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    Tag:  Alan Muskat

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    Health checkup: Loneliness and connection

    Posted on January 26, 2023January 23, 2023 by Xpress Staff

    Alan Muskrat, founder of No Taste Like Home, discusses the ways loneliness fuels addictions, the importance of community and seeking peace within one’s own body.

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    What’s new in food: New coffee delivery service launches in Asheville

    Posted on July 13, 2021July 19, 2021 by Kay West

    Day ToDaily delivers hot and cold beverages to downtown coffee enthusiasts. Also: Baba Nahm and Bear’s Smokehouse join forces, a local chef is featured on a National Geographic cooking series and more local food news.

    4.0 K views+FoodFood News
    Girl with foraged nuts

    Foragers navigate public land closures, stay-home mandates

    Posted on June 20, 2020June 14, 2020 by Gina Smith

    Although gleaning dinner from nature inherently offers some freedom from the social framework, COVID-19’s disruptions still reached many locals who normally take to the outdoors in spring to gather ramps, morels and other seasonal morsels.

    4.7 K views+LivingOutdoors

    Eat from the forest floor with foraged mushrooms

    Posted on July 10, 2019July 11, 2019 by Laura Hackett

    July marks peak season for gathering wild edible mushroom in Western North Carolina, and many tasty varieties are already popping up on local restaurant menus.

    6.2 K views1FoodOutdoorsSustainability

    Blue Ridge Biofuels brings its closed-loop cooking oil initiative closer to home

    Posted on May 17, 2018May 21, 2018 by Gina Smith

    Although some question its overall sustainability, Blue Ridge Biofuels’ Field to Fryer to Fuel program is transitioning to a new facility and on the verge of expansion.

    8.6 K views2LivingSustainability

    The mighty acorn: Some believe the wild nut is WNC’s food of the future

    Posted on April 5, 2017March 31, 2017 by Dana Schlanger

    Long overlooked as a source of nutrition, acorns are nutritious, plentiful and free for the taking.

    7.3 K views1FoodSustainability

    Earth Flavors project celebrates local foods and foodways

    Posted on June 9, 2016June 9, 2016 by Carla Seidl

    Asheville writer, audio documentarian and singer-songwriter Carla Seidl wraps up her two-year local foods project, Earth Flavors, with a reflection on what she learned from her many interviews with local growers and foragers.

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    Fairy food: WNC’s wild air potatoes satisfy appetites, feed imaginatio­ns

    Posted on October 28, 2015March 24, 2016 by Carla Seidl

    A local search for tiny tubers leads to a discovery of Cherokee fairy folk and an exploration of Chinese medical lore.

    7.9 K views+Farm & GardenFoodOutdoorsSustainability

    Wild sustenance­: Lambsquart­ers provide backyard source of nutrition, flavor

    Posted on September 19, 2015September 20, 2015 by Carla Seidl

    Often considered a weed, locally prolific lambsquarter is actually a highly nutritious wild edible that we can harvest for free in our own backyards.

    7.8 K views+Farm & GardenFoodSustainabilityWellness

    Foraging for food, fun and adventure

    Posted on May 24, 2015October 18, 2017 by Jonathan Poston

    Foragers live along a spectrum, and I’m fairly moderate, somewhere on the tamer end. I tag along occasionally with those who hew to a wilder code of living and eat closer to the land. The other day I served as assistant to well-known local, Alan Muskat, “The Mushroom Man,” on a wild foods tour he had arranged for some out-of-towners.

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    Dandelions for dinner: Foraging and preparing a prolific spring edible

    Posted on April 18, 2015April 25, 2015 by Carla Seidl

    Far from the lawn nuisance it’s often considered in our culture, the dandelion has actually been celebrated since ancient times as one of the world’s top health-promoting herbs. Chris Smith of Sow True Seed offers several tasty and nutritious ways to prepare this easily identifiable and abundant wild edible.

    10.9 K views3Farm & GardenFoodSustainabilityWellness

    In photos: Mother Earth News Fair 2015

    Posted on April 13, 2015April 14, 2015 by Xpress Contributor

    Crowds of locals and visitors converged on the Western North Carolina Agricultural Center Saturday and Sunday, April 11-12, to take in the sights, sounds and tastes of the 2015 Mother Earth News Fair. Click through for a slideshow of photos by Tori Pace.

    10.9 K views6Community NewsFarm & GardenLivingOutdoorsSustainabilityWellness

    Organic Growers School debuts fall Harvest Conference

    Posted on September 1, 2014September 1, 2014 by Josh O'Conner

    Organic Growers School will hold its first annual Harvest Conference at A-B Tech on Saturday, Sept. 6. The event strives to give urban farmers, homesteaders and backyard growers successful tips for fall and winter growing through workshops.

    4.3 K views+Farm & GardenLiving
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