The Dark Days Challenge asks participants to continue cooking at least one local meal through the leaner days of winter. Your ingredients can come from your freezer, pantry, cold storage or local sources like farmers and other producers. Full details on the ’10-’11 Challenge can be found here.
The Challenge is not a competition, it’s about eating good local foods, stretching your comfort zone a bit, connecting with other bloggers and locavores and having fun. I really enjoy the Challenge every year and look forward to seeing what ya’ll have up your sleeves! As my mom says, if you’ve got local eggs, bacon, bread and butter than you’ve got a meal.
A recap of everyone’s posts is posted here to the (not so) Urban Hennery twice per month from December through April.
The participants in the 4th Annual Dark Days Challenge are:
Group 1:
(not so) Urban Hennery (Washington) • A Lake Stevens Housewife (Washington) • Amysflock (Washington) • Delicious Potager (West Virginia) • Fast, Cheap, and Good (Ohio) • good food life blog (Washington) • Hatch Town News (Maine) • Healthy Slow Cooking (North Carolina) • Heather’s Homemaking (Massachusetts) • Just Another Day on the Farm (Canada) • Keeping up with K (Virginia) • MagnumGourmet (Washington) • My Suburban Homestead • Sophisticated Palette (New York City) • Tracing Terroir (Washington) • Unjarred (Oregon) • Wintergreen Farm (Michigan)
Group 2:
Married …with dinner (San Francisco) • 100 mile locavores (Canada) • Arugulove (San Francisco) • Daftly Smitten (Maryland) • Dragonwood (Michigan) • Dropstone Farms (Washington) • Eating Appalachia (Virginia) • EatLocal365 (New York City) • Food.Soil.Thread. (Washington) • HippieHousewife (Oregon) • Knitting 40 Shades of Green (Virgina) • Morsels of Happiness (New York) • Prepping 428 (Santa Cruz) • The Connectivore’s Dilemma (Connecticut) • Urban House on the Prairie (Washington)
Group 3:
Tenth-Acre Farm (Washington) • Garlic Pig (Wisconsin) • Green Leanings (Ohio) • Julie Buckles (Wisconsin) • Making My NY Home (New York) • Post-Industrial Eating (Georgia) Prospect the Pantry (New Jersey) • Random Musings of a Deco Lady (Alabama / Tennessee) • Recipe for Life (Tennessee) • Shawn Ann’s Home and Garden (Kentucky) • Whidbey Island Hobby Farm (Washington) • Windy City Vegan (North Carolina) • Canning With Kids (California) • Amy (Washington, DC)
Group 4:
Music and Cats (Washington) • A Fattening Roommate (California) • backyard food (New Hampshire) • Figs and Fennel (Washington) • Late Bloomers Farm (Connecticut) • Local Kitchen (New York) • mountain dew and cheez-its (New York City) • Put your shovel where your mouth is (Wisconsin) • Rock Solid Natural Planters (Washington) • Rosemary and Roux (California) • Suited To The Seasons (Washington) • The Herald / Eco Geek (Washington) • The Kuhns Acre (Colorado) • The Local Cook (Michigan)
Group 5:
Eat Local Challenge (San Francisco) • a growing girl (Washington) • A Little Bit of Spain in Iowa (Iowa) • Aagaard Farms/The Vine (Canada) • Big Adventures with Little Buddies (Illinois) • countrygirl (California) • deliajude (California) • Estate Gardener (Maine) • Fessenden Farmstead (Washington, DC) • From Scratch Club (New York) • Grown Away (Massachusetts) • Hippin in Geek’s Clothing (Michigan) • Nordic Walking Queen (Minnesota) • Snohomish Farmer Market Blog (Washington) • Sustainable Eats (Washington)
Group 6:
Food in Jars (Pennsylvania) • Are we there yet? (Utah) • Aunt Bee’s Garden (Georgia) • Blithe Bicyclist (Australia) • Cafe Libby (Missouri) • Heart & Bones (Georgia) • La Hacienda Urbana (New Mexico) • Pint-sized Pioneering (Washington) • the full fridge (Arizona) • The Improbable Farmer (Oregon) • the reluctant blogger (Washington) • Villa VilleSkoolla (Washington) • Laura (Washington)
The link for Aunt Bee’s Garden in group 5 does not work. I was looking for other georgia people and could not get to her blog.
Here I am!! Not sure why the link isn’t working
http://www.auntbeesgarden.blogspot.com/
@auntbeesgarden
auntbeesgarden@gmail.com
you’re fixed! Was just missing the http:// at the front end.
Thank you. Don’t mean to be a worry wart.
Carol
Looking forward to getting to know everyone and your wonderful food! I’m creating a list on twitter so I’ll be following you all! If you want to look at my list for ease of use in following everyone, it will be @PaigeBayer by end of evening!
So many new bloggers! It’s awesome! Thanks, again, Laura, for getting this together!
please please let there be a 2011-2012 Dark Days Challenge!
Are you doing this this year?
Thanks,
Nancy
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