Greetings! My name is Julia Allal and I am the Group Services and Community Outreach Manager at Strathmore, a performing arts center in North Bethesda, Maryland. Food writer Michael Pollan will be speaking at Strathmore on Wednesday, October 26 at 8 pm, and will discuss issues such as the industrialization of food and agriculture and [...]

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What if supermarkets grew veggies in their own rooftop greenhouses, instead of shipping them in from California and beyond? Think of how that could bring us the freshest, tastiest produce, and vastly reduce long distance trucking of perishable items? That’s the idea behind New York-based BrightFarms. We grow for taste, not for shelf-life, and we [...]

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Last year some of our members told us about this buying club. This group is not connected to our CSA, but we’re happy to pass on their information to you: Steve and Jenn Kurian spend their summers aboard their fishing vessel, the R-J, in Bristol Bay Alaska. Wild For Salmon was formed to allow our [...]

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Facebook alerted me to this story about a friend of mine from high school. In 2010, the recession prompted a group of friends and neighbors to establish a garden and teach kids and families about healthy foods and the joys of gardening. “We’re teaching children that nutrition isn’t difficult,” Hunsberger said. “If we tried to [...]

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This info was copied verbatim from the Com Post, the newsletter from Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative’s CSA and Buying Club. Hi Everybody! Today I wanted to take some time to tell you about Patterson Farms and their AMAZING maple syrup! “For three generations the Patterson family has been producing Maple Syrup, it was almost 100 [...]

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Does cheap food lead to obesity? Does the US Farm Policy lead to cheap food? I assumed farm subsidies were part of the reason food, especially processed food and fast food restaurant food so cheap. This story offers a surprising view of why our food is so much cheaper. Listen to the entire NPR report [...]

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Please note: Pickup at Brookside Gardens will be indoors for the rest of the season. Thank you for your flexibility.

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Want your child to love veggies? Start early. Very early. Research shows that what a woman eats during pregnancy not only nourishes her baby in the womb, but may shape food preferences later in life. Listen to the full NPR report here. Things like vanilla, carrot, garlic, anise, mint — these are some of the [...]

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If you want a simple example of how vital a role infographics can play in our world, look at the food labels in your refrigerator. Do they really give you any sort of useful information? 20 grams of sugar. Is that a lot? 100 calories per serving. Doesn’t sound like much. And 5 grams of [...]

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