Erin Barnett, director of Local Harvest wrote a fascinating article in the Local Harvest newsletter. It begins: Three years ago this month I started taking a new approach to meal planning. It sounds like an exaggeration, but it really has changed my life. If you’re like me, you like to cook, but don’t enjoy deciding [...]

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Need to find a CSA or farmers market near you? iPadniks and iPhonies now have a brand new tool to make it easy to find that fresh, nutritious local food at farmers markets and CSA sites. Apptika Inc. has just released a new version of its popular Farmers Market Finder app which now includes over [...]

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July 28, 2010: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: watermelon, potatoes, zucchini, cucumber, tomato, Swiss chard, onion, corn and herb. Too many potatoes? Cook them lightly and store them in the frig for the week. You can make potato salad, cold potato soup, potato lasagna (used sliced potato instead of pasta). Also you can [...]

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A good article about the choice between eating locally or organically.  Read more at Local Harvest. And a wonderful sounding rhubarb pie recipe from them as well.

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Local Harvest reports that there are 2,727 CSAs in their database. Until recently, that was the only count. Now however, the fed has come up with a number, from the Agricultural Census. They say 12,549 farmers told them that they marketed their products through a CSA in 2007. Read more at the Local Harvest web [...]

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