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Supplying Your Local Food, From Seed to Plate - SUNY - The State University of New York

Google Feed - Sat, 08/18/2018 - 2:21pm

Supplying Your Local Food, From Seed to Plate SUNY - The State University of New York

Between the Rows: Farmstands, farmers markets support health of residents, economy - The Recorder

Google Feed - Fri, 08/17/2018 - 10:12am

Between the Rows: Farmstands, farmers markets support health of residents, economy
The Recorder
This year, 265 farms and landscape/garden centers, 64 restaurants, 43 retailers, 24 institutions and 16 specialty producers joined together to raise awareness and sales of locally grown farm products. The organization also works with 10 local farms to ...

Local farmers take agricultural expertise to prestigious Italian conference - Newnan Times-Herald

Google Feed - Thu, 08/16/2018 - 7:03pm

Newnan Times-Herald

Local farmers take agricultural expertise to prestigious Italian conference
Newnan Times-Herald
The Cunninghams also teach local residents about the Slow Food Movement through a variety of classes on the farm, such as planting crops, organic gardening methods and preserving produce. They also provide recipes on how to prepare meals with fresh ...

Organic gardener cuts out the middleman - Western Producer

Google Feed - Thu, 08/16/2018 - 3:00pm

Western Producer

Organic gardener cuts out the middleman
Western Producer
Steel Pony Farm operates under the community supported agriculture (CSA) model, which allows members access to locally produced food. People invest directly in the farming project in exchange for regularly delivered, locally grown food. Payment is up ...

Calhoun farm participates in Atlanta Farmers' Market - Northwest Georgia News

Google Feed - Wed, 08/15/2018 - 5:27pm

Northwest Georgia News

Calhoun farm participates in Atlanta Farmers' Market
Northwest Georgia News
While Rise 'N Shine does not participate in Rome's farmers markets, much of the local communities are becoming more aware of the owners and the local organic farm. Besides the CSA deliveries, one main way Rise 'N Shine markets their produce is through ...

Tour de Farms Celebrates 10 Years - Buffalo Rising

Google Feed - Wed, 08/15/2018 - 2:58pm

Buffalo Rising

Tour de Farms Celebrates 10 Years
Buffalo Rising
It's all well and good to read about WNY's robust farm-t0-table scene… it's another to experience the farms first hand. Each year, GObike Buffalo organizes a bike tour that takes people around to visit a number of inspirational urban farms, as well as ...

Week 12 from Valley Flora!

Beet Box - Wed, 08/15/2018 - 12:25pm

Week 12 from Valley Flora! Sweet Corn!

Thanks for eating locally from our family farm!

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What's Cookin' on the Farm...

Oh August!
Strawberry U-Pick Update

The kind of Harvest Basket that makes me wish I was a Harvest Basket member....

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What's Probably In Your Share This Week:*

Walla Walla Sweets
Carrots
Strawberries
Zucchini
Cucumbers
Tomatoes
Eggplant
Sweet Corn
Head Lettuce

On Rotation:
(Some locations will receive it this week; others in a future week)

Green Beans
Sweet Peppers

*Harvest Basket contents may vary between pickup sites in a given week depending on what's ripe and ready on the farm. Don't worry - if something is on the list but not in your tote, you'll get it soon!

The VF Crystal Ball - What Might be in your Share Next Week...

Onions
Lettuce
Carrots
Cucumbers
Zucchini
Strawberries
Sweet Corn
Tomatoes
Eggplant
Beets
Chili Peppers

Oh August!
It's so easy to eat right now. Without recipes, without a dinner plan, just come home and start cutting up vegetables and see what happens. Maybe you'll turn on the stove and dirty up some pans, maybe you won't. On Sunday eve we fired up the grill on my mom's back patio, perched there in her backyard overlooking the quiet farm. We grilled burgers and topped them with butterhead lettuce and roasted peppers and fresh heirloom tomatoes and broiled eggplant. We were out of ketchup and it didn't matter; those burgers were so flavorful I was glad there was no Heinz distraction. Then came the sweet corn, first of the season (had to eat 3 or 4 ears apiece to make sure it made grade before we put it in the Harvest Baskets this week). And finally, blackberry pie by candlelight with hand-cranked vanilla ice cream. We were three generations sitting there in the dark, wrapped up in borrowed coats against the fog-chill, filled up by August.

This week marks the kick-off to sweet corn season, which should go on for many weeks this year. We planted more corn than ever in hopes of dragging that wonderful August feeling all the way into October if we can. The patch wasn't uniformly ripe yesterday so I had to cherry-pick the fattest ears for today's totes and farmstand. It means there isn't a motherlode of corn this week (4 ears instead of 6 or 8), but it also means there will likely be corn for you again next week.

Often during corn season we lose track of our kids on the farm. It's the rustle of the corn stalks that always gives them away. From a distance you can track their progress down the row as they leave a wake of rippling corn tassels. At the other end of the field they emerge triumphant, holding up ripe ears of corn like trophies. They shuck them right then and there and eat them raw like little raccoons.

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Strawberry U-Pick Update

Our Albion Strawberries are starting to come on strong in the new u-pick field! They're later to bear fruit than the Seascapes but worth the wait. The berries are huge and easy to pick, with flavor that'll knock your summer sandals off. Our strawberry patch yields well into fall and it's a sweet little secret that the August/September fruit tends to be the sweetest and most abundant (especially once the school year starts up and everyone is at Saturday soccer games....now THAT's the time to fill your freezer).

Hope you can come get your fill in the coming weeks!

The Albion strawberry patch coming into full production!

The Farmstand is Open for Summer Hours!

Every Wednesday and Saturday from 9 am to 2 pm, rain or shine!

Fresh Produce
U-pick Strawberries
Homemade Jam & Hot Sauce

Please bring your own bags!

Please note our hours are slightly changed from year's past, closing at 2 pm instead of 3 pm

For Recipes & Cooking Inspiration:

Valley Flora Recipe Wizard
Our own collection of recipes gathered over the years.

Epicurious
A vast collection of recipes, searchable by one or multiple ingredients

Full Belly Farm
Recipes from one of my favorite farms in California, pioneers of the organic movement since the 80s.

Farm Fresh to You
A storehouse of recipes, searchable by ingredient.

Helsing Junction Farm
A Washington farm that has a good collection of seasonal recipes geared toward CSA members.

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Renewing a Vision for Rural Prosperity - Civil Eats

Google Feed - Wed, 08/15/2018 - 2:10am

Civil Eats

Renewing a Vision for Rural Prosperity
Civil Eats
In 1978, Wendell Berry (Mary's father and Debbie's mentor and friend) sounded the alarm about what was happening in farm communities all around the country. Unfortunately, the state of agriculture is even worse today. ... The reality is that while some ...