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Heart healthy food

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / February 21,2018

Tips, hacks, recipes, stories, and the weekly special all help you eat better live better with fresh local food!

THIS MONTH, GET IN THE HABIT OF SHOWING YOUR HEART SOME LOVE WITH LOCAL FOOD

American Heart Month is the perfect time to start getting in the habit of keeping heart healthy food on hand. That way whipping up a heart-healthy meal or snack for you and your family is easy and delicious.

Local food is a big part of it, so we've got 9 local food suggestions for you from the American Heart Association and the Cleveland Clinic.

Watch for these fresh, local foods in your online farmers market -- some are available year-round, some seasonally. If you put a few of the foods on this list in your Seasonal Roots basket each week, your heart...

Continue reading the 9 local food suggestions below, or view this issue as a printable PDF with clickable links.

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Give your gut a Valentine

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / February 14, 2018

Tips, hacks, recipes, stories, and the weekly special all help you eat better live better with fresh local food!

BOOST GUT HEALTH WITH LOCAL FOOD RICH IN PROBIOTICS & PREBIOTICS

What are probiotics? Most are “good” bacteria, and once they’re ingested, they set up housekeeping in your digestive tract. These beneficial micro-organisms are believed to help you digest your food properly and may protect you from harmful bacteria that cause disease.

Prebiotics are nondigestible carbohydrates that act as…

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Love your local family farmers

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / February 7, 2018

Tips, hacks, recipes, stories, and the weekly special all help you eat better live better with fresh local food!

GET TO KNOW ONE OF THE FAMILIES WHO FEED YOUR FAMILY

Well, it’s February, and thanks to Valentine’s Day, this is a month that’s all about love and relationships. That perfectly describes how we feel about our farmers and food artisans – we’re falling in love with fresher, more nutritious and tasty local food, and building relationships with the people who grow and make it.
Last week we all got to know Tracy of Yummvees, one of our newest food artisans and maker of vegan meals, desserts, and snacks. This week, we’d like to introduce you to one of our longtime, old school family farmers – Chris of Deer Run Farm.

Continue reading Chris’ story below, or view this issue as a printable PDF with clickable links.

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Out of tragedy, a vegan dream is born

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / January 31, 2018

Tips, hacks, recipes, stories, and the weekly special all help you eat better live better with fresh local food!

YUMMVEES VEGAN MEALS & TREATS COME TO SEASONAL ROOTS

You don’t have to be vegan to appreciate 100% plant-based food from Yummvees. It’s local, family-run, and creates vegan meals, desserts, and snacks so delicious that the nutritious, eco-friendly part is like icing on the cinnamon bun! The meals are ready-to-heat, so you don’t have to sacrifice nutrition when you’re too busy to cook.

But first we want to introduce you to Tracy, the woman behind Yummvees…

Continue reading about Yummvees below, or view this issue as a printable PDF with clickable links.

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The secret to really good olive oil

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / January 24, 2018

Tips, hacks, recipes, stories, and the weekly special all help you eat better live better with fresh local food!

HOW TO SPOT IT, STORE IT & WHY IT MATTERS

Using a really good olive oil matters because it’s as good for you as it is delicious. It fights inflammation and osteoporosis, reduces the risk of cancer and diabetes, protects against depression… and the list goes on…

Continue reading tips on good olive oil below, or view this issue as a printable PDF with clickable links.

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Try this easy New Years resolution for healthy eating

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / January 17, 2018

Tips, hacks, recipes, stories, and the weekly special all help you eat better live better with fresh local food!

In this era of fast food, junk food, and crazy busy schedules, nutritious eating can be hard. But local food makes it easy! So make “healthy eating” your #1 New Years Resolution, and Seasonal Roots will smooth the way for you. Here are 3 easy tips to get you started…

Continue reading tips on cooking, superfoods, and supermarket mind games below, or view this issue as a printable PDF with clickable links.

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Regional food vs local food

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / November 22, 2017

Tips, hacks, recipes, stories, and the weekly special all help you eat better live better with fresh local food!

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

What does 84 local farmers and food artisans, plus 70,000 boxes of local sustainably grown produce, grassfed dairy, pastured eggs and meat, and wholesome artisan fare – what does all that add up to? Another joyful year of local food!

As 2017 draws to a close, Seasonal Roots farmers and food artisans join with our entire team to say: Thank you for…

Continue reading our thanks to, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

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Regional food vs local food

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / November 22, 2017

Tips, hacks, recipes, stories, and the weekly special all help you eat better live better with fresh local food!

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

Sometimes the answer to that question is obvious: If an apple comes from New Zealand, it’s not local, at least not here in Virginia. But what if it comes from North Carolina, Pennsylvania, or even Florida?
There’s no official definition for ‘local food’ or ‘regional food’. Seasonal Roots considers food ‘local’…

Continue reading about local food, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

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How I learned to love leeks

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / November 22, 2017

Tips, hacks, recipes, stories, and the weekly special all help you eat better live better with fresh local food!

ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY’RE LOCAL
by Duane, founder and Head Veggie Fairy

I love when the winter months come and we have fresh, local leeks in the kitchen. My first farm encounter with leeks was on a nice fall day. I was standing in a field out at Charlie Collins’ Victory Farms in Henrico. Charlie sold his produce at in-person farmers markets, and I was looking at a fifty-foot-long row of leeks. They were at the peak of ripeness and ready for harvest. But Charlie was about to till them all under. Why? He’d learned…

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4 Ways you can help fight hunger in your community

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / November 22, 2017

Tips, hacks, recipes, stories, and the weekly special all help you eat better live better with fresh local food!

GIVING IS ALWAYS IN SEASON

On delivery day last week, the day before Thanksgiving, one of our neighborhood Market Managers, Nickie, posted this on Facebook:
“I’m volunteering with the 25 Project to provide meals to roughly 500 homeless living in shelters and tent cities in DC and Northern Virginia tomorrow. I reached out to the good people at Seasonal Roots to see if they could send some surplus veggies my way, and boy did they…

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