Posts under ‘foraging’

This week’s forage was short and close to home. The Fairfield Winter Market was canceled due to the snow and it was an off week for the New Haven Wooster Market. Thank goodness for New Morning Natural Foods, where I scored these local items:

Pleasant Son (cow) cheese from Sankow’s Beaver Brook
yogurt from Deerfield Farm
raw milk [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

I’m off from the day job this week and have had an opportunity to frequent some of the Farmers Markets I’d ordinarily miss.
Tuesday’s Sandy Hook Organic market is still going strong. My favorite farms are still there: Waldingfield Farm, Shortts Farm, Middle Brook Farm, and Stoneledge among others. They are back at the location behind [...]

Happy Independence Day! Particularly those exercising their independence from petroleum-based foods–whether from fertilizers, pesticides, shipment, or a combination.
My markets were open today and I scored big!

From the Brewster Farmers Market

Fresh catnip, mixed salad greens, Daikon radishes, and Nero Cavalo from Bluestone Farm. Though I don’t ordinarily go for cold salad, the greens were already bagged [...]

There were a number of meals this week that could qualify for the local meal of the week. This is a wonderful time of the year, with so many markets open.
How about yesterday’s meal? After a day of foraging, we had:

wine from McLaughlin’s and Womanchego cheese from Cato Corner Farm, in Colchester, CT
beef tenderloins (from [...]