Pioneer Valley Heritage Grain member recipes!
Hello folks – wanted to share some links to some of our wonderful CSA members, many of whom have blogs where they’ll be posting recipes and photos of the delicious meals they make with their shares!
Leslie Cerier – local cookbook author and chef, holds cooking classes, and has many whole grain recipes in her book ...
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One Small Change February – Goodbye Grocery Store
In the nuttiness of this past week, I didn’t get a chance yet to post about my February pledge for the One Small Change Project. (By the way, if you haven’t checked out the site, there is a lot of really amazing inspiration to be found by the over 200 participants!)
In January, I wanted to ...
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on the other hand, beauty
(Ben’s preserved lemons-in-process: quartered, salted, smooshed into a jar, fermented 5-10 days at room temp, then put into the fridge. The best part is you can use the whole lemon after it’s preserved, rind and all.)
It’s always incredible to me how hard the world can be, and also, how incredibly beautiful. How thoughtless we can ...
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Maple Syrup and Our Own Dent Corn – yum
Ok folks, for a refreshing change of pace let’s talk about food, shall we? Excellent.
I’ve been diving into our grains and beans, and am really excited to share so many recipes with you over the coming months! First up, the pudding with totally politically incorrect name – Indian Pudding. Call it Corn Maple Pudding if ...
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tis the season . . .
Deck the halls with bags of grains Fa la la la la la la la la
(photo by Jim Sims)
Tis the season to be cleaning grains Fa la la la la la la la la
(photo by Ben Lester)
Don we now our gay apparel Fa la la la la la la la la
(photo by Seth Seeger ...
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Let the Craziness Begin . . .
Ok, so maybe “let the craziness continue” would be more appropriate, but truly, this is crunch time folks! This week we’re preparing for holiday baking at Wheatberry, doing our best to get as many CSA grain shares distributed as humanly possible before the holidays, and also . . . trying to celebrate some holidays ourselves. ...
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Step 4: Eat Less Meat, Eat More Grass
“I knew it”, you’re thinking,” She’s finally cracked. Now this crazy hippie want us to go out to the front lawn like rabbits and eat grass.”
Never fear, friends, I mean eat grass (and sunlight!) through the meat and dairy products you consume. Meaning, make sure those animals ate grass, not corn and other industrial by-products. ...
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Step Three – Eat Local
Here in the Pioneer Valley, we are blessed with CISA, and their tremendously successful “Be a Local Hero” campaign, which has brought a lot of attention to buying local foods. At Wheatberry, we’re one of a handful of food businesses that really focuses on serving fresh foods, bought from local farms (almost always organic farms, ...
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Putting the C in CSA
(The fabulous bean harvest crew from Monday’s event)
(a bouquet from Sunday’s sewing bee)
Have we mentioned that we love you, our shareholders, supporters, friends, our community?
We do.
Today’s bean harvesting party started out a bit depressing. It was discouraging that we had to have a bean harvesting party at all – the combine is broken and under ...
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Whole Grains Every Day, Every Way
Brave Irene (Sunburst Books)
The Private World of Tasha Tudor
Sunflower Houses : Inspiration from the Garden - A Book for Children and Their Grown-Ups
Organizing for the Creative Person: Right-Brain Styles for Conquering Clutter, Mastering T...
Dog and Bear (Neal Porter Books) (Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner-Best Picture Book) (...