The Great Farmers Market Taste-off

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Deeply passionate about local foods and sustainable agriculture, my husband and I put real blood, real sweat and real tears into our farmers market: waking up at the crack of dawn, putting in 14-hour days, conducting food preservation demonstrations, driving across Colorado to connect with small-time, sustainable growers and working tirelessly with local and state [...]

The Sunday Farmers Market Table

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Sunday is market day and it starts very, very early.   My husband rises at about 5:30, makes breakfast and packs up his truck.   I wake a little later, get our child ready for the day and pack my car and we head down to town together.   From there, we unpack the vehicles [...]

Growing a Market

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You may have noticed the lack of posts over the last week or so, but rest assured – while I may have neglected to send out new recipes or other goodies – it’s for good reason.   Any spare glimpse of a moment has been otherwise preoccupied with growing our little market.   The work [...]

Foodbuzz 24, 24, 24: Harvest Supper & Benefit

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In the heart of ski country, spring replaces late winter slowly–so slowly that when most gardeners around the country are celebrating the season with the first shoots of asparagus or tender salad turnips or sweet peas, we’re still struggling under several feet of hard-pack, glacial mounds of snow.   It is a barren and desolate [...]

One Local Summer: Farmers Marketing

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Like last week, we were incredibly busy this week with barely enough time to think let alone cook, but that didn’t keep us from eating local. In addition to using local ingredients in every meal we cooked this week, we enjoyed a spectacular meal at the market from our concessionaire who–in the spirit of the [...]