Our premarket CSA began just this week – perfect timing for One Local Summer. It seems now, more and more, all of our meals are local. If not entirely local, they’re substantially local. What a blessing it is to celebrate real food this way! This week we enjoyed local milk, eggs, [...]
Get the Most from Your Farmers Market: 10 Tips from a Market Manager
May 8, 2009 By 25 Comments
Farmers Market season is upon us with many markets already open while others, like ours, must wait until late June or July before farmers’ fields are productive. Together, my husband and I run our local farmers market – coordinating with the town, recruiting vendors, connecting with customers and devising eccentric activities that keep the [...]
One Local Summer: Week 13
August 27, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The leaves are changing here in the high-country though we’ve been blessed with warm weather this week. It’s such a colorful time of year. The grasses are still green. The flowers are still vibrant in all their many hues. Purple-red wild raspberries dot the bushes and the willows are just beginning [...]
Gearing Up for One Local Summer
June 1, 2008 By 3 Comments
The summer is beginning to peek its head out–slowly. Indeed, I think we may end up skipping spring entirely and just head straight from winter into summer. The bitter snows of winter blew long and hard this year, and well into the month of May. I’m thrilled by the prospect of summer. The spring CSA [...]
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