech," "ghetto tech," and my personal favorite that epitomizes the Cleveland Urban Farm scene, "hoodbilly." Hoodbilly was courtesy of Gordon Square Farm Market Manager, Josh Klein.
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Conceptually, all these terms mean doing something on the cheap and often with recycled/salvaged/repurposed materials. The aesthetics are somewhat anti-suburban. You get bragging rights for how much something didn't cost and bonus points for duct tape and pallets. Most often, function triumphs over fashion. This ain'ta Martha Stewart chicken coop. This is hoodbillyism.
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The pictures up top are perfectly hoodbilly. The first pic is a clandestine chicken coop. You know it's clandestine because of the pirate flag. In Cleveland, would-be neighbor narcs can easily be bribed to look the other way for a few eggs. Surprisingly, the pallet construction blends well in the background with the other fence.
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The second and third pics are what I think Lakewood doesn't have in mind with it's "Keep Lakewood Beautiful" campaign. Nonetheless, we got five gallon buckets from the Beer Engine, broken shovel-handle tent posts, duct tape, salvaged planks from some court between 84th and 85th, and twine! Even the greenhouse plastic came second hand from a commercial operation out in Oberlin.
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Finally, the last picture is of a retaining wall at the base of my storage container.
Again, the planks were salvaged, the woodchips were free, the yard bags re-used, and subsequent leaf humus and dirt were hand dug. However, some of my hoodbilly brethren may call me a sellout because the stakes were store bought. To that I say, all good hoodbillys know how to choose their battles and stakes were just not in the free-cycled cards that week.
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Stay hoodbilly, yall!The Garden Life and Times of Justin Husherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027763141794117793noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901581921030179917.post-2339115401444582442011-04-29T18:35:00.010-04:002011-06-16T11:38:12.254-04:00Some Good Lookin' Dudes Rockin' Old Husher's GearThrough the years from time to time, I get a jpeg sent to my personal email with a picture of somebody, somewhere rockin' the "A Farm in Cleveland?!" t-shirt. Here's some of those jpegs.
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First up is Kevin Glutton, sporting the tee on a warm Maui beach. Kevin has been bonelessing around Cleveland for as long as anyone can remember, plays bass and sings in the appropriately named Gluttons, and is a fairly regular farmhand at Old Husher's Farm. Sorry Ladies, this one's taken.
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Last, but not least, is Earache Wallace. He's a very well assimilated Portlander via Ohio. His skills include rock n roll poster art and being one of the best psychedelic/metal crossover guitarists this or that side of the Mississippi. If Kylesa ever needed a third guitarist to do a modern version of "Freebird," then Earache would be my first suggestion. Until then, Earache is earning his teaching degree in art and is looking forward to teaching hessians the fine craft of silk screening.
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On 4/20 of 2011, the Cleveland Farmer's Summit commenced at AMP 150 to cold chill with Executive Chef Ellis Cooley. I am fairly certain it was one of those no photos nights. Annabel Khouri of Bay Branch Farm organized the evening and kudos to her. Also in attendance were Turning Point, Erie's Edge, Basil and Beyond, a newcomer named Laura, George Remington Steele, and Sonia DiFiore, who just bought land in Oberlin for her blueberry farm, whose name is unbeknownst to me!
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Now, AMP 150 is in a Marriott, basically next to the Cleveland Airport. So despite AMP 150's near-guru status amongst locavores, given these precepts, I had my reservations. Rest assured, by the end of the evening, not only was I blown away by my micro-bok choys in oyster sauce and pork/sweet potato sammich, I also felt that I just hung out with one of the most straight-forward, local foodie chefs in Cleveland. Chef Cooley got a sort-of Miami surfer-dude glow to him that matches his hometown and his stylized blond mohawk. When I called him dude, I don't think he objected too much.
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The Cleveland Farmer's Summit had a special room set aside in AMP 150, where we ate and fired off question after question to Chef Cooley. I learned all sorts of things that night. Definite mentionables include AMP 150's quarter acre garden in the would-be-just-mowed grassland at the end of the parking lot and the Marriott's rooftop apiary (that's awesomely insane!).
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Though we all flirted with hints of dollar pricing, specifics were kept gray. Instead, we learned of standards in terms of quality with re-assurances towards premium dollar pricing. After quality (which by the way Old Husher's Farm excels in), storage seemed to be the next major concern. I was hoping for the magic bullet when I asked Chef Cooley about basil storage, but all of our heads scratched in unison regarding the basil storage conundrum.
