Posted in Farm to Fork, Real Time Farms blog on October 10, 2011
Last week I visited three of the 20 Amish farms that comprise the Path Valley Farms collective, serving nearly 60 DC restaurants. In this enchanting place food is grown by those who ride in buggies to serve the needs of customers who travel by jets. One gets the sense travelers seldom visit the 2-3 mile [...]
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Farm to Fork, Farmers Markets, Oh Say Can You CSA! on March 3, 2011
The Homegrown Local Food Summit celebrated its third year with over 300 people at Washtenaw Community College on March 1st. The sun drenched lobby shone down on the information booths and tables groaning under the bounty of donated food. Rachel Chadderdon, of Double Up Food Bucks, introduced the day’s event as a way “to bring [...]
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Farm to Fork, Health on December 15, 2010
You never know who you are going to sit next to at FridayMorning@Selmas, or in my case, who will sit on you. I sat next to David Beemer, of OmniUnum Farm, and Antoinette Benjamin, of Food for all Seasons Catering. As they spoke to me about the world of the Muscovy duck – two day [...]
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Farm to Fork, Growing Goodies, Recipes on November 1, 2010
According to the Master Gardener vegetable lesson, potatoes need to be harvested when leaves turn yellow. Deciding to split the difference between a full display of yellow wilted greenery and cold hands, we dug ours last weekend. Just like our kale, our La Ratte potatoes were an unplanned gift from last years planting. In honor [...]
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Farm to Fork, Farmers Markets, Growing Goodies, Watch & Listen on October 20, 2010
In my Farm to Fork series I visit local farms around Ann Arbor and share what I learn. As Julie Wiernik wrote last year, Nemeth Greenhouse & Farms and Nemeth Orchards is five generations of a family working together to provide apples, vegetables, container plants, donuts and cider for those who visit their stalls at [...]
