The capital’s own FRESHFARM Markets is celebrating their 15th anniversary this weekend. Led by co-founders Ann Yonkers and Bernadine Prince, the now 11-market network in the metro Washington area (DC, Maryland and Virginia) has been promoting “local food with a face, a place and a name” throughout the Chesapeake foodshed since July 4, 1997. Alice […]
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FRESHFARM Week: Me(a)t Smith Meadows Farm
July 10th, 2012 · Comments Off on FRESHFARM Week: Me(a)t Smith Meadows Farm
Tags: around DC · at market · Know Your Food · NoVA Locavore · proteins
At the H Street NE FreshFarm Market
May 24th, 2012 · Comments Off on At the H Street NE FreshFarm Market
The younger foodie tot and I stopped by the H Street NE FreshFarm Market last weekend to finally scope out one of the few markets on the east side of town. At a new location this season (on 13th at H St., NE) , it’s a great little neighborhood market with some well-known vendors (Atwater’s […]
Tags: around DC · at market · spring
Food Revolution Day
May 18th, 2012 · 1 Comment
Y’all know about Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, right? His television shows brought viewers into the front lines of the childhood obesity battle, and a battle it is when faced with a food industry that will spend millions in marketing rather than admit that chocolate milk is not, in fact, a health food. (Neither is Nutella, […]
Tags: around DC · events · food for thought
Cinco de Farmers Markets!
May 4th, 2012 · 3 Comments
It’s opening weekend at Northern Virginia, DC and Maryland seasonal farmers markets! Head out early to score the best asparagus and strawberries and give a local flair to your Cinco de Mayo fiesta. (It’s the perfect excuse to blend up a batch of our strawberry horchata! Or perhaps a rhubarb margarita.) Some of our favorite […]
DC Food Blogger Bake Sale for No Kid Hungry
April 25th, 2012 · 2 Comments
Springtime in Washington means cherry blossoms, strawberries at market, and bake sales — the Great American Bake Sale for Share our Strength, to be precise. DC food bloggers are once again coming together to bake up tasty treats to raise funds for Share our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign, because no child in America should […]
Tags: around DC · baking · cooking for a cause