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Twin baby goats are watched over by their nanny and are ready to welcome guests at Great Country Farms in northern Virginia this spring.

 

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What’s My Delivery Day?

May 30, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

Dear CSA members, The 2016 CSA delivery season begins next week. Check the list below to determine which day of the week your deliveries will arrive. Please be advised that […]

Filed Under: Local Farming Tagged With: CSA delivery days

Time For Asparagus!

May 16, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

From Marla Vargas-Mundey at LAJ Foods Time for Asparagus! I love the first weeks the markets open because it means asparagus is ready! Most folks just grill or roast it […]

Filed Under: Eat, Local Farming Tagged With: asparagus and avocado quesadillas, asparagus pesto, asparagus recipes, LAJ Foods

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

Bee Still Egg Comparison

March 23, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

Note: Bee Still Farmette is our only service point in the Manassas area. Chelsea here from Bee Still Farmette. I’ve decided to trade in my farm boots for a lab […]

Filed Under: Eat, Local Farming Tagged With: Bee Still Farmette, confinement eggs, free-range eggs

Delicious Animal-free Eating

March 21, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

Marla was strategically positioned beside us at the Chicks Picks pop-up show last weekend, and it didn’t take us long to figure out that we should be working together. In […]

Filed Under: Eat, Local Farming Tagged With: Healthy Chicks, LAJ Foods, Whole-plane eating

CSA Greetings from Roof Garden Gal

March 7, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

CSA member Emily Landsman, the driving force behind the Rhodes Hill group site, is a small-scale urban farmer who chronicles her agricultural experiences at roofgardengal.com. Emily’s  acreage is limited, so […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Local Farming Tagged With: roofgardengirl, Rooftop gardening, urban gardening

Making Albariño

February 1, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

If the complicated world of wine, with its weirdly-named varietals and strange descriptions — like, how can wine be dry? or have a nose? — has ever mystified you, consider […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Local Farming, On Foggy Bottom Road Tagged With: albariño, Bentonite, female wine-makers, Galicia, Jennifer Shailor, Lindsey Aymond, Loudoun wind making

Farm Table in Winter

January 12, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

Seems like a cosmic lesson: I’ve just fallen in love with eating food right out of the ground — that broccoli! those beets! — and now there isn’t anymore? Seasonalism […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Local Farming Tagged With: Cold frames, cold weather gardening, Honey Brook Farms, kale, Leesburg Farmers Market, Quarterbranch Farm, Seasonal eating, Shenandoah Seasonal, Winter farming, winter greens

Why Do We Love Them?

May 12, 2015 by Kate Zurschmeide

The simplest way to answer that question is to put one in your mouth, like the guy in the photo to the left just did. The answer is the red […]

Filed Under: Eat, Local Farming, On Foggy Bottom Road Tagged With: anthocyanins, California strawberry growers, Strawberries, Strawberry ripening, Strawberry shelf life

GCF Offers Heritage Breeds from Spring House Farm

April 14, 2015 by Kate Zurschmeide

It was feeding time when I arrived at Spring House Farm for a visit, so I put on a pair of muck boots and followed Andrew Crush to the breakfast […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat, Local Farming Tagged With: Andrew Crush, confinement feeding, forest finished meats, grass fed meats, Heritage breed pigs, Mule Foot pigs, Ossabaw pigs, Spring House Farm, type-2 diebetes research

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