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How can you eat those rubber tomatoes?

August 19th, 2010 · Click here to add a comment · Announcement, FYI, Pam, farmer, healthy foods

Here’s a tongue-in-cheek song I wrote about genetically modified tomatoes. Click here to listen.
Enjoy,
Dan
CSA volunteer, web guy and part time songwriter
guitar, bass, vocals, drum programming - Daniel David Johnson
electric guitar - Andrew Coupe
Additional thanks to Andrew Coupe for his recording/engineering expertise.

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You can never have too much of a vegetable

June 17th, 2010 · Click here to add a comment · Erin, healthy foods

In case you get “tired” of an item, we remind you that the share boxes reflect the natural rhythm of Nature’s harvest. By mid-summer, you might be tired of zucchini. By fall you might be tired of cabbage, etc.
The answer is preserving, e.g. canning or freezing.  Check out a book called Saving the Seasons: [...]

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MoCo parents blogging for better school lunches

June 4th, 2010 · Click here to add a comment · FYI, healthy foods

Montgomery County parents have started a blog and listserv to coordinate between parents and others who want to advocate for better school lunches. Be part of the revolution.
From the site:
We are concerned parents of Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland who want to improve the food served in schools to our children. We [...]

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If you do just one thing to change the world, go organic

June 1st, 2010 · Click here to add a comment · healthy foods

“If you do just one thing to change the world, go organic.” — Maria Rodale
As you look around at the environmental crisis enveloping our planet, do you ever stop and think, “What can I do?”
In Organic Manifesto, Maria Rodale, CEO of Rodale and granddaughter of the man who started the modern-day organic food movement, answers [...]

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Food Safety Group striving to preserve non-GMO seeds

May 10th, 2010 · Click here to add a comment · FYI, healthy foods

Grass Is Green …And We Like It That Way from Kaiulani Kimbrell on Vimeo.
On Tuesday April 27, 2010 the United States Supreme Court heard argument in the Center for Food Safety’s case against Monsanto (Monsanto v Geertson Seed Farms), the first-ever Supreme Court case about genetically engineered crops. Our legal team did a great job, [...]

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How I Fell in Love with a Fish

April 9th, 2010 · Click here to add a comment · healthy foods

Chef Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish on the menu. With impeccable research and deadpan humor, he chronicles his pursuit of a sustainable fish he could love, and the foodie’s honeymoon he’s enjoyed since discovering an outrageously delicious fish raised using a revolutionary farming method in [...]

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Fruits (and veggies) of September

September 16th, 2009 · Click here to add a comment · Jen, healthy foods

September 16, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: green cabbage, apples, Delicata winter squash, beans, onions, white potatoes, and corn.
Recipes:
Delicata squash - what a pleasure! I love it when these colorful, mild-tasting winter squashes make an appearance in the CSA box. Try them in this delicious Roasted Delicata Squash Salad - [...]

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Food, Inc. movie trailer

June 1st, 2009 · Click to read comments · healthy foods

Click the arrow to see a short trailer for the film. The web site for this documentary is here, where you can learn more about Hungry for Change and watch interviews with food safety pioneers.
You may have read about the film in today’s USA Today, which features a photo of Joel Salatin of Polyface [...]

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Catching Up With Radishes and Rhubarb

May 27th, 2009 · Click to read comments · Jen, healthy foods

May 27,2009 - This week’s featured vegetables start with more radishes and rhubarb, Spring onions, head lettuce, herb, collards or kale (kale is leafy, collard is flat), asparagus and salad mix (boxed separately).
Recipes
Those who went out of town for Memorial Day (myself included) may still be trying to use up last week’s vegetables!  Here are [...]

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Take the local, organic Thanksgiving challenge

November 22nd, 2008 · Click to read comment · healthy foods

In case you missed Jennifer’s latest post on November 17, check out her Thanksgiving menu. Apparently I wasn’t the only one who thought it was great. We got a comment from Caroline, a volunteer for the Eat Well Guide, who alerts us to the Thanksgiving local and organic food challenge, launched by the [...]

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