Feed Your Brain

Storing Your Organic Fruits

We have been enjoying the fresh organic fruits this summer, especially the local blueberries, peaches, and melons.  Thank you Mirit.  As part II to an earlier post – Storing Your Organic Produce , where I listed how to store vegetables, I would like to share tips and tricks to extend the life of your fresh organic fruits, without plastic.

We have been moving more and more to paper bags for storage in the refrigerator.  You can [...]

Organic Gardening

COULD BP'S DISPERSANTS CAUSE APOCALYPTIC RAINS?

BIRDS AND VEGETATION ARE DYING…
Widespread Mysterious Crop Damage Near Gulf Oil Spill Area

Feed Your Brain

Storing your Organic Produce

stored vegetables

We all have the same question.

How do I store the different vegetables or fruits from this weeks Harvest?

Often just putting them in the refrigerator accelerates the problem and they dry out. But we all try to make our fresh organic fruits and vegetables remain that way as long as we can. During Harvest Day we have learned that green leafy plants love to be stored in wet towels with flake ice on top of them, [...]

Community

Green Winters

Green Winters
A new distribution center location in Ormond Beach for fresh organic produce.

Green Winters is an organic garden center in Ormond Beach with native and edible plants. We are so excited to have found a great location  for pick up and delivery of fresh organic produce.  Green Winters will benefit our members with their selection of native plants and organic garden supplies. We want to thank [...]

Community

Flagler Beach Community Garden @ Montessori School Wickline Center

The community garden has been a quietly growing project.  Most residents of Flagler Beach don’t even know its there.  But the kids at the Montessori School know its there.  They’ve been playing around it, decorating and even helping out occasionally.

Kerri head of the Montessori School in Flagler Beach is behind the community garden along with Bryan Anderson.  Bryan brings his excellent skills to the garden and is devoted to making sure it stays [...]

Organic Gardening

Government bill could reduce produce from small local farmers

crops

Sunday, November 15, 2009
By Mark Binker
Staff Writer – News-Record.com

RALEIGH — There’s no need to wonder where the collard greens or tomatoes came from that are on sale at Whitaker Farms’ stall at the Piedmont Triad Farmers Market.

They came right from Richard and Faylene Whitaker’s Randolph County farm fields or greenhouse. The farm has developed such a reputation among local veggie lovers that something curious happened in 2008 when a salmonella outbreak had folks running [...]

Organic Gardening

P & T Farms

three-chestnuts

P & T Farms is an organically grown chestnut farm in Madison County, Florida.  The owners live in Flagler Beach.  2009 harvest  is their first and we are really proud to offer it.  P and T farms was created in 2005 and will have over 500 organic chestnut trees when capacity is reached.  This first harvest was from about 100 tress.

The chestnuts display a wonderful color and are sweet and tender after roasting.  If you [...]