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5 Simple grilling tricks

June 11, 2018/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / June 13,2018


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5 SIMPLE GRILLING TRICKS

The Do's and Don'ts ... in honor of Father's Day
Though fatherhood has nothing to do with a person's ability to captain a grill, Father's Day does roll around just as grilling season gets underway. So whether you're an alpha-griller dad or a guy who likes to kick back and watch someone else do the sweating in all those clouds of smoke, we veggie fairies salute you with these tricks for grilling fresh, local food!
Anything you can cook inside in your oven or on your stovetop, you can cook outside on your grill -- that includes fresh local fruits and veggies in season, as well as grassfed meats.
TRICK #1: DON’T use lighter fluid if you have a charcoal ...
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			  Veggie Fairy2018-06-11 15:18:202018-06-11 15:18:205 Simple grilling tricks

`A vegetable storage cheat sheet`

June 5, 2018/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / June 6,2018


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A VEGETABLE STORAGE CHEAT SHEET

PART THREE in a 3-part series on making fresh taste and nutrition last!
The following list covers this week’s harvest. For an all-season cheat sheet that you can download, print out, and post on your fridge, visit the Veggie Fairy Blog.
When the storage advice calls for plastic bags, you can always substitute plastic or glass storage containers for plastic bags. Store everything unwashed, uncut, and unpeeled. Wash and prep just before using.
BEETS: Remove greens, store separately in vegetable crisper, store greens like other greens.

BERRIS: store in single...
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			  Veggie Fairy2018-06-05 08:49:102018-06-05 08:49:10A vegetable storage cheat sheet

`The mystery of the crisper drawers!`

May 29, 2018/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / May 30,2018


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THE MYSTERY OF THE CRISPER DRAWERS!

PART TWO in a 3-part series on making fresh taste and nutrition last!
The typical crisper drawer is nothing more than a partition inside your refrigerator that offers a more humid environment than the rest of the fridge. In general, vegetables last longer in a more humid environment, while fruits prefer a slightly less humid environment.

Some crispers have a sliding humidity control setting that ranges from low to high. If there are two drawers, they may be labeled for “vegetables” (high humidity) and “fruit” (lower than veggies but still higher than the rest of the fridge). If the drawer has no humidity control, it’s sometimes labeled for “meat”. But you can still use it as a crisper to separate your produce.

The simple, low-tech humidity control slider just opens or closes a little vent in the drawer, so moisture and ethylene gas can escape. Beware the ethylene gas...
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			  Veggie Fairy2018-05-29 14:19:322018-05-29 14:19:32The mystery of the crisper drawers!

`How to store fresh local vegetables & fruits`

May 21, 2018/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / May 23,2018


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HOW TO STORE FRESH LOCAL VEGETABLES & FRUITS

PART ONE in a 3-part series on making fresh taste and nutrition last!
When you eat fresh local produce, you’re eating the most nutritious, delicious food you can get, picked at the peak of ripeness shortly before you receive it. True, it doesn’t last forever. It’s not like grocery store produce, which is usually grown far away, picked early for the lengthy trip, and then waxed and sprayed with preservatives so it will look beautiful and “fresh” for an unnaturally long period time. Fact is, grocery store produce looks great long after many of the nutrients inside have faded away. With local food, what you see is what you get. If it looks fresh, that’s because it really is. The key is to handle and store it right. So...
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			  Veggie Fairy2018-05-21 16:15:442018-05-21 16:15:44How to store fresh local vegetables & fruits

`10 spring superfoods`

May 16, 2018/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / May 9,2018


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10 SPRING SUPERFOODS TO PUT IN YOUR BELLY NOW!

Discover their amazing super powers
Spring’s a great time to go local, because to tell the truth, no list can do justice to spring's amazing bounty. Every spring, Virginia's fields overflow with foods bursting with flavor and nutrition and week by week, they're all on offer in our online farmers market. It was really hard to settle on just ten spring superfoods, so treat this list as a starting point for enjoying Mother Nature's seasonal treats...
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			  Veggie Fairy2018-05-16 20:22:432018-05-16 20:22:4310 spring superfoods

`Is organic worth it?`

May 10, 2018/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / May 9,2018


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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 foods have a reputation for being more nutritious and safer.  Plus, organic can cost up to twice as much as conventional - must be better, right? The truth, it turns out, is complicated...
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			  Veggie Fairy2018-05-10 16:08:212018-05-10 16:08:21Is organic worth it?

`This one thing helps local families find local food`

April 30, 2018/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / May 2,2018


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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 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 fairies there would be no Seasonal Roots. Not only do they deliver fresh local food to your doorstep, they also handle one-on-one customer care and spread the word about local food. They're committed to supporting farmers and families. 
Seasonal Roots veggie fairies come...
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			  Veggie Fairy2018-04-30 15:49:512018-04-30 15:49:51This one thing helps local families find local food

`Real fresh vs fake fresh`

April 24, 2018/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / April 25,2018


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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 what’s inside. 
Big Corporate Agriculture grows its produce all over the world, usually wherever they can get the job done the cheapest. So the produce has to be able to survive at least a week, and sometimes months, of travel and storage before it gets to a grocery store.
The result: Big Ag has focused on developing produce varieties that have a long shelf life and are tough enough to withstand lots of the rough handling. Nutrition and flavor are not Big Ag’s priority, even when the label says...
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			  Veggie Fairy2018-04-24 11:19:332018-04-29 18:54:21Real fresh vs fake fresh

`Seasonal Roots to the rescue!`

April 17, 2018/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / April 18,2018


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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 cook or buy groceries. Although my husband is not comfortable in the kitchen and only a little more comfortable in a grocery store, he did pitch in to do his best at cooking and the shopping. Still, it was a very difficult time for us both.  
The best thing ever was that just before the accident I had signed up for Seasonal Roots...
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			  Veggie Fairy2018-04-17 09:15:092018-04-17 09:15:09Seasonal Roots to the rescue!

`Secret mushroom health benefits`

April 9, 2018/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / April 11,2018


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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 it comes to wild mushrooms, most parents tell their kids, “Don’t touch them, you’ll die!” 
So it takes a certain sense of adventure to move beyond those white button mushrooms you find in every grocery store and try a mushroom that looks like, say, an oyster. Mike M’s oyster mushrooms come to us through Schuyler Greens, the company his brother...
The Veggie Fairy Blog has a Q&A with Mike about how he grows his oyster mushrooms (including a photo), links to scientific studies, and more cool ‘shroom inventions.  
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			  Veggie Fairy2018-04-09 17:31:522018-04-09 17:31:52Secret mushroom health benefits

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