Posts under ‘farms’

I went to Meet the Author, David Gumpert at Molten Java in Bethel. Gumpert wrote The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America’s Emerging Battle Over Food Rights. Not a bad crowd for 6 PM on a Wednesday—farmers, consumers, raw milk advocates, bloggers, journalists, locavores, children, and avid readers. David Gumpert was warmly introduced by Ed Hertz [...]

This week’s forage was a short loop- Holbrook Farm and New Morning Natural Foods with an excursion to Rich Farm.
At Holbrook’s, a cheese tasting was in-progress. They’re carrying a larger selection of cheeses, including Cato Corner, Beltane, and Sprout Creek Farm from local sources, and the tasting was an opportunity to introduce their customers to [...]

A New York Times article, Push to Eat Local Food Is Hampered by Shortage, points out the shortage of slaughterhouses (more tastefully described as abattoirs). With the demand for local food and the decline of slaughterhouses (nationally, we had 1,211 in 1992 and 809 in 2008), chefs and foodies are feeling the pain.
Brian Moyer, director [...]

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 [...]