Saturday was a fun forage…we went here, there and it seemed, everywhere! We began at the Bethel Farmer’s Market where I picked up numerous items from Newtown Cedar Hill Farm, Maple Bank Farm, Don Taylor’s Farm, and Goat Boy Soap: We continued on to Blue Jay Orchards for some apples. (They don’t have Macouns yet.) [...]
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Saturday’s Foraging Adventure
Today we went all over the place…we missed our usual haunts while we were on vacation: our farms, our markets, our farmers. We began at the Bethel Farmers Market. We got lots of goodies, too numerous to mention from Newtown Cedar Hill Farm, Maple Bank Farm, Don Taylor’s Farm, and Vaszauskas Farm. By the way [...]
Local Meal on Vacation
Frankly, I wasn’t sure if we’d be able to keep up with local fooding on vacation, considering how much of it depends on knowing where to go to get the good stuff. Sure, we packed up provisions in the cooler, but certainly not enough to eat for over a week’s worth of time. So, an [...]
Foraging, 7/19/08
Today’s forage was a solo effort. I packed up the cooler, camera, and a notebook. And coffee. Can’t forget the coffee. (Yes, I’m the kind of locavore that consumes things that don’t or won’t grow here.) The first stop was the Bethel Farmer’s Market. The season opening was last week, but I missed that one. [...]
CSA, Week 4
July 15 was the fourth week of our CSA (Waldingfield Farm, pick-up point Sandy Hook Organic Farmer’s Market). Our bounty included:- lots of beets (with the greens)- red leaf lettuce- sugar peas- kale (a lot)- swiss chard (a lot)- pattypan sqash- zucchini- leeks- an heirloom cucumber Mostly local dinner: I’m cooking some of the kale [...]
Foraging, Sunday 7/6
We tried out a new Farmer’s Market, the Sandy Hook Village Farmer’s Market (Glen Rd). This one’s not restricted to organic farms, although the area’s organic farms are well represented here. – Mitchell Farms, Southbury, CT- Smith Acres Farm, Niantic, CT- Shortt’s Farm, Sandy Hook, CT- Beldotti (baked goods, cheese, prepared foods), Stamford, CT Apologies [...]
Saturday’s Forage, 6/28/2008
We packed up the cooler and the camera and headed north to the New Milford Farmers Market. We got: – bread from Wave Hill Bread – pork cuts from Ox Hollow Farm – beets and fennel bulb from Riverbank Farm – blueberry/raspberry jam, strawberries, and shortbread from Rose’s Berry Farm -strawberry jam and scallion scapes [...]
Saturdays Forage (6/21)
Our first stop was the Brewster Farmer’s Market.- From Bluestone Farm (Brewster, NY) we got maple syrup, strawberry jam, duck eggs, and some seedlings.- From the Groovy Baker (East Fishkill, NY), we got biscotti. Lisa Wolf is the Groovy Baker, offerring a variety of organic and gluten-free confections.- And from someone else from NYC (sorry [...]
My Local Farmer’s Markets
There are lots of farmer’s markets in the region. These are just the very local markets that I’ll be frequenting regularly. Here’s a complete listing of CT Farmer’s Markets from the Hartford Courant. Brewster Farmers’ Market – Wednesday & Saturday, June 18 – November 22, 9 AM–2 PM Wholesome Wave (Westport Farmer’s Market) – Thursdays, [...]
Saturday’s Forage (6/14)
We’re back on the road in search of food. First stop was Stuart’s in Bridgewater for some beef stuffs for the family Father’s Day BBQ. We got a bunch of burgers and a couple of huge top sirloin for the event and a bunch of other goodies to round out the freezer stock. Then on [...]
