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We're making available for loan a variety of CDs and tapes from the recent PASA and NOFA conferences. Check out this listing of what's available.
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BCFA is the cover story in the February 2010 edition of In Your Prime! Read the full story in our press clippings area.
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Monthly films, farm tours, speakers...
On the first Wednesday of each month the Foodshed Alliance meets to view informative, stimulating films, hear from local food or farming experts, or take tours of local, sustainable farms, and to hear news of various initiatives of the Foodshed Alliance. Check out Special Events for each month's details!
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Fresh and Local
Seeds Are Already Started in the Greenhouse.BCFA director Diana Cercone reports in "Dining In" in the Bucks County Herald. For Myron Kressman, farmer and patriarch of the family owned Trauger’s Farm and Market...
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Food Buying Club Starts in DoylestownThe Doylestown Food Club (DFC) aims to bring local consumers and local producers together, creating a self-sustaining local food economy, in which producers take care of the soil, plants, and animals; and consumers nourish themselves and their families while supporting local growers and producers.
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Monthly Winter Farm Markets at Wrightstown & New HopeThe Wrightstown Farmers' Market holds markets on the 2nd Saturday of each month from 10:00 to 11:00 AM at the regular market location, 2203 2nd Street Pike, Wrightstown, 18940. Pre-orders guarantee that you will get what you'd like and help farmers plan. To order sign up for emails on this page.
The New Hope Farmers' Market meets on the 3rd Thursday of each month from 4:30 to 5:30 pm at the New Hope-Solebury High School.
Local producers interviewed at Wrightstown Market!The New Hope Farmers' Market meets on the 3rd Thursday of each month from 4:30 to 5:30 pm at the New Hope-Solebury High School.
Local foodie Lynne Goldman writes about the Bucks County food scene. Look for her musings, interviews and upcoming events at Bucks County Taste http://buckscountytaste.com/ (interviews under Archives, June 2009, June 9)
Winter Farmers Market Opens in Stockton, NJSaturdays 9 AM - 3 PM, Sundays 10 AM - 3 PM
Indoors! 19 Bridge Street, Stockton New Jersey [More]
Indoors! 19 Bridge Street, Stockton New Jersey [More]
Stories You May Have Missed...
What Will We Eat as the Oil Runs Out? by Richard HeinbergHeinberg details four simultaneous dilemmas that are coinciding today to create a modern food crisis, then spells out a global plan of action which includes a "fundamental reform of agriculture bigger than anything we have seen in many decades". Read his full lecture here.
The True Cost of Cheap FoodBryan Walsh spells out the environmental, health and animal costs of cheap food in a searing cover story report in Time magazine's August 21, 2009 issue. Read the full text here.
White House Farmers MarketEncouraging news article on Grist.org! Board member, Cookie Biggs, comments: "Just think, a few years from now it could be taken for granted that we buy our produce locally, that schools serve up fresh meals sourced from local farms, and that every kid knows first-hand what a carrot or potato looks like straight out of the ground. " (Article follows) [More]
Organic Farms as Subdivision AmenitiesIncreasingly, subdivisions, usually master-planned developments at which buyers buy home sites or raw land, have been treating farms as an amenity. “There are currently at least 200 projects that include agriculture as a key community component,” said Ed McMahon, a senior fellow with the Urban Land Institute. Appelbaum, Alec. NYT July 1, 2009. Full article follows. [More]
Living Green
Can We Afford to Delay?The 2008 Food, Conservation, and Energy Act included a provision to help beginning or socially disadvantaged farmers. But its implementation has been delayed. Can we afford to delay?
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Urban Beekeeping: Is it in Your Future?Many urbanites are turning to beekeeping partially in response to Colony Collapse Disorder. Is beekeeping for you? [More]
Save the Environment--CompostComposting food scraps and yard waste diverts material from the landfills, reduces greenhouse gases, and provides the home gardener with nutrient-rich soil. Explore methods of composting...and get started today! [More]