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Great Country Farms

Pick you own, Strawberries, Farm, U-Pick, Field Trips in Loudoun, VA

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Strawberries — Watch out for Pesticides!

May 7, 2018 by Kate Zurschmeide

Ripe strawberries on plasticulture mulch ready for you-pick.

The best reason to eat our strawberries is taste — once you try the real thing, it’s hard to go back to grocery store berries. But you might also consider […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: Clean food, local strawberries, organic strawberries, pesticide use, pesticide-free strawberries

The Ultimate Conversation About What to Eat

April 27, 2018 by Kate Zurschmeide

The food writer Mark Bittman has eaten just about everything you might put on a dinner plate, and he’s written about a lot of that food — how it tastes, […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: Dr. David Katz, Local eating, Mark Bittman, Plant-based diets, What to eat

Why Ferment?

February 8, 2018 by Kate Zurschmeide

In a world where the goodness of anti-bacterialism is taken for granted, encouraging bacteria to infect your food seems almost as wrong as flag-burning. Don’t the hand-sanitizing stations screwed to […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: fermented vegetables, health benefits of fermented foods, home fermenting, lactobacillus, sauerkraut

First Curtido

January 23, 2018 by Kate Zurschmeide

My first ferment moved into the eating stage today, after just five days in the crock. That’s on the early end of the fermenting window, and I did wonder if […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: beneficial bacteria, curtido, fermented vegetables, healthy gut biome, probiotics, sauerkraut

First-time Fermenter

January 18, 2018 by Kate Zurschmeide

I’ve been wanting to do this ever since I first made friends with lactobacillus, but I’ve been dragging my feet. Smiling at a milky-sounding bacteria is one thing, whereas cultivating […]

Filed Under: Eat, On Foggy Bottom Road Tagged With: fermented vegetables, gut bacteria, lactobacillus, probiotics, sauerkraut

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