Another week and another writer is wringing his hands about the contradictions and impracticalities exhibited by locavores. Writing in Saturday’s New York Times, Damon Darlin drags out the usual culprits who have instigated and promoted the preference for locally grown food: Michael Pollan, of course, but also Michelle Obama and her garden on the White [...]
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We last visited Boerson Farm near Green Lake, WI early last November. Since we were up at our second home in the area, we stopped by the other day to stock up on whatever they had, and see how winter is treating them. Only Mat was there, and he was kind enough to walk us [...]
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We are spending the weekend in Green Lake, WI, where we have a small second house overlooking the beautiful lake. Whenever we are here, between May until Halloween, one of our favorite places to go is Soda’s Farm Market, a small store located on the small farm operated by Tracy and Kimble Soda, on WI State [...]
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It’s Carnival Squash. A “winter squash” that seems piled up right now in every farmers market, produce department, even a few garden centers. I’m really getting into all kinds of squash this year, so I had to try a carnival. Like all squash, there are several ways to cook these. I picked the simplest. I simply [...]
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Frost is on rooftops and lawns in the morning, and clouds of leaves are swirling out of gloomy gray skies from Duluth, MN to Rochester, NY and beyond. So while people on the West Coast, across the South, and pretty far up the Mid-Atlantic are continuing to peruse their bountiful farmers markets, things are different [...]
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