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When Virginia farmers markets close for winter…

September 13, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / September 13, 2017

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

WHEN VIRGINIA FARMERS MARKETS CLOSE FOR THE WINTER …
…where do the farmers go?

With the warm days of summer behind us, many Virginia farmers markets are folding up their tents for the winter. It’s not because farmers have nothing more to sell. It’s because most of us shoppers would rather stay inside where it’s warm and snug when it gets cold and blustery outside! And when it gets really cold, farmers have to keep their harvested produce from freezing while they’re shivering out there, trying to sell it to the few hardy souls…

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Local food helps local community

September 5, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / September 6, 2017

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

RESTAURANT FIRE LEAVES WORKERS JOBLESS… SO SEASONAL ROOTS STEPS UP!
Local food helps local community

Early on a Saturday morning, a fire broke out in the kitchen area of a taco restaurant called Don’t Look Back, which is located in the Carytown section of Richmond. The good news is, the restaurant owner is determined to reopen. The bad news – it’s going to take at least six months to make that happen. That means six months of unemployment for Don’t Look Back’s crew…

Continue reading about how Seasonal Roots stepped in, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

Fire It Up!

August 30, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / August 30-31, 2017

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

THE LABOR DAY GRILLING ISSUE
HOW TO THROW JUST ABOUT ALL YOUR LOCAL FOOD ON THE BARBIE!

You can cook a whole Labor Day meal on the grill, even if the food you’re making varies in how it should be cooked. The key is to create two zones, one for direct heat and one for indirect heat. So in a gas grill with two burners, turn one to medium high, the other to medium low; in charcoal grills, heap the coals to one side. The hotter side is your direct heat zone – the rest of the grill is…

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Fight Food Waste

August 23, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / August 23-24, 2017

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

WHAT YOU DO IN YOUR KITCHEN CAN HELP CHANGE THE WORLD – HERE’S HOW

Adapted from Sherri Brooks Vinton’s EcoCentric blog post “Taste it, don’t waste it”:

In the peak of the season, your online farmers’ market has tomatoes of all shapes and sizes, colors, and nuanced flavors. Grocery store tomatoes, on the other hand, are grown by Industrial Ag with a list of characteristics in mind – good looking and tough enough to travel. (Flavor’s not on the list.) Tomatoes that aren’t pretty enough for the industrial system are thrown away.

Over all, in America we throw away 40% of our food supply every year.

Its a crazy system that needs to change…

Continue reading how to fight food waste, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

Use this simple trick to avoid junk food

August 16, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / August 16-17, 2017

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

THE SOLUTION IS ONLINE

That candy in the checkout line – is it calling to you? Do those processed foods in the supermarket aisles have the power to turn your good intentions to mush? According to a new study, the best way to stay strong, reduce impulse purchases, and keep junk food out of your life is to go online and…

Continue reading how to avoid junk food, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

It’s National Farmers Market Week!

August 9, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / August 9-10, 2017

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

4 REASONS WHY FARMERS MARKETS ARE WORTH CELEBRATING EVERY WEEK

Whether online or in-person, make a point of shopping at a farmers market this week to support local family farmers! Eating local is a win-win for everyone – for the farmers, for you, and for our community. And since Seasonal Roots farmers and food artisans all use sustainable, humane methods, you get the added benefit of knowing you’re helping the environment and being kind to animals when you shop Seasonal Roots…

Continue reading about farmers market week, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

California Drought warns us to support local farmers

August 3, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / August 2-3, 2017

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

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE WATER RUNS OUT?
-by Duane Slyder, Head Veggie Fairy & founder of Seasonal Roots

A few years ago, I visited California’s Tulare County with the Northern Neck Growers Association and 21 of Virginia’s finest farmers. We toured fields full of almond trees, sweet potatoes, lettuce, radicchio, and more. Tulare County is the top agricultural producing county in the U.S., even though…

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Is Fresh Local Food More Nutritious?

July 26, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / July 26-27, 2017

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

FRESH LOCAL FOOD IS THE YUMMIEST WAY TO TAKE YOUR VITAMINS!

The most delicious way to take your vitamins is to eat fresh local food. Fruits and veggies are packed with nutrients and flavor and they taste so much better than pills! Take a fresh-picked peach, for instance…

Continue reading about why is fresh, local food more nutritious, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

Keep fresh local food fresh

July 19, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / July 19-20, 2017

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

4 COOL REASONS TO LEAVE OUT A COOLER AND ICE PACKS TOO!

Here are 4 good reasons to leave out a cooler on delivery day each week:
1. Coolers protect your local food from HEAT, especially when you throw in some ICE PACKS, too. Keep your fresh local food fresh! Once food is harvested or made, it starts losing nutrients and flavor through a process called oxidation. Heat speeds that up…

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Best Virginia Farmers Markets

July 12, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / July 12-13, 2017

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

FIND OUT WHERE TO GO FOR TRULY LOCAL FOOD!

Here at Seasonal Roots online farmers market, we love in-person farmers markets. They’re our inspiration! Summer is the perfect time to go, too, so our Veggie Fairy Blog has been exploring in-person farmers markets in Richmond, Fredericksburg, Northern Virginia, and the Hampton Roads/Virginia Beach area – communities that are lucky enough to have a local farmers market or two…

Continue reading about the best Virginia farmers markets, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.