Entries by Veggie Fairy

Is organic worth it?

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / May 9,2018 Tips, hacks, recipes, stories, and the weekly special all help you eat better live better with fresh local food! IS ORGANIC WORTH IT? And can you even trust organic labels? When you’ve got nothing else to go on, that organic label seems like an easy solution. Organic […]

Is organic worth it?

And can you even trust those organic labels? – By the Veggie Fairy Team: So you want to eat food that’s good for you. But it’s hard to tell what’s truly good just by looking — you can’t see pesticides or lost nutrients. When you’ve got nothing else to go on, that organic label seems […]

This one thing helps local families find local food

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / May 2,2018 Tips, hacks, recipes, stories, and the weekly special all help you eat better live better with fresh local food! THIS ONE THINGS HELPS LOCAL FAMILIES FIND LOCAL FOOD Plus helps working moms & dads serve up healthy eats, too That “thing” is our veggie fairies! Seasonal Roots […]

This one thing helps local families find local food

Plus it helps working moms and dads serve up healthy eats – By Kristin H, Director of Veggie Communications, and Suzanne A, neighborhood Market Manager: That “thing” is our veggie fairies! Seasonal Roots veggie fairies, a.k.a. neighborhood Market Managers, are the irreplaceable links that bring farmers and families together. If it weren’t for our veggie […]

Real fresh vs fake fresh

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / April 25,2018 Tips, hacks, recipes, stories, and the weekly special all help you eat better live better with fresh local food! REAL FRESH vs FAKE FRESH 3 Things that make local food truly fresh + more nutritious, flavorful The external appearance of modern produce tells you very little about […]

Real fresh vs fake fresh

3 things that make local food truly fresh + more nutritious, flavorful – By the Veggie Fairy Team: The external appearance of modern produce tells you very little about what’s inside. Big Corporate Agriculture grows its produce all over the world, usually wherever they can get the job done the cheapest. That means the produce […]

Seasonal Roots to the rescue!

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / April 18,2018 Tips, hacks, recipes, stories, and the weekly special all help you eat better live better with fresh local food! A NEW MEMBER TELLS HER STORY By Faye D, Seasonal Roots member On February 9, I broke my leg. For two weeks I couldn’t put any weight on […]

Free home delivery of local food to the rescue!

A new member tells her story – By Faye D, Seasonal Roots member On February 9, I broke my leg. For two weeks I couldn’t put any weight on it at all and for eight weeks I was dependent on a wheel chair, a walker, crutches and finally a cane. Needless to say I couldn’t […]

Secret mushroom health benefits

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / April 11,2018 Tips, hacks, recipes, stories, and the weekly special all help you eat better live better with fresh local food! PLUS SURPRISING NEW THINGS THEY’RE MAKING OUT OF MUSHROOMS In American culture, there’s a stigma attached to mushrooms. They are, after all, a funny looking fungus. And when […]

Secret mushroom health benefits

Plus surprising new things they’re making out of mushrooms! – By the Veggie Fairy Team In American culture, there’s a stigma attached to mushrooms. They are, after all, a fungus. They’re funny looking. They have a reputation for growing in manure, which isn’t exactly appetizing. And when it comes to wild mushrooms, most parents tell […]