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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…

Continue reading about the lessons of the California Drought, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

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…

Continue reading about why you should leave out a cooler, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

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.

Help local farmers & food artisans

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

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

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

5 EASY WAYS TO HELP LOCAL FARMERS & FOOD ARTISANS
BLOOM WHERE YOU’RE PLANTED: YOU, TOO, CAN BE A POSITIVE INFLUENCER!

If you love fresh, local food, you already know the positive influence your veggie love is having on your life: More delicious, nutritious food, home delivered = health benefits + time saved.
But do you realize that when you support the good work of our local farmers and food artisans, like the ones above, you’re also a positive influence on your community… and beyond?

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

Eat ugly food

June 28, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / June 28-29, 2017

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

WHAT DOES TRULY FRESH PRODUCE LOOK LIKE?
The external appearance of modern produce tells you very little about what’s inside. Big Ag has focused on developing varieties of produce that have a long shelf life and are tough enough to withstand rough handling – nutrition and flavor are not Big Ag’s priority…

Continue reading about ugly food, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

Why local pastured eggs are so worth it!

June 21, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / June 21-22, 2017

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

Outside Richmond in the rolling hills of Amelia Court House, Va., lies a multi-generational family farmstead called Avery’s Branch Farm. The Alexander family live and work there alongside their chickens, turkeys, ducks, pigs, and cows, using sustainable farming methods to produce nutritious, delicious food for us all…

Continue reading about local pastured eggs, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

Want to help feed hungry local families?

June 14, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / June 14-15, 2017

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

As you read this, nearly a million of your fellow Virginians don’t know where their next meal is coming from. That’s more than 10% of our population. (More on this at vafoodbanks.org.) On top of that, many hungry people live in “food deserts”, neighborhoods with little or no access to healthy fresh food. So where will their next truly nutritious meal come from…?

Continue reading about how you can help feed hungry local families, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

This is where your early local tomatoes come from

June 7, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / June 7-8, 2017

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

Jack McKenney and his son Justin always wanted to go into business together. Jack was a retired banker and Justin worked for a well-servicing company in Pennsylvania. They also had a pasture in the Virginia countryside that had been in the family for 100 years. So in 2015 the father-son team attended a hands-on hydroponic farming workshop…

Continue reading about where your early local tomatoes come from, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

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