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So after quality and then storage, one of the overriding, underlining themes to our dinner chat was "alot of early communication" with an emphasis on "alot." My interpretation of this sentiment correlates perfectly with my "Local Vegetable of the Couple of Days" concept from prior blog. Boiled down, it means that Chef Cooley is willing to work with us, small Cleveland farmers, given that we let him know what we have, when we can have it, and then ultimately deliver it at that time with prior notice. The "at that time" clause is the variable I'm most worried about. Being that I don't own weather (this 2011 Cleveland temperate rain forest spring is a perfect example), I work in ballpark time frames, and not space shuttle countdowns.
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For an urban farmer like myself, I think a perfect example of sales synergy would be Old Husher's Walla Walla Onion Rings. Once harvested, the onions will have a curing period, and then have a one month shelf life, which in the case of the Walla Walla is the trade-off for being awesomely sweet. For me with a couple hundred pounds of Wallas, I will need to move those quickly. During the curing, I can give a restaurant a heads-up to approximate weight and delivery time. The restaurant then has time to adjust their menu accordingly and hopefully hype Old Husher's Walla Walla Onion Rings. Given everything Chef Cooley said that evening, this scenario seems win-win.
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To conclude just for the record, I want to mention that Old Husher's Farm is the closest urban farm to AMP 150, a mere 20 blocks away. Thanks again to Chef Cooley for cold chillin with us, Cleveland Farmers, and to Annabel Khouri for organizing the event. McDermott, your presence was missed.The Garden Life and Times of Justin Husherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027763141794117793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901581921030179917.post-45494104453717663962011-04-12T10:33:00.022-04:002011-04-12T14:47:06.589-04:00Brussel Sprouts Battle RoyaleFrom the end of February and throughout March, I pushed myself to the limits of brussel sprouts addiction, seeking them out wherever I could in the seediest of places so that I may present the straight dope on this terrifying member of the cabbage family. Warning: this blog may be a little too real for some of you.
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I, too, used to be afraid of brussel sprouts, having cried at the tender age of 12 when my parents forced me to eat them at the kitchen table. Just like the rest of the 80's that included Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign/Minor Threat's "straight-edge" and Tipper Gore's "Parent's Resource Music Center," I was scarred further into complacency. While I discovered the pleasures of micro-brews in the early 90's with the likes of Jason Brady and Jeremy Sanford over Edmund Fitzgeralds, and I always had a love affair with fairly insane-o music, this wound carried another two decades into my life.
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I'm not really sure how I fell so hard so fast. All I can tell you is where I'm at now, and it ain't pretty. There's the at-home weekly roasting or pan-searing/pan-frying. I'm on the Web, looking at menus to feed my fix. Web page, per Web page, I keep asking, "do they have sprouts, do they have sprouts?" I peruse the starters, the apps, the sides. "Might they be hidden amongst an entree," I wonder while salivating? I've even gone so far as to use social media sites like Facebook to find my next hookup. My farm planning hasn't escaped this scourge either, and I'm ashamed to admit that in 2011 I will be growing brussel sprouts on Old Husher's Farm. Therefore, it is reasonable to say that brussel sprouts have now impacted all aspects of my life.
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It is with this mindset, I present you, "Brussel Sprouts Battle Royale," a no-holds barred match between Cleveland's brussel sprouts dealers. I may lose some present/future customers because of this blog. I may also throw out some zingers that I later regret because of said loss, but I go forward with a clear and unbiased conscious. Disclosures will be appropriate.
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After a month in the field, patterns emerged. The police will be glad to know that the epidemic is currently contained within Cleveland's Westside. After many attempts to find the most elusive of brussel sprouts on the Eastside, I have determined, that like the rest of us in Cleveland, the brussel sprouts have not made it over the formidable border known as the Cuyahoga River. The going rate on a plate of sprouts seems standardized, consistently ranging from $4-$6. Furthermore, the preparations often took on a similar theme: pork and/or fried in lard, a tanginess, and a crunch.
