Food Terms You Need to Know
100 Percent Organic
- Can be used to label any product that contains 100 percent organic ingredients. Raw, unprocessed farm products can be designated 100 percent organic and many value-added farm products like grain flours or oats can also be labeled this.
Organic
- Can be used to label any product that contains a minimum of 95 percent organic ingredients. Up to 5 percent may be non-organic agricultural products.
Made with Organic Ingredients
- Can be used to label a product that contains at least 70 percent organically produced ingredients.
Natural
- Food does not contain artificial ingredients or preservatives and the ingredients are minimally processed. However, they may contain antibiotics, growth hormones, and other chemicals.
Opening Day at Wrightstown Farmers Market
Winner of 2019 Best of Bucks Farmers Market, The Wrightstown Farmers Market is thrilled to be opening its 14th season on Saturday, May 4th from 9 am - 1 pm at 2203 Second Street Pike.
Read moreCelebrate National Flour Month with Castle Valley Mill
March is also National Flour Month and it's a good time to think about the flour you are using. If you visit our local farmers markets then you know who your vegetable farmer is and you know who your meat farmer is. But who is your wheat farmer?? Have you ever thought of that? What's in that 5 lb bag of shelf stable flour you buy at the grocery store? And who grew it, and how? What level of quality is this flour and what effect does it have on my health?
Read moreNational Poultry Day
March 19th is National Poultry Day (yes, really) and we'd like to highlight that fact that we connect you with local, pasture raised poultry (and everything else local) through our two farmers markets.
Read moreTriumph Farm Dinner
Our friends at Triumph Brewing are hosting their second farm dinner. Two of our board members attended the first dinner and had high praises for its deliciousness. We highly recommend you attend this one if you can.
Ramping Up for Ramps
Every Spring my fellow chefs and I eagerly await ramps - nature's trumpet blast that Spring has actually arrived. Since these wild alliums/leeks are foraged, highly perishable and scarce, we plan nervously and excitedly the many ways we will use them "this year", to correct any misdeeds or lack of preparedness from last year. Ramps are the New Year's Eve party of vegetables. And you hope you get invited to this exclusive party. We guard our sources like our social security number, maybe even closer. We get a little nuts but ramps are one of the first Spring vegetables and have such a fleeting moment. Asparagus lasts a while but ramps, you're lucky if you get two weeks. If they were cultivated perhaps the anticipation would not be so great. But they are wild and we are crazy... for them.
Read moreDoylestown Farmers Market Opening Day
Doylestown Farmers Market's opening day is Saturday April 20th from 8 am to 1 pm. Join us for all of your favorites and new vendors too!
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Growing Herbs through the Seasons
On February 5, 2019, Bucks County Foodshed Alliance presented "Growing Herbs through the Seasons" at the Newtown Township Building in Newtown. The program was led by Linda Shanahan, Co-owner of Barefoot Botanicals. Linda taught the 60+ attendees how to grow herbs for culinary and medicinal use all year round.
Read moreHearty Winter Vegetable Soup
January is National Soup Month and the brisk weather makes it the perfect time to curl up with a warm bowl of soup. Try this recipe for a hearty winter vegetable soup. Remember that many of these ingredients can be found locally at Wrightstown Indoor Winter Farmers Market, Winter CSAs, and the Doylestown Food Market. Enjoy!
Read moreDIY Cold Frame Gardening
Adapted from The Fruit Guys Community Fund
Cold frame gardening can extend your growing season. Traditionally cold frames were placed against the south facing wall of a heated green place. They are the perfect place to grow cool weather crops and to harden off seedlings each Spring before transplanting them outside.