Here is a super simple recipe for a special favorite, grilled peaches - local peaches are in-season now and are oh so delicious! 

Grill Season is in full swing! 
Get the top tips for grilling local veggies (abundantly available at your local farm or farmers market) here! Leftover grilled veggies are great reheated in the toaster oven with a lemon squeeze, layered on pizza, made into a wonderful sandwich with cheese, mayo or veganaise, or even blended into a sauce to add to a pasta sauce or marinara of your choice. You can never have too many grilled veggies!

Here is what our grant recipients are saying about the Small Farm Grant Program.

BCFA is so proud to offer farm tours as part of our mission to educate and connect consumers. We have visited over 27 different farms and shared meals and knowledge.  The two farms we have toured so far in 2019 were Tussock Sedge and Fulper Family Farmstead.  Although very different, both farms have cows in common.  

On average retirees between ages 65 and 74 have seven to eight hours of leisure time, according to data from the American Time Use Survey conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. You spend your working years wishing you had more free time, and then get overwhelmed by the bucket loads of free time and space that is dumped on you during retirement. Some spend most of this leisure time watching television, but a number of older adults in Bucks County take up gardening.  A hobby like gardening is ideal because you can alter it to fit you evolving retirement lifestyle. It can also be a way to keep you physically and mentally fit.

"On this June day the buds in my garden are almost as enchanting as the open flowers. Things in bud bring, in the heat of a June noontide, the recollection of the loveliest days of the year - those days of May when all is suggested, nothing yet fulfilled."

Its summertime in the garden! Weeds love it now as much as your preferred vegetables do, so here is an easy tip to control weeds.

Cage Free Eggs:
"Cage-free" means that the chickens raised as poultry or the hens laying "cage-free" eggs are, quite simply, not kept in cages. They are free to walk around the hen house, to perch on roosts, and to lay eggs in nests.
"Cage-free" chickens are kept in poultry barns, often in cramped conditions, and may or may not have access to outdoors and pasture.

Free-Range Eggs:

The technical meaning of "Free-Range" as regulated by the USDA calls for poultry to be "allowed access to the outside."

As you might imagine, that phrase can be interpreted generously or quite narrowly. Some farmers let their free-range chickens roam on real fields and pastures. Larger producers, however, have been known to follow only the letter of the law, not its spirit, and put an open window or small door that leads to a paved patch of ground at one end of a large, crowded hen house.

Henry Rosenberg, his family and many fine farm hands took thirty visitors on a  farm tour at dusk for the BCFA farm tour and potluck on June 5, the first of our summer tours for the season!