In the past we had – and still do – a bunch of recipes – usually original or modified recipes – on our web site. I or another member of the farm had to type them in. A bit laborious but if the recipe is original it is the only way to post it. Over the last few years I have received emails from members with links to recipes they found on the internet. These were recipes they tried and liked. I didn’t want to spend the time retyping them – they usually arrived in my inbox during the farming season. And I also didn’t want to plagiarize them though I suppose as long as I referenced the web site I wouldn’t run afoul of the law. And finally our recipe system didn’t really work well with links so I never could figure out a good way to publish them so our members could try them out. So I had a dilemma that I solved by ignoring it.
This weekend I was convinced the answer to my dilemma is Pinterest. Yes, Yet Another Social Media Platform (is there a web site YASMP.com?) Why is the answer Pinterest? Because it seems to be geared toward links to other pages, which is what our recipe system lacked. So this past weekend we started a Pinterest page. The main purpose of our Pinterest page is for recipes but we certainly can be convinced to use it for something else. But for now it will be recipes.
I am by no means an expert on Pinterest. In fact the 34 minutes I spent on Pinterest was in creating the page and adding a few boards and links. I assume there are members of the farm who have far more knowledge about Pinterest than I do who also may have some favorite recipes they would like to share.
What I’d like to do is give some (all?) of our members the ability to pin links to recipes on our Pinterest boards – basically we’d use it as a recipe exchange bulletin board. I figure we can create a few boards with recipes for specific times of the year (e.g. Spring Veggie Recipes) and types of recipes (e.g. Salad Recipes) or types of veggies (e.g. Root Veggie Recipes). Would this be interesting/valuable to our members? Would you like to participate in this endeavor? If so please contact me so we can do what needs to be done to get this to happen. Do not be shy.
In the meantime, if you have links to recipes that you enjoy that use vegetables (or cheese or meat of salmon or coffee or herbs or fruit) you can send them to me via email and I will “pin” them. Hopefully we can build up a pretty good set of recipes for all members to try. If you would like to contribute your original recipes I can either give you access to our recipe repository for you to post your recipes or you can email me the recipe and I will post it on our web site. If you could include a picture we can also pin it to our Pinterest boards (must have a picture to pin I’ve been told). Man farming is getting complicated!
As always, we are still selling shares on everything we sell (veggies, fruit, meat, cheese, salmon, coffee, etc.) so please spread the word!
By the way, our Pinterest board is http://pinterest.com/freshearthfarms/