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A Sweet Discovery in Jamaica Plain…and Maybe Your Neighborhood, Too!

I headed over to Stillman’s Farmers Market at the Loring-Greenough House in my beloved Jamaica Plain to pick up some fresh local tomatoes on Thursday afternoon and was charmed to see a little white food truck parked in the driveway.  … Continue reading

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A Tasty Bite of the Big Apple

Michelle and I just got back from six delicious days in New York City. Although we had some great meals—more on that below—I was actually more excited about the amazing produce we spotted in all parts of the city. From … Continue reading

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Wanna Buy 50,000 Pounds of Local Tomatoes?

It sounds like a joke: How do you unload 50,000 pounds of ripe heirloom tomatoes? Very carefully. For City Growers, a start-up based in Roxbury, Mass. , this challenge is just another “growing pain.” In 2010, its first year of … Continue reading

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Baltimore’s 32nd Street Farmers Market: Hula Hoops, 7-Up Pound Cake, and Slurpy-Ripe Peaches

From hula hoops and honey to bison meat and baked goods, the year-round 32nd Street Farmer’s Market in Baltimore is the market I wish we had in Boston. This barren parking lot behind a 7-11 is not a place I’d … Continue reading

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Is Local Food in a Pickle?

Interest in local foods is starting to spread faster than mint in a garden.  Despite the growing demand, the folks who make and sell local foods are often in a pickle: how can they produce and deliver fresh local foods … Continue reading

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Hot Day, Cool Market

It was another sizzling hot day in Boston, but opening day at the Community Servings Farmers Market in Jamaica Plain on Wednesday, July 7, was pretty cool in all senses of the word. I volunteered for a few hours and … Continue reading

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