The Lane County Farmer’s Market blog features weekly updates, recipes, photos, and more. Feel free to give your ideas as well, especially recipes using the bounty of seasonal, local produce we are seeing coming in each week. See you at the market!
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Fall Crops & Pumpkin Experimentation
October 22nd, 2009The market is abuzz with sights and smells of fall. The colder, wetter weather has nipped a few crops in the bud, so to speak, but it brings a new group of crops. Beets, potatoes, gourds, onions, carrots… storage crops that will last you as long as you want, provided you don’t eat them first. [...]
USDA Pushes Farmers Markets as Fresh Alternative
October 7th, 2009I’ve had a bevy of inspiration recently to update this blog, so here’s another link I found about farmers markets and the current administration. It even has quotes from Tom Vilsack, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, from an organization that has a lot of power to help farmers markets and local food and is finally [...]
What is "natural" meat?
October 6th, 2009If you are interested in food labeling (what can be considered “organic,” “made from organic ingredients,” or “all natural”), you might want to add your voice to the public comment period from the USDA. They are working on rules governing the use of “natural” when it comes to meat products. Because really, what does “natural” [...]
