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The Dirty Life

December 3rd, 2010 · Click here to add a comment · CSA, farmer, FYI, Pam

Single, thirtysomething, working as a writer in New York City, Kristin Kimball was living life as an adventure. But she was beginning to feel a sense of longing for a family and for home. When she interviewed a dynamic young farmer, her world changed. Kristin knew nothing about growing vegetables, let alone raising pigs and [...]

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Bountiful Harvest

October 13th, 2010 · Click here to add a comment · CSA, farmer, in the box, Kathan, Pam, share

Here is today’s email from LFFC listing what’s in the box and how much and the names of the farms where the goodies come from. Thank you, Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative. Scroll down to see a 5 minute speech by 11 year old Birke Baehr, about what’s wrong with our food system. Wednesday, October 13 [...]

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Organic Concord grapes with seeds

September 22nd, 2010 · Click here to add a comment · CSA, farmer, healthy foods, in the box, Pam, share

September 22, 2010: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables. From Pam: What a beautiful harvest moon last night – right on the autumnal equinox – nice weather – great veggies – I love fall. Here is the line up for today: freshly pressed cider, winter squash, carrots, salad mix, peppers, eggplant, potatoes, small amount of [...]

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How can you eat those rubber tomatoes?

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

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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Cider

November 5th, 2009 · Click here to add a comment · farmer, Pam

Good morning – another beautiful day Hope all went well yesterday – am sure that everyone behaved themselves & only took one jug of cider each We hope that everyone enjoyed their cider – you will have more next week. We used some to glaze our roasted root veggies – wow. Working on getting all [...]

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Notes from Pam on sweet potato varieties

October 22nd, 2009 · Click here to add a comment · farmer, Pam

Our farmer sent some info on the sweet potatoes we’ve been getting. The dark–orange/red skin dark orange flesh – Beauregard (my fav & great for making pie & biscuits), light almost white tan skin – smooth – white Haman (a gourmet delight – hard to find in regular stores), gold skin/gold flesh – Puerto Rico, [...]

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Bred for taste, not for travel

July 22nd, 2009 · Click to read comment · Pam

July 22, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: Sweet corn, kale, potatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, onions, carrots, and beets with tops. CSA Customer Service: Isn’t it great when your farmer has a face – and an open email box? If you ever have any questions about the condition of your produce, you should feel [...]

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Beet cake

July 8th, 2009 · Click to read comment · farmer, Jen, Pam

July 8, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: leeks, onions, potatoes, beans, zucchini, cucumber, beets with tops and salad mix. Farmer Pam writes with news from the farm Good morning – a cool quiet morning – we are in the changeover time of the year – planting the fall crops and getting ready [...]

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Kohlrabi is King

June 24th, 2009 · Click to read comments · Jen, Pam

June 24, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are carrots, bok choi, kohlrabi, beets, garlic scapes, herb, peas, potatoes, salad or baby spinach, and cherries. Farmer Pam notes that “the cherries are compromised by the weather – they will not hold – please wash, pit and eat right away.” There’s real-life food for you! [...]

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Planting garlic

November 2nd, 2008 · Click here to add a comment · Jen, Pam

I hope everyone had a great Halloween! This week’s treats in our boxes: Russett potatoes, carrots, sweet corn, cauliflower, broccoli, apples and green cabbage. CALLING ALL BOXES! We are gathering boxes in anticipation of the last delivery on Monday Nov. 24th. Please return all boxes that you may have. Also, it will make things a [...]

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