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Don’t fight to make kids eat: Try gentle nudges
(By Anne Brockhoff, McClatchy Newspapers) Young children are notoriously finicky. Broccoli, salmon, beets – name a healthy food, and there’s a preschooler who won’t eat it.

“Picky, picky, picky,” many a parent has muttered over the antics of a pint-sized diner.

Great pair: Bacon and Brussels sprouts
(By Mark Bittman, The New York Times) In recent years, Brussels sprouts have made the happy transition to trendy: We see them cooked in stock, roasted, sauteed and now shredded.

The shredding – which can be done in moments in a food processor equipped with the slicing (not grating) disc – cuts cooking time and results in a nicely crisp and uniform texture.

Broccoli, carrots and peas are taunting me
The beauty of our local food economy is that it is spread across various microclimates surrounding Charlotte. But we need more local growers.

There is a misconception that us farmers, because we are farmers, are able to grow anything in the seed catalogs. That is certainly not true in our case, although I think we have tried to grow just about every crop available.

Thanks to Conservatove Rumblings Blog for this update and story. Providing great iinsight at http://ianessling.com/blog/.