Harvesting My Blog

So I may have neglected this blog thing for a while... my problem is my hobbies become "chores" and then I resent doing the activity so much that I just retreat. Knowing my usual patterns, I've decided to try and make this more manageable and set some realistic goals that I can actually commit to.

I'd like to give this a new name, and eventually a new domain, but for now, I'm going to focus on content and see where that goes (I think it may be premature to come up with a new name, before I really know where this is going to take me).

I don't want this to be just another food blog, because there are a million out there. Now don't get me wrong, there are some great ones out there that I love to follow (insert shameless promo here) such as Happy or Hungry.

But what I do hope is that I can share what I'm learning and hopefully, help someone else reading along the way.

So here's my vision (drum roll please)...

• Educate myself and readers on herbs and spices (I'm going to pick one item from my spice bible each week and we're going to try out a recipe and learn everything there is to know about that spice - growing, harvesting, history of origin, what to pair it with etc.
  
• Discover the local markets in our small communities (can we say ROAD TRIP?)
• Best bang for your buck - how can we take full advantage of cooking from scratch, preserving goods, learn to be self sustaining?
• Food politics - I took a great course in University about the subject and it made me question things like fair trade, organic foods, fad food movements etc.
  

Of course, a vision is only a theoretical idea until its actually put into place AND, the biggest factor I haven't included is understanding your audience....

So, I'm putting it out to the universe - what topics would you like to see covered? What do you think about my proposed vision? I need direction so please, any suggestions would be much appreciated.