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Seasons Greetings from Seasonal Roots

December 18, 2018/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / December 18,2018


Tips, hacks, recipes, stories, and the weekly special all help you eat better live better with fresh local food!
Seasons greetings from the farm!
2018 has been a great year for local food in Virginia! Thousands of Seasonal Roots members have been eating better and living better while supporting 75 local family farmers and food artisans. Thank you for putting your food dollars to work right here at home and for making our state more sustainable and humane!  
You’ve also been voting with your orders, telling us what you like. Apparently you really, really like ...
Read the rest of the newsletter below, or view this issue as a printable PDF with clickable links.


			
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			  Veggie Fairy2018-12-18 08:04:232018-12-18 08:04:23Seasons Greetings from Seasonal Roots

`Authentic local salsa made in Virginia`

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

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / December 11,2018


Tips, hacks, recipes, stories, and the weekly special all help you eat better live better with fresh local food!
What a happy zingy way to eat your veggies!

Authentic local salsa made in Virignia
She was born in Venezuela and named America. Later she married Lionel, who comes from Mexico, and she grew to love the flavors of his rich culture. And now she’s handcrafting authentic local salsas right here in Virginia. 
The company is Salsas Don Sebastian, the latest addition to our home-delivered farmers market. America and Lionel’s delicious mix of fresh vegetables are an easy, yummy way to boost your veggie...
Read the rest of the newsletter below, or view this issue as a printable PDF with clickable links.


			
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			  Veggie Fairy2018-12-11 11:48:212018-12-11 11:48:21Authentic local salsa made in Virginia

`Regional food vs local food`

December 20, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

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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			  Veggie Fairy2017-12-20 10:00:272017-12-19 16:48:08Regional food vs local food

`Regional food vs local food`

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

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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			  Veggie Fairy2017-12-13 10:00:312017-12-12 13:52:30Regional food vs local food

`How I learned to love leeks`

December 6, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

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…
Continue reading about why Duane loves leeks, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.


			
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			  Veggie Fairy2017-12-06 10:00:282017-12-05 09:56:54How I learned to love leeks

`4 Ways you can help fight hunger in your community`

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

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…
Continue reading about fighting hunger while eating local, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.


			
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			  Veggie Fairy2017-11-29 10:00:562017-11-28 16:30:204 Ways you can help fight hunger in your community

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