Souper Bowl eBay Auction – Time is Running Out!

Souper Bowl eBay Auction - Time is Running Out!

We have the final two pairs of tickets up on eBay. The lucky auction winners will walk in the door with two of the hardest tickets to get in the Valley, with a handful of raffle tickets to start off their evening. I just checked this morning and both auctions are sitting very close to cost,

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Waterbury Winter Farmers Market – This Saturday!

Waterbury Winter Farmers Market – This Saturday!

Waterbury Winter Farmers’ market Saturday, 10 – 2

Waterbury Winter Farmers’ Market at TBPS Cafeteria on Sat., January 23rd

Vermont farm products, prepared foods and crafts will be sold at the Waterbury Winter Farmers’ Market on Saturday, Jan. 23rd at the TBPS cafeteria from 10am to 2pm.

The acoustic folk-rock duo, Dan Haley is Mr.

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The Community of the Souper Bowl

The Community of the Souper Bowl

When folks think of the Souper Bowl, the Localvore Project generally comes to mind. But, the event is really the culmination of a very generous community, including the Round Barn, the soup makers, and all those who donate food, services, ingredients, and auction items to make the evening magical and unique.

Soup, Salad and Dessert
This year,

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Learn about Vegetable Fermentation this weekend at the Capital City Farmers’ Market

Learn about Vegetable Fermentation this weekend at the Capital City Farmers’ Market

LEARN ABOUT VEGETABLE FERMENTATION:  DEMOS – UNUSUAL KRAUTS, AND KIMCHEE-MAKING DEMO FROM NOON TO 1:00 PM

Contact person: Carolyn Grodinsky, 223-2958.   manager@montpelierfarmersmarket.com

Come to the Capital City Farmers market on Saturday January 16th and learn from the experts about different ways to ferment food.  From small-scale, first-time beginners to larger-scale commercial operators making food in big

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Sandor Katz Wild Fermentation Video Now Available!

Sandor Katz Wild Fermentation Video Now Available!

Hey you fermentation fetishists…check out this fabulous video of Sandor Katz doing a fermentation workshop right here in the Mad River Valley.  Many thanks to Chelsea Green for this fabulous information and for bringing Sandor here to the valley.

Curious about how Sandor’s Kimchi turned out?  You can taste it at the Souper Bowl – but

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2009 – A good year for locally grown food in the Mad River Valley!

2009 – A good year for locally grown food in the Mad River Valley!

Originally appeared in the Valley Reporter, December 23, 2009

Despite the devastating late blight disease that wiped out just about every tomato plant in the Valley this summer, Localvores should be feeling pleasantly satiated with the increasing availability of locally grown food that 2009 brought to the Mad River Valley.  This year, the Mad River

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Lazy Lady Cheese Featured in the New York Times Magazine

Lazy Lady Cheese Featured in the New York Times Magazine

Here is a great article about Vermont’s own Lazy Lady cheesemaker Laini Fondiller.

Happy New Year Everyone!

~Robin McDermott

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Ending Waste in the Kitchen

Ending Waste in the Kitchen

This is a great article about using absolutely everything in the kitchen from a chef’s perspective.  I like the way that the chef says that kitchens that use commodity products get them so cheap that they can afford to be wasteful.  Because he uses expensive, high quality products, the only way that he can compete

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Special funding Available for Hoop Houses!

Special funding Available for Hoop Houses!

Thanks Caitrin Noel for sending this info to us to pass along to our farmers friends!

AVAILABILITY OF LOCALLY GROWN FOODS

3-Year Project To Verify Effectiveness Of High Tunnels In Natural Resource Conservation

COLCHESTER, VT, Dec 18, 2009 – On December 16, 2009 Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan  announced a new pilot

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Important News for Environmentaly Conscious Localvores Who Can’t Give Up Ocean Fish

Important News for Environmentaly Conscious Localvores Who Can’t Give Up Ocean Fish

There was an interesting Op-Ed piece in the New York Times today about – GASP – the environmental virtues of frozen fish over fresh.

Hint:  Frozen is the better way to go from a carbon footpoint standpoint and the authors claim it is just as good.

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