Tag Archives: farmers market

Squash Blossom and Goat Cheese Appetizer

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Getting to know your local farmer can lead you to learn whole new recipe ideas and creative uses of farm products. Here is a fun recipe I learned this weekend!

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Maine Legislature to Consider Home Kitchen Bill

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Maine is considering a home kitchen law to liberate farmers and citizens to be able to make and sell their wares without being licensed. Some farmers are balking at this idea, but give it a second thought, please!

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D.C. Metro Supermarket Chain Hosts Farmers Market

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Safeway Supermarket invites local farmers to showcase their foods at one of their Northern Virginia stores. Know your farmer, know your farm friendly grocery store!

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Regulatory Confusion Hinders Cottage Industry

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A video interview with a Virginia herbalist dramatically shows the heavy burden too many laws and overlapping bureaucracies puts on cottage industry in the U.S.

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Don’t Leave Your Farmer Standing Out in the Cold!

Video interview of a farmer braving the cold to bring his beef to the farmers market. Don’t forget to shop at your local winter markets!

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Farmer Girls Create Green Business: Farmers Online Market

New Green Business Idea Growing in Rural Virginia

Two enterprising women find a new wrinkle in the local foods movement, a virtual farmers market. Great green business idea for the eco-conscious entrepreneur.

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Smart Markets Invites You to Sampling Day

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My friend, Jean Janessen would like to invite you and yours to a sampling day at her farmers market in Oakton, VA this Saturday.

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Mark McAfee on Raw Milk and the Michael Schmidt Case

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Mark McAfee, American raw dairy pioneer speaks of the critical relationship between farmer and consumer that has been damaged by industrial farming and milk monopolies.

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Smart People Shop at Smart Markets

Kimberly with Author Nina Planck at Smart Markets in Oakton

I went to the Oakton, VA farmers market this Saturday, an all winter farmers market that I have added to my shopping routine….

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