Posts under ‘farmer's markets’

I found an interesting online tool called the Food Environmental Atlas that generates maps based on your criteria.
In the Local Food category, this is the map for the Percent of Farms with Direct Sales (the darker colors represent a higher percentage).

The next map is the Number of Farmers Markets. Again the darker the colors represent [...]

Since the both the Fairfield Market and City Seed Wooster/New Haven Market were closed yesterday, I didn’t do my usual Saturday forage. Instead, I went up to the “quiet corner” of CT to Sharpe Hill Vineyard in Pomfret. I am quite fond of their Cabernet Franc and my local liquor store ran out. It’s a [...]

Wow—it’s been month since my last Saturday forage and the first of the year!
It was great to be back at the Fairfield Winter Market, which is happily back indoors. (Although, truth be told, it was probably warmer outside than inside this week!) I scored:

carrots, parsnips, and celeriac from Riverbank Farm
veal shanks (for Osso Bucco) from [...]

LoHud has an article rounding up the winter markets going on in Westchester County this year. Westchester is just over the border from CT and well within my 100 miles (in fact, well within 100 miles of all of CT!). Nice Recap.

Fairfield Winter Market
There will be NO Winter Market in Fairfield this Saturday. The market will resume Saturday, January, 16, rain or shine because it will be INDOORS!!!! See you then!
NJ Slow Food
Hey Cecelia: On 1/16, An Eating Local Year Round event, sponsored the Northern New Jersey Chapter of Slow Food in partnership with the Morris [...]

I need your help. My friend Cecelia (of CT Wine Trail Passport fame) lives in Bergen County, NJ (not far from Paramus) and is having a hard time finding local food.The irony of New Jersey being the Garden State is not lost on either one of us.
Here’s what I could find from the Internet that’s [...]

Most of my usual haunts are closed for the holidays.

Holbrook Farm is closed until the day after Epiphany (1/7/2010).
The Fairfield Winter Market is closed until 1/9/2010.
The New Haven Wooster Street market is closed until 1/16/2010.
Maple Bank Farm is closed for the season.
Blue Jay Orchards is closed for the season.

Looks like I’ll be hitting up the [...]

This week’s forage brought me to a new farmers market, the South Salem Winter Market at Gossetts Farm Market. Hat tip to Kaela of Local Kitchen for turning me on to this market. (Y’know, I’m from NY’s Hudson Valley…)
I scored:

Sea scallops from Rob of Seatuck Fish

From Madura Farms, Goshen, NY (thank you Regan):

Shiitake, Baby Bella, [...]

Today was opening day for the Fairfield Winter Market season. Ordinarily this is an indoor market, but the theater is having roof work done, so it’s going to be outdoors in the meanwhile. Temperatures have been unseasonably mild in this region, but of course today the season decided to be seasonable. It was cloudy, rainy, [...]

So, you might be wondering, “Where can I get local food at this time of the year?” Here are my places.
Farms
Maple Bank Farm in Roxbury, CT: Their farm stand is open Tuesday-Sunday 10:00 – 5:30 through Sunday, December 22, 2009.
Blue Jay Orchards in Bethel, CT is open until December 24, 2009
Holbrook Farm in Bethel, CT: [...]