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<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1st Place: Bar Cento on W 25th</span></span>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Disclosure: I have sold mizuna and baby bok choys to chef, Mike Nowak of Bar Cento, recipient of 1st place standings in the first ever Brussel Sprouts Battle Royale.</span>
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Now, what makes Bar Cento's sprouts so good? To start, the sprouts are deep-fried in a combo of lard/duck fat to the point of slight searing crispness on the outer edge leaves. This single detail is what separated Bar Cento from the rest. The sprouts were then tossed with candied bacon/pancetta and a mustard/cider vinegar reduction. Salty, roasty, firm and crisp, these brussel sprouts rule. Priced at $5, the portion size was average. On the evening of this tasting, the brussel sprouts were paired with Bar Cento's french fries, which I, for the record, think are the best in town.
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<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">2nd Place: Tie between Tremont's Fat Cats and Lorain Avenue General Store</span></span>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Disclaimer: Though I have given samples to Fat Cats kitchen, I have never sold to any Ricardo Sandoval establishment or even heard back from them.</span>
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Coming in at a whopping $6, Fat Cats topped the scale within the limited pricing category. Parma prosciutto filled the pork and salt void, which was complimented with chicken broth and sherry. The whole plate came together with some gorgonzola that just perfectly, funk-ily rounded out all the edges. From what I can tell from 4-7 pm, Monday through Friday, Fat Cats has the best food values in town with their food and beverage happy hour.
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Disclaimer: The Lorain Avenue General Store folks are my friends, and these brussel sprouts were formally served at their house and not in a restaurant.</span>
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This is a time where my memory is a little foggy, where you might be able to say the brussel sprouts are really having a impact on my short-term memory. I remember the sprouts were served family-style to a table of ten diners. I remember that I didn't want to embarrass myself and wanted to look like a moderate brussel sprout eater. But when that Pete guy helped himself to the last sprout, I could hardly control my rage. Thankfully, there was a molten lava cake on hand to subdue my anger. Again, the details are foggy. Pan-seared in bacon fat and then roasted in the oven with garlic, and then all mixed with Aaron's wild-style dressing that was like Sri Racha, soy, honey, maple syrup, and a slew of other things...I think. This was the most complicated preparation of the Battle Royale.
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<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">3rd Place: Melt Bar and Grilled in beautiful downtown Lakewood</span></span>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Disclosure: Matt Fish and I have exchanged exactly one back and forth email about me potentially selling sprouts to Melt this fall.</span>
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Even though Melt's brussel sprouts came in third place overall standings, there's enough uniquenesses here that they could be arguably the best sprouts in Cleveland, especially to the Cleveland Jewish/Muslim/vegan/vegetarian communities. That is to say, Melt's sprouts were the only sprouts out of seven preparations that did not contain the swine. Considering all the "game" most of the other restaurants have in the Battle Royale, I find this pork-based standardization bewildering.
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Now look at that jumbo plate of brussel sprouts! Just like most things Melt, the portion size was huge. It could feed an army of vegans. Three of us got kind of full before our sandwiches even got there, and then we still had leftover sprouts, as well as, the extra half a sandwich. The glaze was peach chipolte and every once in a while had a slow subtle burn. Amazingly priced at $5.50.
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Editor's note: I technically don't know if these brussel sprouts were vegan. They seemed like it. Empower yourself, and ask next time you go to Melt.
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<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">4th place: Lolita's in Tremont</span></span>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Disclaimer: None needed.</span>
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Coming into the Battle Royale, Lolita's was a strong favorite to win, being owned by Michael Symon and also being the birthplace of this extreme love affair about a year and a half ago. I considered it a homecoming. My hands got sweaty just entering the restaurant.
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While the sprouts were still really good, they weren't great. Lolita's also fries in lard, and I think they simply forget to drain the sprouts. Between the little layers of leafy cabbage folds, it felt like corpuscles of lard popped out at every bite...and not in a good way. Once, I got over this unpleasantry and laid-back a little bit, I still enjoyed the sprouts (tossed in white anchovy, capers, and walnuts) enough to finish the bowl. $5.
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That however can not be said for Michael Symon's world famous burger that night. I ordered medium rare. The aforementioned, Aaron, ordered his rare. Neither of our burgers came out with any redness. For that matter, neither of our burgers came out with any pinkness. Like, for real, what's up with that?
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<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">5th Place: Stone Mad Pub in Gordon Square</span></span>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Disclaimer: None needed exactly (please see below)</span>.
