FEATURES

Strawberry fields forever?
Dan and Marnie MacLean have been offering strawberries to the you-pick crowd for nearly two decades. But they don't come easy--to produce well, the MacLean's orangic strawberries must be tended, and tended, and tended...
by Tracy Frisch

Eat local and laugh part 3: We're all in this together
You may not like it, but people both inside and outside of your immediate social circles may have a hugh influence on what, where and how you eat.
by Todd Essig

On stonewalls & stoneware
When a potter creates a dish or a bowl or a cup, it's seldom perfect. You might call it art, or you might call it a utilitarian object, but like an old stone wall that follows the contour of a hill, its beauty (the potter's art) can never be separated from its function.
by Jane Herold

Compost that!
Making compost is almost fun--after all, you get to play with dirt. But whether you make a compost pile or use a compost bin, the results are the same--some very serious dirt.
by Helenna Bratmann

DEPARTMENTS/COLUMNS

Good Stuff: Saving a CSA; Saving an apple tree; New calendar; Local food challenge; Farm-to-chef dinner.
Eating by the Season: Eggs. by Anne Dailey - READ IT NOW
New Crop: Dan Madura. - READ IT NOW
New Crop: KayCee Wimbish and Owen O'Connor. - READ IT NOW
Locally Grown: Breakdrown: Perils of the truck farming life. by Keith Stewart
By the Glass: Judgment Day. by Steven Kolpan - READ IT NOW
KItchen Garden: Perennially yours. by Barry Ballister - READ IT NOW
The Chef & Farmer: Erik Johansen of Iron Forge Inn and Alan Ochs of Ochs Orchard. - READ IT NOW
Saving the Season: Strawberries. - READ IT NOW
On the plate: Chicken liver toast.

Events: June-July 08

Openings: Woody's All Natural; La Cienega; Bread Alone Cafe; Harvest at Greenwood Lake..

Books: Endangered food; new books from Michael Pollan, Mark Winne and Joel Salatin.

Fabulous Farms, Food and Markets

RECIPES

Breakfast pizza (Chef Claudia Levesque/Homespun Foods);
Frozen lemon souffle (Leonard Mott/Le Chambord);
Spaghetti carbonara (Eric Gabrynowicz/Tavern);
Marnie's classic strawberry jam (Marnie MacLean);
Strawberry margarita (Marnie MacLean);
Chicken liver toast (Kevin Katz/The Red Onion)

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