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Friends & Farmers Cooperative to hold Membership Meeting and Elections Nov. 5

Posted by Jamie Oberdick on 10/27 at 08:57 AM

Friends & Farmers Cooperative will hold its 2016 Membership Meeting and Election on Saturday, Nov. 5 from 4:00-6:30 p.m. at the State College Friends School. The Membership Meeting is open to members and any community members interested in joining the co-op.

Co-op members will vote on their democratically elected board. For a full list of candidates, head to http://www.friendsandfarmers.coop/2016_board_elections.

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Local Food Notes for Oct. 21

Posted by Jamie Oberdick on 10/21 at 09:32 AM

This week’s Local Food Notes features two festivals, and a reminder that farmers markets are still going!

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The work involved getting that great local restaurant food on your fork

Posted by Jamie Oberdick on 10/18 at 09:58 AM

Editors Note: This article was originally written for inclusion in Passages, a journal of the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture.

So, you’re at your favorite farm-to-table/local food hotspot, awaiting your meal. Let’s say you ordered grilled rainbow trout, raised at a fish farm 15 miles down the road. On the side, you got garlic smashed potatoes made with ingredients that first sprouted at a farm 11 miles away, and a mixed sauteed vegetable dish that features veggies from a farmette just five miles down the road.

Sounds good and now you’re hungry, right?

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Fall festivals aplenty this weekend in central Pennsylvania

Posted by Jamie Oberdick on 10/14 at 08:59 AM

One of the best things about autumn is the fall festival. This weekend, there’s plenty of them to choose from. So many, one could do spend an entire day doing a “festival crawl” of sorts.

To help you figure out which one (or which two, three, or four) to check out, we put together a handy list of them:

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Fall garden edition of WPSU’s Conversations Live offers up some helpful tips

Posted by Jamie Oberdick on 10/11 at 08:19 AM

For some of us, the frost this morning ended the garden season. For others who covered or grow cold hardy vegetables, things are still going but drawing to a close.

WPSU’s Conversations Live recently had an episode where host Patty Satalia was joined by Tom Butzler, a Penn State extension horticulture educator; Rob Crassweller, a horticulture professor at Penn State; and Carla Hass, a member of Penn State’s Master Gardener program and senior lecturer in Penn State’s Eberly College of Science. The four of them discussed how to get your garden ready for fall.

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Fall wine and food pairings

Posted by Linda Weaver on 10/05 at 06:59 AM

Before we know it, the harvest is in, the grapes have been pressed, and we’re raking grape leaves! We are also spending a little more time indoors and pulling out those favorite fall recipes. What follows are several seasonal wine and food pairing suggestions.

In all wine and food pairings, there are four basic components to consider: sweet, sour, salt, and bitter. The trick is to find one component in the dish and then either find a wine that contrasts or emulates it. Here goes, and enjoy!

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