As an Eastern(ish) Kentuckian and enthusiastic locavore, my vote should count triple.
It’s GOT to be “Coal Miner’s Dinner”.
Oh Coal Miner’s Dinner is excellent!
[hijack]Doesn’t that depend more on the tags than the actual name, though?
Spoken by someone who knows the cube root of f#@k all about google tags…[/hijack]
I love the combination of hillbilly locavore and coal miner’s dinner!
yes and no - you are talking about Search Engine Optimization within the context of how you tag the web pages. From my business’ experience, if you have a regional business and have your region included in your name - e.g., “Miami MD Specialist” vs. “MD Specialist” as the name of your specialty medical practice - you consistently get more hits.
I bet folks interested in Locavorism (is that a word? Probably the Locavore Movement is better) would search under it - you just increase the likelihood of a hit…I am certainly no SEM/SEO expert - but I do hire 'em…
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Squirrel!
Perfect.
Your vote can count triple on two conditions. 1) You share your local sources with me, and 2) you tell me everything you know about drying shuck beans.
Poifect.
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For fruits and vegetables, what I don’t grow I get at (in order) the Good Foods Co-op or the Famers Market in Lexington. For meats, I usually rely on the Co-op for local buffalo and pork… and a colleague of mine knows someone in Berea who can hook us up with local chickens for five bucks each! (They’re a little tough, though–kinda ducky.) He also knows someone else in Berea that can hook us up with a side of beef, but I haven’t availed myself of that opportunity yet (mostly because I don’t have a large enough frezer and my wife is a vegetarian!)
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My Kentucky Wonders rarely get dried. Shoot, they’re lucky to make it inside–my son will hover around the poles and graze on the raw beans before hopping it over to the blackberries or raspberries for desert. Theoretically, I’d string 'em, tie 'em up with needle and thread, and leave them hanging in the shade!
- waving at my neighbors *
Continuing the Loretta theme, you could always call it Van Lear Locavore.
Hillbilly Locavore is excellently euphonious, in a way that only two starkly contrasting word-sounds can be (even ignoring the apparently contrasting semantics.)
Sort of like how once playing boardgames with my friends, a friend opined that “Bovine Morons” would be a great Band Name. I replied that yeah, it’s not a bad name, but even better would be “Bovine Idiots” because the two words sound even more dissimilar than “Bovine Morons”.
I like similar sounds like “Bovine Opines”, it’s even deeper because who cares about a cow’s opinion? It’s just a moo point.
Actually, ‘Pone and Ramps’ is more euphonious. Bet the French and especially the Belgians could relate to it. It’s the equivalent of “Bread and Leeks”. Be a nice name for a bistro.
Vittles and Grog
I like the Coal Miner’s Dinner: The Hillbilly Locavore Project. I not only would read this blog, but likely visit some of the places mentioned when visiting the kinfolk in Eastern Kentucky.
An aside: for more info about how to preserve what can be grown in your local growing season, check out Foxfire books. Even though I grew up on the northern end of the Hillbilly highway, I learned a lot from them when my ex and I were doing the live-off-the-land hippy thing. But you probably already know this. 
Coal Miner’s Dinner is AWESOME!
Or maybe it’s more like the Britanny Onion Tinkers that traverse the Channel to Wales.The Brittaneuse and the Welsh… They actually share some linguistic similarities. Probably indicative of a long trade and immigrant heritage.
Strike that last post please, Mr. Moderator.
I dare ya, Bourdain.
… as in, I really hope he does cover the Onion Johnnies indepth, purely as a fanboy. He doesn’t seem like the type to turn down a dare.