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But to be fair to Stone Mad Pub, I am not so sure if they are deserving of such low rankings in the Battle Royale. Basically, I went to Stone Mad after I had already eaten dinner for a Gordon Square Farmer's Market Meeting. Though I had expected to have a beer, I didn't expect to randomly find brussel sprouts on the menu. Even though I was full, I couldn't deny what may have been the from-out-of-nowhere x-factor. The sprouts were completely palatable with bacon, sauteed onions, and strong cider vinegar. I just had a hard time enjoying them because of fullness. When the weather warms up, I can't wait to hang out on the beautiful Stone Mad patio and try the sprouts again. If it's any consolation, my friend's teenager who doesn't like sprouts, liked these sprouts. That's actually a pretty big consolation. Low price of $4.
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Disclaimer: Deagan's is the new "Gastro Pub" in town that I'd like to sell to in the future due to proximity to my home/distribution center. However, I am giving them last place, and I'm gonna gripe a little bit cause I keep it real.</span>
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I've had these brussel sprouts twice now, and both times they have failed to impress. As a matter of personal preference, I'm just not a fan of jumbo sprouts like the ones pictured below. The pairing with salted pork belly sounds good on paper, but the salt just doesn't impart the same uniform flavor in the way bacon does. Furthermore, the ample chunks of pork belly with their chewy, fatty, gristly-ness could be off-putting to some. As for the service, it's full of teenage-girls, who describe $6 pints as, "light," or "dark," which is very, very annoying. In Deagan's defense, the rest of our dinner was good. Also, $5.
<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig0RPw7UZO10sFUw3NDoUHL0zxr6NDeS-GnvOLLe7y1vNCUiAeOnae1zGL0Rnd1FTtqHO0r2jlEVUKwlpqqX1C2zP8af9HtY3YTg0x3bMrIFvpkOFdrWvvtHs9QKE_AMFzQ_Z6IQsRjAc/s1600/deagans+sprouts.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig0RPw7UZO10sFUw3NDoUHL0zxr6NDeS-GnvOLLe7y1vNCUiAeOnae1zGL0Rnd1FTtqHO0r2jlEVUKwlpqqX1C2zP8af9HtY3YTg0x3bMrIFvpkOFdrWvvtHs9QKE_AMFzQ_Z6IQsRjAc/s400/deagans+sprouts.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594705577278227970" border="0" /></a>Thanks to Aaron Pearl, who accompanied me and professionally photographed (meaning he had a smart phone with flash, whereas, I just had a phone) three of the seven outings. I believe he used the three outings as surveillance so that he could help achieve a 2nd Place standing for Lorain Avenue General Store. The world of brussel sprouts is seedy, indeed.</p>The Garden Life and Times of Justin Husherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027763141794117793noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901581921030179917.post-78974939465171611322011-04-05T09:34:00.004-04:002011-04-05T10:09:21.907-04:00Last Week's PictorialI'm dedicating this blog to my buddy, Gabe, who I didn't help move at all last week. Instead, I tilled, planted, sorted, potted-up tomatoes, unrolled some nasty second-hand greenhouse plastic, and performed other necessary/tedious chores. Thanks goes out to Chad Krawtschenko, Josh Klein, and Lynn Rodemann, who all assisted with various tasks.
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This photo is just kind of cool and does not represent any amount of sweat equity. I call it "Lettuce and Onions under a GlowCube."
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Here's the germination station again. This time it's a little more full. We have some soil blocked beets in the top foreground and hardy kiwis on the bottom edges.
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A totally charming photograph of myself and the nasty aforementioned plastic. That single piece was over 100 feet long and 24 feet wide with gallons of water stuck in the seams. Josh, Lynn, and I unrolled it and took box knives to it in order to cut it into manageable pieces. Photo by Lynn.
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That's alotta onions! This photo represents the first purchase by the Cleveland Farmers Buyer's Club. Twelve of us went in on 3,600 onions, which allowed us to drop the price of a single bundle from $12 all way down to $2.50. Please note, about 1,500 of these onions are mine.
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All of them potted-up tomatoes. Yes, my house is a mess.
