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Support Farmer Heinz (and a Sunchoke Soup Recipe)

January 7th, 2011 · 6 Comments

A local Maryland farm, Next Step Produce, recently lost their boiler room in a fire. They lost $1600 worth in seeds in the fire and are unable to heat their greenhouses until the boiler room is rebuilt. Read more about the situation here, or go to FreshFarm Markets’ website to make a contribution to the […]

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Tags: at market · Know Your Food · local farms · mushrooms · organic · PSA · recipes · soup · vegetables · winter

Countdown to Thanksgiving: Order Your Local Turkey Today!

November 4th, 2009 · 5 Comments

If you’re hosting Thanksgiving dinner this year, it’s time to pre-order your local turkey! If you read a lot of food magazines (or blogs) to prepare for your Thanksgiving feast, you’ve probably seen a lot of talk about brining the turkey in recent years. Soaking the bird in a saltwater is supposed to add succulence […]

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Tags: eatLocalDC · fresh from the... · holiday · Know Your Food · NoVA Locavore · organic · sustainable family supper

Food Independence Day (a Locavore’s 4th of July)

July 1st, 2009 · 9 Comments

You may have seen this floating around the internet lately, but the intrepid locavores who spearheaded the White House Organic (WHO) Farm movement have moved on to encourage all 50 states’ governors (and Washington’s Mayor Fenty, I presume) to serve local and sustainably sourced foods this Independence Day. Take a moment to sign the Food […]

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Tags: green tips · holiday · Know Your Food · sustainable food tidbits · tips

Virginia Farmland Solstice Supper

June 22nd, 2009 · 12 Comments

Saturday morning I awoke thinking it must still be night given how little light was coming in through the blinds. No, just yet another rainy morning. My heart sank fearing that our “fork to farm” summer solstice dinner, to be cooked by Vermilion‘s Chef Tony Chittum in the fields of our CSA farm, Potomac Vegetable […]

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Tags: eatLocalDC · for grownups only · fresh from the... · Know Your Food · NoVA Locavore · one local summer · saving family farms

Fresh from the Fields of Athenry

April 2nd, 2009 · 13 Comments

If you’ve ever taken a close look at the lamb that floods the grocery stores around this time each year, you might have noticed that it nearly all comes from New Zealand or Australia. Even our neighborhood butcher, who sources most of his meat from here in Virginia, gets his lamb from outside the area.  […]

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Tags: eatLocalDC · fresh from the... · Know Your Food · NoVA Locavore