The Neighboring Food Coop Association is working in collaboration with family farmers, farmer co-ops such as Deep Root Organic Co-op and the Pioneer Valley Growers Association, and processors including Farm to Table Co-Packers, the Vermont Food Venture Center and Green Mountain College’s Mobile Flash Freezer, to pilot products that are grown, processed and packaged right [...]
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Help us create a great local community resource for the upper White River Valley! We are searching for ALL the farms and local food sources in the upper White River Valley* to put into a FREE “Locally Grown Guide.” You can help by identifying anyone you know (including yourself!!) who fits these categories: Farms (who want to [...] Walpole, NH (January 25, 2011) – Does your child have interest in farms or gardening? Would he or she like to explore these interests this summer? The Jeffrey P. Smith Farm Scholarship endeavors to connect young people with agriculture and the natural world around them. We hope to inspire the [...] Here’s interesting info from the author of “The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times” from Q. In your book, you focus on five crops for achieving resilience: potatoes, corn, beans, squash, and eggs. Talk about one of them. Why potatoes? A. Potatoes are a great source of both carbohydrates and [...] Post Oil Solutions will continue to host its 2nd Wednesday of the month Community Conversations on Wedndesday, October 13, 7:00 PM, at the Elliot Street Cafe, on the corner of Elm and Elliot Streets in Brattleboro. The facilitated, open agenda is framed around the question, How do we work together to make our communities healthier and more sustainable? [...] From yes! magazine When Tricia Beckner asked me to only eat for a month what she can produce on her CSA farm-ette, just to see what would happen, I was game. We’ve widened the circle a little to include food produced within 10 miles of my home on Whidbey Island, with exceptions made [...] Creamy Gazpacho Ingredients Mad River Valley Localvore Project In This Issue Featured Article Article Title Participating Eating at or eating take out from each is worth 25 points. American Flatbread What to do with a big zucchini? I picked a fatter-than-baseball-bat zucchini yesterday and tried this NYT recipe. The zucchini needed to be peeled – the skin was tough – but the ribbons of zucchini were delicious! (The zucchini was so big – I could have used the ribbons for lasagna. Next time!) NYT Zucchini [...] “Math Lessons for Locavores” was the title of a NYTimes Op-Ed last Friday, though “Math Lessons for NYTimes Editors” might have been more apt (article found at ). The article basically said that, since cooking your food and running your fridge consumes far more energy than trucking or flying that food around, don’t worry about [...] |
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