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</p>The Garden Life and Times of Justin Husherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027763141794117793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901581921030179917.post-66837285181615811632011-03-22T09:55:00.005-04:002011-03-22T10:10:58.783-04:00CSA Share Revenue Bond Partnership and Growing Power<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Ko3YWo_dhNmbHlz9lCgUSy9gtMgTgz_x_FHyR55nr_-oN0aB5Jjl74L69QIzG7Tt6aaqsqtO0SM7eeBWtjhx9lj_KhyCx5bvUH4lpnm07weO26B7n766rTlVktFOFxO9uXYIbwlt3-U/s1600/the+finishing+touches.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Ko3YWo_dhNmbHlz9lCgUSy9gtMgTgz_x_FHyR55nr_-oN0aB5Jjl74L69QIzG7Tt6aaqsqtO0SM7eeBWtjhx9lj_KhyCx5bvUH4lpnm07weO26B7n766rTlVktFOFxO9uXYIbwlt3-U/s400/the+finishing+touches.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586904857120782274" border="0" /></a>
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I started the pre-7 AM seasonal farmer wake-up last supermoon Saturday, March 19th. Groggilly, I trudged over to 81st and Kinsman to be a part of RID-ALL’s ”Green ’N Tha Ghetto,” which if I may add RID-ALL is a horrible name for a greening project. It sounds like RID-ALL is going to exterminate us. As for the ghetto, the site location seemed to be more like a wasteland, which is the next step in an area’s decline after most folks leave the ghetto.
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When I type wasteland, I don’t type it lightly. In a total area of at least five acres, there were about four houses. The rest were demolished. Trash was strewn everywhere, abandoned cars, Wild Irish Rose bottles, fast food wrappers, the norm. There were at least two separate packs of wild dogs. My buddy, Chad, almost fell into a six-foot sinkhole while walking on the ”sidewalk,” and there was a fire-burning, tarp-built homeless shelter in the woods. If there were ever an area that needed stabilized, then this is it. I hope, additionally, RID-ALL takes the time to get rid of all the litter in the area.
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The workshop was broken up into two separate workgroups: worm culture/composting and fish culture. Will Allen led the composting group, while some younger guy, named Ryan, put together the fish and plant-growing bunkbed. I focused my energies on the fish culture, and as such had very little dealings with Mr. Allen that day. My few interludes with the compost group left me the impression of WIll Allen as some sort of Urban Farming Drill Sargent, complete with ”I can’t hear you!” calls, followed by the group’s shouting response.
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Now I gotta admit that even though this was a workshop, I was relatively a bum that day. However in my defense, there were people in the crowd who had never operated a cordless drill/saw before or used a socket wrench. Furthermore, I will be digging plenty of holes in the forthcoming months. Lastly, I listened hard, and I feel like I got the blueprint burned into my brain. Winning!
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Basically, that blue print is very much like a 4 X 8 bunkbed with six 4 X 4 posts on the outside of the structure. The fish pond was the bottom bunk, made with three stacked 2 X 12s to a height of three feet and lined with 0.45 mil pond liner. The top bunk would have been a little more scary to sleep with a single 2 X 4 as the lone wall. The top was minimally angled so that water could use gravity to drop back down into the fish pond through a standard shower drain. The top was also pond liner lined and eventually filled with pea gravel or lava rock.
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So the whole system works with a sump pump in the fish pond which sucks up water/fish poop/nitrites and nitrates and pumps it to the pea graveled top bunk. The pea gravel is the biofilter that breaks the nitrites and nitrates down into plant-usable nitrogen for the plants that are also growing on the top bunk. Subsequently, the bio-filtration also cleans the water for the fish’s sake, and the gravity fall to the fish pond aerates the water. The Growing Power folks claimed the bacterial population in the pea gravel was naturally occurring, but I think it has much more to do with filling the pond with five-gallon buckets of water that formerly housed worm casings. All in all, it seemed fairly simple, especially after doing a hydroponics internship at Gardens Under Glass this winter.
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At the time of the workshop’s conclusion, I felt all my questions had been answered. However a couple days later now, I have a major question about fish and disease, and whether or not Growing Power have dealt with disease in any of their tilapia or perch growing. If anybody has any input on this, that would be greatly appreciated.
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After this Growing Power workshop, I feel ready, able, and wanting to farm some fish. However, it seems that a greenhouse is a necessary first step. So I’m just throwing this out there. If anybody is interested in sponsoring or partnering with Old Husher in greenhouse construction, then please be in contact.
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Several examples of sponsorships immediately come to mind. I wouldn’t mind partnering with a non-profit, like a Development Corporation, who in return could get CSA Shares for the hungry in their area. This is what I call the CSA Share Revenue Bond. It could also work with an individual philanthropic donor.
