http://www.dcharvest.com Eat Local. Live Better. Be Happy! Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:59:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week we took delivery on a whole hog from Bill Jones of Dilwyn, Virginia.  Bill does business at the Charlottesville city market and makes regular deliveries to places closer to DC. I  met him a few years ago at the Alexandria farmer’s market and was immediately attracted to ... http://www.dcharvest.com/farm-to-table/this-years-pig-part-one/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Pumpkins and Squash at Comus Market"][/caption] Have you ever been out to the Comus Market?  Art has it inked on our calendar for November every year now.  They have the most incredible selection of locally grown squash!    It's located in Montgomery County, MD -- about 45 minutes ... http://www.dcharvest.com/harvest-news/comus-market-its-pumpkin-time/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="He was Pushed!"][/caption] The perils of CSA deliveries. We had seedless sugar baby watermelons last week. I managed to drop only one of them; I opened the back of the van and it escaped. For the delivery I laid all of them out on the grass and let ... http://www.dcharvest.com/farm-reports/csa-report-week-15/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Zingiber officinale "][/caption] I had hoped to hit a different market this weekend, but with house guests and a whole mess of other things happening, I had to go with the familiar. (Really, I needed one that was open at 9:00 on Sunday and was close to ... http://www.dcharvest.com/farm-to-table/strictly-medicinal/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Now We're Just Showing Off..."][/caption] Menu: Cibola Farms Bison Hot Dogs wrapped in Torpedo onions and beet greens from Tree and Leaf Farm and topped with Fields of Grace Gouda and homemade Green Tomato Ketchup. Tomatoes on the side from Bull Run Mountain Farm (also the source ... http://www.dcharvest.com/farm-to-table/locavore-labor-day-part-ii/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Now We're Just Showing Off..."][/caption] The Menu: Hot Dogs:  Cibola Farms Bison Dogs Onions:  Tree and Leaf Farm torpedo Onions Cheese: Fields of Grace Buns: Homemade from Moutoux Whole Wheat Flour Tomatoes: Bull Run Mountain CSA Green Tomato Ketchup: Homemade from Bull Run CSA tomatoes It's Labor Day weekend.  The time we take off ... http://www.dcharvest.com/farm-to-table/locavore-labor-day/ Locally grown and milled flour! I get asked all the time if I know a place to get locally grown & milled flour.  Somehow, I've miss Moutoux Orchards all these years.  They are a local CSA/Direct farm that grows the standard fruits and vegetables, but also has grains.    ... http://www.dcharvest.com/market-reports/falls-church-local-flour/ [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Beetza is the flavor sensation that is rockin' the nation"][/caption] Too hot to use the oven, so I fired up the grill. Whole wheat crust made form Raphine Mill flour, beets from Bloomingdale farmers market, Goat cheese from Cherry Glen Farm, fennel from Bull Run Mountain farm. ... http://www.dcharvest.com/farm-to-table/farm-to-table-fire-grilled-beetza/ [caption id="attachment_134" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Aug 23 Market Buys"][/caption] One of the comments we hear a lot is  ... so, the gooseberries are great and all, but I can't make real meals just by shopping at the farmers markets.   And, even if I could, it would cost a fortune! Well, we're here ... http://www.dcharvest.com/farm-to-table/farm-to-table-6-nights-of-market-meals/ [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="Tomatoes, Pluots and ... Cookies in the nomming bowl? How did those get there?"][/caption] It was HOT today, but that didn't seem to slow things down at the Takoma Park farmers market.  It was one of the biggest crowds I've seen all summer.   We (me and ... http://www.dcharvest.com/market-reports/takoma-park-pluots-tomatoes-and-cookies/