Posts under ‘farms’

I recently came across this disturbing article in the New York Times.
Sometime after finishing the morning milking, Mr. Pierson, 59, a dairy farmer who grew up on High Low Farm on Weed Mine Road in Columbia County [NY], which his father bought when he was an infant, did something no one will ever entirely explain. [...]

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 [...]

I’m always telling folks to know where their food comes from and to ask their farmers. But what can you do when the farmer lies? Like in this case, both the Food Network and the White House Garden fail the transparency test.
See what happens when hype and political opportunity get out of hand. Perhaps people [...]

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 [...]

Rob Moutoux, a farmer in the DC area, is now cultivating grains on his farm. The Slow Cook has a post about it.
He [Montoux] estimates that his 10 acres produce about 30,000 pounds of grain, which he stores in wooden bins in his barn before turning it into whole wheat flour or rye flour or [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

If the Thanksgiving holiday had a Black Friday, it would be this Saturday, this being the last weekend of farmers markets before the big feast. Except farmers and farmers market shoppers aren’t quite like mall shoppers. Thank goodness for small favors.
I began the day with the Wooster Square market in New Haven. It’s a small [...]