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Another partnership could be with a corporation, most-likely food-based like a restaurant or caterer. In this partnership, the corporation would buy the greenhouse in exchange for ultra-local access of a percentage of produce/fish at market prices. In return, the corporation gets a say (within reason) as to what’s grown in the greenhouse, as well as ultra-local bragging rights.
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Well, there I go on my soapbox again. But those are just two examples off the top of my head with what feels like unlimited permutations. So seriously, I believe some amazing things can get done through some of these small-scale partnerships. If anybody wants to get in touch in order to do so, then please do.The Garden Life and Times of Justin Husherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027763141794117793noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901581921030179917.post-29667159711482258702011-03-15T14:31:00.008-04:002011-03-15T22:13:03.258-04:00The Germination Station<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivteVrp6EBAIGm-IASyAFKNTlatdnTQscXO64QFn73KGQxrfyOS5RBy3QmJAL5RK3nv8wNL3uI96juoJag_ksSE7BNMonkhkZLQIYfzK_gj7saoNLKdQan0395h-fKgs7cZx492WPgc7w/s1600/002.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivteVrp6EBAIGm-IASyAFKNTlatdnTQscXO64QFn73KGQxrfyOS5RBy3QmJAL5RK3nv8wNL3uI96juoJag_ksSE7BNMonkhkZLQIYfzK_gj7saoNLKdQan0395h-fKgs7cZx492WPgc7w/s400/002.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584376347310960562" border="0" /></a>
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Question: Can you say "germination station" with a HAL 2001 spaceship accent?
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Answer: Ha! No, you can't! We copyrighted it!
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SIKE!
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On the bottom shelf, we have 400 mixed solanaceae on top of a heat pad and under a LED. Even with the heat pad, I think the basement's cool temps is slowing them down.
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On the top shelf, we have four distinct light zones. From fore to background, we have compact fluorescent (not lit), a T-5, a LED, and concluding with another compact fluorescent.
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I know it sounds like a complicated mess, but I'm trying to figure out what's the best/most easiest/convenient/cost effective lights to use over the long run. Main factors include ease of hanging, ease of moving/rehanging, quality of light, upfront costs, costs over time (energy), and duration. I will report over time. For now, I got 2000 sprouts to be watering.
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Be on the lookout for Brussel Sprouts Battle Royale coming soon to the blogosphere near you.</p>The Garden Life and Times of Justin Husherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027763141794117793noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901581921030179917.post-21172534872998955432011-02-26T09:50:00.005-05:002011-02-26T10:12:58.565-05:00Some Press<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlO5D0nB3vnGKyTWjryN217o9YILDbY_wVP1N1qqbfN3s9fnffcZGLkPevpZnKvdZiTZ0S5tG1ZmIIj_BZ4_Ro93hqPt2cEm1cLw-9pBTYrGIFdflXMKxHGKwcJBOrgX7ZgFCNZ5S-rWo/s1600/Postcard.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 253px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlO5D0nB3vnGKyTWjryN217o9YILDbY_wVP1N1qqbfN3s9fnffcZGLkPevpZnKvdZiTZ0S5tG1ZmIIj_BZ4_Ro93hqPt2cEm1cLw-9pBTYrGIFdflXMKxHGKwcJBOrgX7ZgFCNZ5S-rWo/s400/Postcard.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578011012027605858" border="0" /></a>
As evidenced by the above real postcard received from James in Denver, my sphere seems to be growing beyond family, friends, and Facebook. On February 17th, I gave a presentation at Cleveland State University about my farm, land re-usage, and current issues facing Cleveland farmers. Journalist, Lee Chilcote, was in attendance. Here is his report.<p>
<a href="http://www.freshwatercleveland.com/devnews/oldhushersfarm022411.aspx">http://www.freshwatercleveland.com/devnews/oldhushersfarm022411.aspx</a>
<p>And James in Denver, I will be in touch in a few days.
