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Features -
The Home Farmer
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Written by Alicia Ghio
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 Getting out the door for a long weekend getaway is never easy. I think I’ve covered all the bases, but inevitably forget something.
And so, it was not until the ride home from Newport, RI that I realized I forgot to have someone water my garden while we were away and that there was basically nothing in the house to eat for dinner upon our return. Cereal anyone?
As we turned into our driveway the garden came into view … holy cow! The garden welcomed us home with the open arms of summer abundance. Thoughts of cereal swiftly retreated to the cupboard. Dinner was not going to be a problem. |
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Right Food for the Season -
Late Summer
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Written by Jon Ross-Wiley
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 Last Saturday, Local In Season sponsored an "on-the-spot" recipe contest at the Roslindale Farmers' Market. It was a terrific day at the market with a celebration of 25 years in Roslindale, as well as featuring the bounty of tomatoes and zucchini available at this time of year in Massachusetts. People who strolled by the Local in Season tent were challenged to come up with a recipe based on our selection of ingredients on our table. In honor of Tomato and Zucchini Day at the market we made sure to include both tomato and zucchini in the range of possibilities. The rules for the contest were as follows: |
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Right Food for the Season -
Late Summer
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Written by Jane Ward
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 The garlic lovers at my house have become a bit obsessed over these last few weeks with finding and buying fresh farm stand garlic. Cutting into a clove from a fresh dug bulb is a revelation for those of us more used to garlic past its prime, that rubbery, sap-sticky, sometimes bitter garlic that has been languishing, sprouting, even rotting in supermarket displays. A fresh clove sounds as crisp as an apple under a sharp knife’s blade, and is just as juicy and clean tasting.
Most of the garlic found at the farms is the type known as hard neck garlic. Soft neck garlic might be the type most people are familiar with, its larger outer cloves clustered around a center of smaller, irregularly shaped ones and a flexible papery shoot. Hard neck garlic, in contrast, possesses a stiff straw-like stalk at the center of a bulb that holds fewer but much more regularly shaped cloves around it. |
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Written by Jon Ross-Wiley
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Local In Season is so proud to be the local feature at City Feed and Supply this month! We are on the store's website, and this poster (right, click to enlarge) is up in the storefront window. Over the course of the summer, LIS and City Feed have collaborated to help shoppers with recipe ideas for seasonal produce and other local products. The recipe suggestions were originally only for Enterprise Farm CSA shareholders who were picking up their shares at City Feed, but we have modified the suggestions (available each Thursday at 3:00pm) to be more appropriate for any City Feed shopper. If you haven't been, or just haven't been in a while, head over to City Feed!
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