Tag: farmers
group name: slowfood
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August 11, 2007 09:32 PM EDT --
Last week my daughter and I were making our usual Saturday morning journey to our local farmer's market. As we came around the corner we could see a large table HEAPED with fruit. Tiny, royal . . .
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June 11, 2008 06:16 PM EDT --
I've been hooked on farmers' markets ever since I spent five years living in Madison, Wisconsin, where the Dane County Farmers' Market takes up the entire square around the Capitol in downtown . . .
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October 11, 2006 01:07 PM EDT --
Recently, as a Sunday dinner guest, I eagerly helped myself to a piece of Southern fried chicken. Unfortunately, when I bit into my drumstick, my relish was spoiled by the black, discoloration of meat . . .
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August 04, 2007 02:42 PM EDT --
Almost every Saturday my daughter, granddaughter, and I visit the Keene, NH Farmer's Market. As farmer's markets go, it's a fairly big one, with lots of NH and Vermont farmers, organic meat . . .
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August 31, 2006 09:56 AM EDT --
While I was sitting at the supper table tonight enjoying my meal, I realized I knew where everything on my plate originated. How many consumers can claim that today? Take a look in the produce department . . .
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August 13, 2007 08:06 PM EDT --
Reading Farmgirl Susan's article about eating Greek salad and reading in the kitchen (http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977072165) reminded me of a similar salad I used to make. . . .
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August 17, 2007 02:44 PM EDT --
I've got a housewarming/new job celebration tomorrow night, and I'm trying to figure out some sort of hors d'oeuvres or appetizers to bring. Ideally, I'd like to use produce that . . .
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September 08, 2007 08:18 PM EDT --
Today's farmer's market in Keene , NH felt very different, once I'd unpacked my vegetables. You begin to see the growing cycle slowly changing. I visited my favorite vender, Abenaki . . .
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September 26, 2006 12:56 PM EDT --
I learned about the Three Sisters Garden in a borrowed gardening book. Since then, I have been using the method and experimenting with variations in my own garden. The Three Sisters Garden is a Native . . .
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August 20, 2008 11:48 AM EDT --
I know I’ve written about farmers markets and R estaurant S upported A griculture before, and I know they are hot topics now, so I want to share with you the synergy of the two I experienced . . .
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August 21, 2007 01:45 PM EDT --
If you've read anything else I've posted, you might already know that I love food. Particularly healthy food, and particularly particularly fruits and vegetables. Double bonus points . . .
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September 18, 2008 11:55 AM EDT --
"If you don’t know where your food was grown and who grew it, you don’t know what you’re eating."
Carbon Miles / Carbon Footprints
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August 10, 2007 05:36 PM EDT --
Hi All,
For anyone interested in farmers' markets, buying local, and eating great foods with fresh ingredients, please join From the Farmers' Market at farmersmarket.gather.com. It's . . .
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March 01, 2007 03:59 PM EST --
There comes a point when girls’ night out just doesn’t seem long enough—at that . . .
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October 29, 2007 05:01 PM EDT --
It was a blind date. All I had was a name--and the deep down feeling that this time it was going to be something special. And from the moment we met, I knew that we were destined to spend the rest of . . .
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July 13, 2008 02:25 PM EDT --
Too many people in this country have been sold a bill of goods. They've been tricked, flim-flammed, conned, and hustled. They've been bamboozled into believing that food comes wrapped in plastic . . .
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April 19, 2008 09:29 PM EDT --
As Earth Day approaches this year, it seems that people are thinking more about food's price than its ecological footprint. A simple trip to the grocery store tells the same story we've been hearing . . .
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September 24, 2008 11:11 AM EDT --
September in Iowa always brings the same delicious dilemma -- what to do with all that basil.
Few herbs are as surrounded by mythology and folklore as basil. Its origins are debated, but most seem . . .
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February 21, 2006 11:10 AM EST --
A Slow Food Primer
With the advent of our new group, slowfood.gather.com, questions have come up about the nomenclature, the structure of the organization, and its goals and aspirations. . . .
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August 11, 2008 01:31 PM EDT --
T his is the time of year we flatlanders pine for during the snows of January, when it's a full 100 degrees colder than it is right now, and all the humidity is frozen to our windshields. August . . .
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