I love this wedding video created by an (obviously) charming couple (Tara and Richard) in New Hampshire. I can’t help myself (maybe I’m being slightly cheesy and sentimental)…but I think I speak for all my farmers market organizing cohorts….THIS IS WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO… – Rochelle
p.s. Scavenger hunt details coming soon!!
Liz over at Hyperlocalvore recently posted an interesting calculation about yard sharing and going hyperlocal – as in growing your own — that presents some interesting calculations. She figures that if you yard share (with 2 other people) 2 apple trees, 15 blueberry bushes and 4 almond trees, that over 20 years you can actually make a profit of over $61,000 (by pure re-invested savings)… and by that calculation, if you don’t yard share, and instead bring your extra goods to the market to sell you can make over $320,000 — all for a very modest investment of $1700 — check out her #’s and let us know what you think.
Oh, and we are sending out applications for our 2010 season now, so email us if you have some extra fruit trees that you are ready to make some $$ from.
It is the dead of winter but we are looking forward to spring and have started our planning for year 4 of the Harvard Farmers Market. Would you like to help us out? We can really use some extra hands. We have lots of jobs for all kinds of volunteers. Please email us or leave a note in the comments if you would like to get more involved.
Asiago Sweet Potatoes
serves 4
4 T olive oil
2 T fresh thyme leaves
2 medium sweet potatoes (or 1 1/2 large), sliced thin
2 small onions, sliced thin
2 c grated Asiago cheese
Preheat oven to 400F. In a casserole dish, drizzle 2 T olive oil, and sprinkle 1 T thyme. Layer sweet potato slices, slightly overlapping, followed by onions. Sprinkle with a handful of Asiago. Repeat, layering sweet potatoes, onion, and Asiago, until no ingredients remain, about 5-7 layers total. Drizzle with 2 T olive oil and sprinkle with 1 T thyme.
Transfer to oven, and bake until potatoes are cooked through, and cheese is brown and bubbling, about 45 minutes.
Harvard’s Kelly Bollman of Simple Balance will be back at the Market this week with more awesome raw food! Her booth was packed a few weeks ago (see earlier post and recipe) and this week she’s preparing Green Smoothies. Stop by and taste a free sample from Kelly’s magical blender!
Want to make them at home? Recipes below are provided by Simple Balance, www.aboutsimplebalance.com.
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Sweet Green Smoothie Recipes: |
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Apple-Banana-Parsley 2 apples (peel and seed if using a regular blender) 1 ripe banana 1/3 bunch of flat leaf parsley (remove stems if using regular blender) 2 cups water (add more if desired) |
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Blueberry-Apple-Banana: 2 cups blueberries 2 apples 1 banana 3-5 leaves Swiss Chard (remove stalks if using regular blender) 2 cups water (add more if desired) |
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| Peach-Spinach: 6 peaches 2 handfuls of spinach leaves 2 cups water (add more if desired)
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