Posts under ‘farmer's markets’

The 2010 Summer Farmers Market season is starting to swing! Several markets are already opening, and within the next month, the rest will follow suit. Here’s a directory of sorts, highlighting the markets in my near circle, far circle, and some links to more market information so you can draw your own circles. I also [...]

This week’s forage technically began on Friday evening on the ride home from work. Sport Hill Farm was still open so I picked up:

arugula
spinach
a lovely potted lavender plant

The new barn at Sport Hill is really coming along. It is beautiful. Sorry, no photo since this was an impromptu visit! Next time.
Cecelia is up for a [...]

I got a late start on this week’s forage—blame it on the rain. Happily, the sun came out as I got to my first stop! My trail:
Holbrook Farm, where I scored:

spinach
arugula
mustard greens
ramps
cilantro
greenhouse tomatoes from March Farm
Kenyon’s Rhode Island sea salt (Yay! It’s back!)
Holbrook’s own bread and butter pickles
Beltane Farm Goat milk
Womanchego cheese from Cato Corner [...]

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 [...]