Archive for the ‘Local Agriculture’ Category
DC Urban farmers — let them know they can come out and be a “Crop Mob” on the Agricultural zone farms. http://www.dc-urban-gardeners.com/composting/ Crop mobs are city dwellers who come out and do chores on local farms as volunteers. For more on the crop mob scene — here is their blog: http://cropmob.org/
Maryland Farmers Market listed by county Montgomery County list. These folks are our food allies. Give them your business and talk to others about the issues local farmers face. Diminishing land near urban centers and water scarcity are just two of many challenges. Support local farmers and you’ll always have food growing nearby.
edible Communities publications connect local small-scale food producers with customers. The magazines are linked to regions or urban centers and feature interviews with organic farmers, recipes, talks with chefs, vendors and regulators. Gorgeous design, graphics and photographs enhance the edible Communities publications. http://www.ediblecommunities.com/content/ – Check out Edible Radio! Nationally, the Edible Community of sustainable food [...]
The Montgomery County Maryland Agricultural Reserve has endured for 30 years. It was a model for the nation at inception. Is that still true? More than half of the county’s 93,000 acres of viable farmland is preserved through legal mechanisms such as the transfer of development rights and easement purchases. It is not always clear [...]
This recipe for dandelion wine — not to be confused with the novel Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury — was developed from oral tradition, community cookbooks and personal experience. Wait until spring when the first dandelions gild the fields. 1 gallon dandelion flowers 1 gallon boiling water 3 lbs. sugar 3 oranges cut in small [...]
The original version of this recipe appeared August 6, 2008 in the award winning Washington Post Food Section, as part of writer Stephanie Witt Sedgwick’s excellent series on preparing meals using ingredients from a week’s CSA delivery. CSA is community supported agriculture, a system where members buy shares early in the growing season when [...]
