Posts from ‘April, 2008’

This week’s foraging trek began at the Fairfield Winter Market, greeted by Amber. We scored: - Patchouli soap from Goat Boy Soaps. Yes, the Patchouli is back in stock and I got an entire block of it! I’ll be squeaky clean for a very long time. We also got some hand and body lotion and [...]

Back at the turn of the century (the previous one, not the recent one), up to four billion American Chestnut tree were killed in a blight. The linked article is a good read, after which, you might wonder, well how far have we progressed in developing a blight-resistant American Chestnut? According to this article at [...]

I often see signs at farmer’s markets that say something like, We took the Farmer’s Pledge. If you’re curious about what it is and how it compares to certified organic, check out the Farmer’s Pledge (PDF file) . In a very small nutshell, some farmers take the pledge in addition to being certified organic, looking [...]

Apparently, there was a run on patchouli Goatboy soap and they were out of it a few weeks ago. Goatboy’s patchouli is an excellent implementation of this earthy fragrance. Not all patchoulis are good like this. I’ve been using the Lavender Oat soap in the meanwhile, which I’ve been calling “methadone for patchouli lovers” and [...]

I’ve been wondering about guar gum for while-is it evil or benign. I thought it might be evil based on the tone of voice Michael Pollan used when he said the words but I got some yogurt at a farmer’s market that listed guar gum as one of the ingredients. Here’s a recap of the [...]

In this article in The Newtown Bee (or simply The Bee), Local Farms Improve The Menu In Newtown Restaurants, Kendra Bobowick reports that at least two Newtown restaurants (Sal e Pepe and The Inn at Newtown) are using local ingredients on their menus. The farms providing these menu items are Cherry Grove Farm and Ferris [...]