Garbage Goes Gourmet: Offal and Weeds

A collection of foods that have been excluded from the American diet but are finding their way back in with star power. Bits of offal – liver, spleen, and hearts from local butcher Jake Dickson of Dickson’s Farmstand Meats and marrow bones from Grazin Angus Acres, a local Grassfed Angus ranch in Ghent, NY are [...]

Monkshood Nursery and Gardens: Born Charismatic and Organic, now leaning toward a Biodynamic future.

How are you? I am David, forty thousand onions later. Tell me the story behind the naming of your farm. I was going to call it something like the nice herb garden at the end of the pathway, or something like that. On the way to the DBA (doing business as) place, I started to [...]

A Can Opening Kind of Weekend

This year I took advantage of the summer bounty and learned to can.  In case you are not familiar, canning at home means preserving food in jars.  In my opinion its an art and one in which I had never dabbled. I followed my roommates lead,  she had canned before,  and the sage advice found [...]

Mushrooms, Medicine, and Culinary Magic with Dan Madura

photo credit: Tom Giebel Dan Madura is the owner of MycoMedicinals, the premier Mushroom distributer of the New York City Greenmarket system. Upon approaching him for this interview, he wanted to clarify that he is not an entrepreneur, but happy to help you anyway he can. If I know anything about good business it’s an [...]

Cayuga in the Field: Local Grain Rising

Is it even possible to grow grains and beans in New York soil? New to the Greenmarket, Cayuga Pure Organics proves the answer is undoubtedly yes. The first vendor selling locally grown grains, beans and flours in New York, Cayuga’s liaison to the world, Tycho Dan talked with me about the business of beans and [...]

Welcome to Stay Local Food News

Welcome to Stay Local Food News Stay Local Newsletter will focus on sustainable food, what it is and what it is not, and how to get some on your plate. My goal here and (in life, it seems) is to attract people to and inform them of the specifics associated with creating and sustaining a local food [...]

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