Posts under ‘farms’

Sport Hill Farm has escarole!
Escarole (that’s ’scarole, in Bronx Italian) is a favorite of mine from childhood. Escarole is a broad, curly-leaf endive, high in vitamin A, iron, and potassium.
For the past few years, I’ve been getting mine over the border since escarole is not as popular a vegetable here in CT as it is [...]

Friday, June 18, 2010, 4-7 PM
Ice Cream Social at New Morning Natural Foods store
to benefit Safe Haven Shelter and services for victims of domestic violence located in Waterbury and Southbury. Rain or shine.
Saturday, June 19, 2010, 2-3 PM
Sherri Brooks Vinton, author of Put ‘Em Up,  at Sport Hill Farm
Demo on preserving food and book signing.
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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 [...]

I have to admit, I was surprised to find out that the USDA introduced a Know your Farmer, Know your Food program. They are making all kinds of resources available to small farmers. So what’s wrong with this picture?
On a practical level, the USDA’s policies and regulations are skewed towards the industrial producers. It is [...]

I finally have the pictures of Sport Hill Farm’s new barn—a very cool barn indeed! (Forget looking for Patti in these pictures—she’s camera-shy!)

There’s also a loft upstairs for summer camp activities (Sport Hill is affiliated with The Unquowa Schools Farm Camp program, which gets children involved in seeing where food comes from).

Local meals happen all the time here. Okay, well about 90% of the time. I generally post these for challenges, but there is no challenge going on and this one was so sweet. I owe it all to some serendipitous (or was it fortuitous—you decide) discoveries on the foraging trail. The impromptu feast [...]

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 [...]

This week’s forage took me to
Holbrook Farm, where I scored:

spinach
mustard greens
scallions
raw goat’s milk from Beltane. (Yes! Holbrook carries raw goats milk!. Tastes like, um, milk.)
cheeses from Cato Corner Farm and Sprout Creek Farm. This one, with a tangy brie-meets-light-blue-cheese kind of taste, had my name all over it.

DiGrazia Vineyards, where I picked up the [...]

I finally had my first fiddleheads of the season at New Morning Natural Foods. These are from the Ostrich Fern. Fiddleheads are a New England thing. I’m fairly new to them, my first try was two years ago from Chef Corey at Trinity Conference Center in Cornwall Bridge. Since then, I haven’t missed a season.
To [...]