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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’…

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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…

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