Eat Better Live Better Archives - Page 15 of 16

Your online farmers market baskets

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

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

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

When you go to your online farmers market to shop this coming weekend, you’ll see something new: Updated basket options that will offer better choices to you and better support to local farmers…

Continue reading about your updated basket options, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

Eat local food on a budget

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

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

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

Eating local food creates jobs and boosts the economy, promotes health and well-being, and supports a healthy environment with thriving communities. If each Virginia household spent just $10 of their total weekly food budget on local food and farm products, $1.65 billion would be generated annually, directly impacting Virginia’s economy…

Continue reading about how to eat local food on a budget, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

Know your farmer for reliable good food

May 17, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / May 17-18, 2017

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

The news has been full of headlines lately about the unreliability of organic labels. Is your food as good as it claims to be? The best way to know is to know your farmer. At Seasonal Roots, we know our local farmers! We know they use sustainable practices, which means you know it, too…

Continue reading about how to know your farmers, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

Easy ordering at your online farmers market

May 10, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / May 10-11, 2017

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

Our website just got a makeover! Not only does it have a new look, but it’s also got new information. As you know, we make it easy for you to eat better and live better with our network of local, sustainable family farmers, plus online ordering, home-delivery, recipes, and tips. Now our website makes it just as easy for newcomers to get what we’re all about…

Continue reading about easy ordering at your online farmers market, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

Grassfed: Why these “ka-razy” local farmers made the switch

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

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / May 3-4, 2017

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

Meet our newest farmer partners! When Brooks and Jil Davis decided to switch from conventional farming and go grassfed and sustainable, they were pretty much alone. Many of their fellow farmers didn’t like the idea. The couple’s decision cost them one friendship and affected their farm networking. They were labeled, “Ka-razy!” So why switch…?

Continue reading below or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

Have fun with worry-free food

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

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

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

Please do play with your food! You can serve up worry-free food and fun when you know where your food comes from. Next to every item on our menu is a small image of the farmer or food artisan who provided it. Click on that image, and you can read their story and get to know them. Knowing where your food comes from means…

Continue reading below or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

Yes, you CAN decorate brown eggs! Here’s how!

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

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

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

The happy hens who forage the green pastures of Saddle Ridge Farm are busy laying plenty of eggs. So the only limit is your imagination! You can definitely decorate brown eggs, and decorating doesn’t have to equal toxic, either. You can get non-toxic egg dye kits from…

Continue reading below or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

Use this one sustainable rule to declutter

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

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / April 5-6, 2017

Tips, hacks, recipes, stories, and the weekly special help you eat better live better!

The kitchen in that picture offers room for serenity or making a joyful mess, whichever makes you happier. If kitchen clutter is sucking the joy out of your life, celebrate spring like a veggie fairy: declutter through sustainable practices that are good for us and the planet! The fact is, our farmers aren’t the only ones who can practice sustainability to help us eat better and live better. We can do it at home by using this one sustainable trick to declutter…

Continue reading below or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

2 things to never store together

March 29, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / Mar 29-30, 2017

Tips, hacks, recipes, stories, and the weekly special help you eat better live better!

They make a great pair… cooked. But they should be stored separately. One likes to be dry and cool, and the other tends to release moisture. One is also sensitive to ethylene gas, which is given off by ripening fruits. Find out which 2 items in your crisper are the ones you should never store together…

Continue reading below or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

Eat Better Live Better / Feb 8-9

February 8, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

COOKED GRAPEFRUIT?! TAKE A PEEK AT WHAT YOUR NEIGHBORS ARE UP TO IN THE KITCHEN!
Seasonal Roots member Kristen shared a kid-friendly recipe with us on Facebook that involves a broiler and grapefruit. Krista, another member, shared a recipe for carb loading the right way, with sweet potato hash brown patties. Krista wrote: “These were and continue to be a big hit, I’ve made them with the Kennebec potatoes too!” Do you have a great recipe that uses our local food? Send it our way and EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER!

Read more below or view as a PDF with clickable links.

Posts