Summer is the time of year for picnics and barbecues. There’s truly nothing better than sitting around outside with a collection of friends, sharing food and drink while a lazy evening passes by.
“Don’t write about me,” says Gina Humphreys with a laugh. The farmer behind Urban Girls Produce is a bit shy, but she gets excited when the focus shifts to her business, and the various vegetables she and her team are cultivating on four acres at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education.
Since spring, I’ve had a crush on Cherry Grove. This sustainable farm in Lawrenceville, NJ, produces some of the area’s most interesting raw-milk cheeses, and Toma Primavera—a rustic washed rind with an exterior that looks like a flower pot—tops my list as a picnic staple.
A Chemical Reaction, a film that tackles the dangers of yard pesticides, makes its main point very early: These products are designed to kill living things, so why are we so surprised when they make humans—who also happen to be living things—sick?
The Adam and Eve debacle notwithstanding, I never thought that eating fresh local fruit could be so controversial. I also assumed that, with seasonal farmers’ markets sprouting up all over Philadelphia, it couldn’t be that much work to bring one to my suburban neighborhood.
Last week, I slowly but surely packed up my life and moved it across the city. Conclusion: moving is hard. And I’m sure most can agree that in times of transition tasks like disassembling the queen-size bed become top-priority, while things like recycling can fall to the wayside. Usually this is a result of busyness,
Yup, people are still talking a lot about raw milk, especially in light of Wisconsin Governor James Doyle’s surprise veto of a bill that would have allowed the state’s dairy farmers to sell it directly from their farms. Michael Feldman took up the issue on the New York Times‘ Op-Ed Page: Things loosened considerably over the
So, it's Philly Beer Week (obvs), and after a post-work game plan discussion with a coworker (Doobies for Flying Fish and then Bells in West Philly perhaps?), I jumped on the internet to cruise for blog worthy items. That's when I see this: "The Death of Beer?"
So, sales of Bud and Miller are down. People
Keswick's Vermeer
UPDATE: From Paul Lawler: "Thanks for posting about Keswick Creamery/Carrock Farm but the situation has changed.
Cheesemaker Melanie Dietrich Cochran emailed me last night to tell me to stop spreading the news. The family's lawyer realized that due to new changes in SEC law their Cheddar Notes scheme is illegal. So please pull the posts
