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Too busy to cook? Try a slow cooker

October 18, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / October 18, 2017

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

HERE’S HOW YOU CAN COOK FRESH LOCAL FOOD WHILE YOU DO SOMETHING ELSE

Too much fresh local food and not enough time to cook it? Try using a slow cooker! It gives you control and convenience – safely. Throw in the ingredients, set the heat and cooking time, then walk away and forget about it for hours… without burning down the house. When you come back at the end of a busy day or after a good night’s sleep, a complete meal is waiting for you.

Slow cookers are …

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Local gluten free bakery

October 11, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / October 11, 2017

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

FOOD ARTISAN SPOTLIGHT: MEET ANNA B’S GLUTEN FREE

We’re excited to welcome Anna B’s Gluten Free Bakery to our year-round online farmers market! Together we’re helping more people to eat better, live better.

Gluten free food is trendy these days, but for people suffering from Celiac disease, going gluten free isn’t a choice – it’s a life-changing requirement. Gluten is …

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12 fall superfoods to look forward to

October 4, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / October 5, 2017

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

12 FALL SUPERFOODS TO LOOK FORWARD TO
The health benefits of local food just keep coming!

Many farmers markets shut down or scale back as temps drop, but not us. No way do we want to miss out on the superfoods of fall! They’re just now starting to hit their peak – the perfect excuse to gather in a warm, cozy kitchen on cool nights and enjoy these superfoods that are super-charged because they’re local and super fresh! Here’s what you can look forward to…

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How to dry fresh herbs

September 27, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / September 27, 2017

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

ENJOY YOUR FRESH LOCAL HERBS ALL WINTER LONG
Drying herbs is easy, intensifies flavor & health benefits!

You buy fresh local herbs from farmers like Gerardo and Omar Flores on Virginia’s Northern Neck because you want to use them fresh, right? But did you know they can be just as beneficial if you dry them? Drying actually concentrates…

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2 easy ways to reduce your carbon footprint

September 20, 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!

2 EASY WAYS TO REDUCE YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT…
…you’re already doing at least one of them!

The first thing you can do: Eat local food.
The second thing: Reuse your Seasonal Roots delivery box.

So first things first: You’re already eating local food from Seasonal Roots. Here’s why that reduces your carbon footprint. Local food doesn’t travel as far as most food you find in the grocery store.

Compared to the global industrial food complex, food from local farmers and artisans uses less…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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