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Your online farmers market baskets

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…

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Eat local food on a budget

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…

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Know your farmer for reliable good food

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…

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Easy ordering at your online farmers market

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…

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

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…?

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Have fun with worry-free food

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…

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

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…

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Use this one sustainable rule to declutter

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…

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