We got a happy surprise at the Carlisle Market on Saturday. Jonas Stoltzfus of Jujo Acres Beef Farm had set up next to Sandy Miller of Painted Hand Farm and the Fishers of Otterbein Acres Farm. So within ten steps there was all the free-range grass-fed organic beef, lamb, pigs, goats and chickens — and eggs — imaginable. [...]
This is the guide to buying local, grass-fed beef that was supposed to run with Sue’s story on PennLive. Chapel-Ridge Farm, 680 Barlow-Greenmount Road, Gettysburg, 334-4222 or 334-5684, www.chapel-ridge.com. All-natural beef raised, sold at Chapel Ridge Meat & Mercantile store 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays or by appointment. Landisdale Farm, 838 Ono Road, Jonestown, Lebanon County, 865-6220: Grass-fed beef available at the farm by appointment. Lil’ Ponderosa Enterprises, 44 Ponderosa ...
Sue Gleiter Food Writer took a good look today at local grass-fed beef in the P-N. “I very emphatically try and get people to grasp the concept, you are what you eat, and more importantly, you are what your animals eat,” Lil’ Ponderosa Enterprises owner Bob Boyce told Sue. “People don’t get that linkage anymore. People think a cow is a square box in the grocery store. We have removed ...
“Americans have begun to ask why the farm bill is subsidizing high-fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated oils at a time when rates of diabetes and obesity among children are soaring, or why the farm bill is underwriting factory farming (with subsidized grain) when feedlot wastes are polluting the countryside and, all too often, the meat supply. “For the first time, the public health community has raised its voice in ...
This is the last post here, and the first post on Slow Food Harrisburg. I’ve been vexed by my current radicalization about food, because I don’t know if it will interest anyone but me. And I didn’t want to keep writing about Slow Food on a page supposedly devoted to eating out in Harrisburg, which definitely has a Restaurant Row implication. Anyway, I renamed the blog, moved all the ...
What I like about blogs is you can let ‘em be and come back and BAM! They’re still there. Slow Food Harrisburg dinner was very cool, and Sara writes about it Thursday in the P-N Go section. Will link when it’s up. Best part for us was the three cheesemakers getting up and talking about their farms. [...]
This summer, I’m doing two things to cook better / eat better. First, I signed up to be a recipe tester for Leite’s Culinaria. Publishers provide Leite’s with the recipes, before new cookbooks are published — in exchange for feedback on the recipe from cooks. As a tester, you have to vet at least one recipe a month, following the recipe exactly, then report on how easy or hard ...
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