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Great Country Farms

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Marla’s Spinach Salad with Awesome Delicious Sauce

May 9, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

From Marla Vargas-Mundey We’ve learned to practice these two ideas in our house: 1. Kids who grow veggies eat veggies. 2. Kids who cook veggies eat veggies.  In other words, […]

Filed Under: Eat Tagged With: asparagus recipes, avacado dressing, jicama, spinach salad

Modern Farmer Magazine on Wheatgrass Juice

May 6, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

On May 5, Modern Farmer’s Lynsey Grosfield published an open-minded report on the wheatgrass debate. “The consumption of immature wheat shoots—whether in a smoothie, in powderized and pill form, or in topical […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: benefits of wheatgrass juice, drinking wheatgrass juice, wheatgrass, wheatgrass debate

Herb / Food Pairings from Nibblins

May 6, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

The Nibblins Specialty Food and Cookware store in Winchester just sent us this newsletter suggesting which herbs to use with which foods. Some of the pairings are surprising — and […]

Filed Under: Eat Tagged With: bouquet garni, cooking tips, herbs with food, Nibblins specialty food and cookware

Audley Farm — Nellie Custis Lived Here!

May 2, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

Last Tuesday night, ten of us Great Country Farmers went over the mountain for dinner at Audley Farm, which is the vast, rolling spread you see on your right as […]

Filed Under: Eat, Local Farming Tagged With: Audley Angus, Audley Farm, Grass-fed Beef

Introducing LAJ Foods

April 27, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

At a wellness fair back in March, we were assigned to a table next to Marla Vargas-Mundey, the culinary artist behind LAJ Foods. She had kale chips that day, and […]

Filed Under: Eat, On Foggy Bottom Road Tagged With: LAJ Foods, plant-based diet, vegan cooking

GCF Sends Large Contingent to Charity Run

April 26, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

If you were at the 5K benefit run sponsored by the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce on Sunday, you saw a lot of Farmhands on the course — twelve of […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures Tagged With: Healthy Business Challenge, Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce, Loudoun Super Hero 5K

Beautiful Beans

April 6, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

Food is a little like music: it attaches itself to people and places and moments, usually poignant ones, so you wind up eating to remember, and your memories season the […]

Filed Under: Eat Tagged With: bean stew, bitebymichelle, cooking beans, food stories, Michelle Hooton, white beans

Evergreen Answers Unmet Need

April 1, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

Somebody had a great idea: what if the place where thousands of parents take their kids for soccer practice had features that made the parents glad to be there? Like […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures Tagged With: Community Group Sites, Evergreen Sportsplex, FIFA recommended fields, Loudoun youth sports

Parsnip and Parsley Hash with Lemon and Fried Egg

March 28, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

From Cook With What You Have, by Katherine Deumling This is one of my favorite ways to eat parsnips. It takes about 10 minutes—start to finish! Scale up as needed. Serves […]

Filed Under: Eat Tagged With: Cook With What You Have, parsnip recipes, seasonal cooking

The Genetic Modification Debate Continues

March 25, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

Let’s get personal: my opposition to genetic modification of the world’s food supply is motivated more by political concerns than by concerns about health. Most GMOs are seeds which Monsanto […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures Tagged With: glyphosate, GMOs, Monsanto, non-gmo, pesticide use

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