<p></p>The Garden Life and Times of Justin Husherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027763141794117793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901581921030179917.post-76775024738197565772011-02-20T18:30:00.016-05:002011-02-21T12:09:52.909-05:00A Cleveland Urban Homestead Law<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgomzH3ebUNx3uys64J89Uk3S9H4VcdICJwe5MpnVNX7bSeQxAiHX8OfaeJ8rCxwH4QPKuJkapCrZ_jQfjt8IgQpccr2M38NeMsr-pjcENQ5jfWFJ0GFvOXR7__32vVO_2gJ18ObgEguLI/s1600/Business_Card_back.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgomzH3ebUNx3uys64J89Uk3S9H4VcdICJwe5MpnVNX7bSeQxAiHX8OfaeJ8rCxwH4QPKuJkapCrZ_jQfjt8IgQpccr2M38NeMsr-pjcENQ5jfWFJ0GFvOXR7__32vVO_2gJ18ObgEguLI/s400/Business_Card_back.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576174535584672082" border="0" /></a>
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On Thursday the 17th at my Cleveland State presentation, one of the topics I was asked to touch upon is what else can the City of Cleveland do to further the local foods movement. Though there are several places for improvement, today I will focus on one subject in particular that I brought up to the crowd. This subject is long-term Cleveland Land Bank access and the potential to create Cleveland Urban Homesteading Laws.
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In January, me and 50 or so other Re-Imagining Cleveland grantees signed a four-year lease with City of Cleveland for our subsequent Land Bank properties. This four-year document feels pretty good and secure at first. Then I start thinking about my current paw paws and the future chestnuts that I want to plant. It will be at least four years until I see any real fruits from these plantings. However, beyond the four year lease, Cleveland is being eerily, attorneyalistically quiet about its plan for the properties.
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If you look at those photos above, it's pretty easy to see that my farm is located on a major Cleveland street near two major highways. Thousands of cars drive past every day. To shorten the verbiage and get to the point, my farm would make a kick-ass spot for a BP gas station. Then when you consider that these funds for Re-Imagining Cleveland came from the Federal government and technically not directly from Cleveland itself, it's also pretty easy to understand that these green spaces might just be only a holding pattern for the City. In four years, it's clear that Cleveland believes there might just be some corporate investing again. Maybe?
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It is this complete lack of being "all-in" that terrifies many of us new and would-be Cleveland urban farmers. Admittedly, some of the folks in the urban foods and sustainability movement are total flakes, either having only heard these terms through Oprah and Martha, or just being a little too liberally extreme with what is acceptable for city land usage.
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At this point, it feels as if we've reached an impasse. Cleveland farmers want what every farmer in the world wants: land security. Whereas, the City wants to protect itself from flakes/liability, while keeping its door open to a better economic opportunity. In all actuality, who could really blame Cleveland?
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Being the solution-maker that I've been becoming, I have a solution. That solution is Cleveland Urban Homesteading Laws. These laws, or ordinances, or whatever they'd technically be in terms of legal jargon would be modeled after the Federal Homesteading Laws of yesteryear. I've often likened the land availability in Cleveland and the rest of the Rust Belt to what the early American settlers must have felt. It's just that this time there's no American Indian Genocide or African Slavery to taint (understatement) the historical record.
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For those unaware, back in the day, up until about the 80's, the American government would give away large tracts of land to adventurous/rugged individuals to "homestead" the land. Basically what this meant is that the individual/family had a prescribed amount of time (often five to seven years) to prove to the American government that they could make a living off of the land (think trapping, fishing, mining, logging, farming, and very earlier tourism). If at the end of the allotted time frame, the individual/family could prove that they had earned a living from the land, then the family would be granted that tract.</p>
I propose something in lines with this methodology as a way to create a formalized mechanism to grant land rights to Cleveland farmers. I would further suggest to even lower the bar from "earning a living" to "making quantifiable supplemental income." Being that all land bank lots are not created equally in terms of size, it may be necessary to put dollar amount standards on various lot sizes. For example, a Cleveland urban homesteader, working an eighth of an acre may need to show $3K of revenue earned; whereas, another Cleveland urban homesteader, working an acre may need to show revenue of $24K in order to be granted the land.
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Cleveland's already way on the map and making its mark on the world in terms of urban food production and land re-use. However, being the first city in the United States to create urban homestead laws would be nothing short of revolutionary. It would empower people. It would help stabilize neighborhoods. And "gulp," it may even attract people to the city. And when I say people, I mean non-Ohioans.
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Of course, I encourage all other cities to create their own urban homesteading laws. It's just that being that I farm in Cleveland, I would like Cleveland to do it first. Something like a homegrown revolution.The Garden Life and Times of Justin Husherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027763141794117793noreply@blogger.com2