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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.

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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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…

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Eating local means eating what nature provides

November 22, 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!

THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING GREEN BEANS

Green beans are a tradition on many a Thanksgiving table. So Sam, our Farmer Connector, always stocks our online farmers market with them for the holiday. This year, he scoured the whole region, but there was nary a green bean to be found.

The culprit…

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As temps drop, farmers keep farming

November 15, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / November 8, 2017

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

WHAT’S ON TAP FOR THANKSGIVING, PLUS WHAT’S UP WITH THOSE PALE YOLKS?

Thanksgiving is com-ing, right about the time most traditional farmers markets are closing for the winter, or scaling back.

But not your online farmers market! We stay open year-round.

A little dip in the temperature gauge can’t stop our local farmers from…

Continue reading about local winter farming and what’s happening with your yolks, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

Why fresh local food tastes so different

November 8, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / November 8, 2017

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

CASE STUDY: CELERY

It’s celery season out on the Flores family’s farm on Virginia’s Northern Neck. Gerardo and his son Omar are harvesting fresh, aromatic celery bunches from their fields. Then we deliver it straight to you within just a couple days. If you ever needed proof that freshly harvested local produce tastes better than the stuff you get at the grocery story (which is at least a week old), do a celery taste test.

When most people think about the taste of celery, they think of grocery store celery – bitter or, at best, blah…

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Organic vs Local vs Sustainable

November 1, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / November 1, 2017

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

ORGANIC vs LOCAL vs SUSTAINABLE: WHICH IS BEST?!!

We get this question pretty much daily: “So are your farms Certified Organic?” When people ask that, we totally get where they’re coming from. We all just want to eat nutritious, safe, non-toxic, eco-friendly food. But who has time to research every item we buy? So the government’s “Certified Organic” label seems like a convenient shortcut to eating healthy without harming the planet. If only it were true.
Here at Seasonal Roots, we’re more concerned about sustainable and local than organic, so we don’t require our local farmers to be Certified Organic. Here are 5 reasons why…

Continue reading the 5 reasons why, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

Seasonal eating optimizes good health

October 25, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / October 25, 2017

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

MOTHER NATURE KNOWS BEST

Do you clean out your closets in the spring, enjoy more outdoor activities in the summer, and crave all things warm and cozy in the fall and winter? Your eating habits probably follow the same cycle. Science tells us this is natural, and…

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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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