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Pickling Time~ It’s Kind of a Big Dill!

August 17, 2021 by Kate Zurschmeide

Fresh tomatoes, beets, zucchini and cantaloupe grace the shelves in the Farm Market at Great Country Farms

It’s Market Monday and as the end of summer arrives, now is the time to preserve some of the bounty of this peak harvest time to savor all winter long.  […]

Filed Under: Eat, Local Farming

Whole-life Nutrition for Life-long Wellness

December 1, 2020 by Kate Zurschmeide

As the Holiday eating season gets underway, Zach Bush, a great explorer of the microbiome, reaches out to remind us that well-being involves every aspect of our person. In the […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: fresh food, Local Food, local foodshed, microbiome, nutrition, wellness, Zach Bush

We are Here ~ Farming for your Family!

April 2, 2020 by Kate Zurschmeide

We are all finding new ways to shop, cook, entertain, connect and cope in the light of COVID-19.  One colleague encouraged, “Put down the phone and write.” That has inspired […]

Filed Under: Eat, Local Farming Tagged With: CSA, farm eggs, farm market, farm to table, ground beef, home delivery, Local Food, local produce, Loudoun farm, regenerative farming, virginia

Kale for Dinner!

April 1, 2020 by Kate Zurschmeide

Here are two easy ways to use the green kale you just brought home. Braise it. Heat two tablespoons of olive oil in a stock pot. When it starts to […]

Filed Under: Eat, Local Farming Tagged With: braised kale, fresh kale salad, kale recipes

Why Drink Apple Cider Vinegar?

April 10, 2019 by Kate Zurschmeide

Why Drink Apple Cider Vinegar? It lowers your blood sugar, decreasing your risk for insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. It turbo-charges the energy centers in your cells, your mitochondria. […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: apple cider vinegar health benefits, insulin resistance, micro biome health, mitochondrial health

Microbiome Is Our Inner Soil

February 18, 2019 by Kate Zurschmeide

In our last post, we concluded that when soil is healthy, plants and microbes dwell in symbiosis which produces high concentrations of the nutrients both need to thrive. Well, it’s […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: antibiotic use, gut bacteria, microbiome

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

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