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Simple, Good, and Tasty Dinner at Heartland Tonight

Posted in Out & About on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 11:08am by lee -

Just a quick reminder for those of you who responded early enough to get one of this month’s coveted spots at the Simple, Good, and Tasty dinner at Heartland - tonight’s the night! Here are the details:

Fresh and Tasty at the St. Paul Farmers Market This Week

Posted in Out & About on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 10:47am by lee -

Tracy Morgan is a Twin Cities foodie and the owner of Segnavia Creative, a marketing services consulting company located in St. Paul, MN. I’m thrilled to have her contribute (posts and pictures) to Simple, Good, and Tasty.

Strawberry Picking at Harmony Valley

Posted in Farms & Gardens on Mon, 06/22/2009 - 10:59am by lee -

Strawberry Day at Harmony Valley Farm in Viroqua, WI was just about everything I hoped it would be - loads of gorgeous strawberries to pick, a fun group of people to pick them with (carloads of people from the Twin Cities and Madison, mostly - where Harmony Valley drops off a combined 1100 vegetables shares each week), and a pot luck lunch that would make anybody proud to be a Midwesterner. The best thing about the pot luck - besides the fact that it went on forever and was replenished constantly - was that every one of us has just about the same groceries.

Have a Toast and Taste at the Arboretum

Posted in Out & About on Mon, 06/22/2009 - 10:54am by lee -

[UPDATE: I just got a note with a few more details from Judy Hohmann, Manager, Marketing & Public Relations for the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum:

"New this year are ‘green’ prize drawings including two sets of touring bicycles, cooking classes at the Arboretum, signed cookbooks, basket of natural soaps and balms made in Waconia by SunLeaf Naturals, etc.

We’re using compostable party ware. People can reserve online at www.arboretum.umn.edu/toastandtaste.aspx or call 952-443-1400."]

The Great Scapes

Posted in Recipes on Fri, 06/19/2009 - 11:02am by lee -

Before last week, I didn’t know what garlic scapes were. I’d never seen them, smelled them, or touched them, and I most certainly did not know where they came from. But our Harmony Valley farm share delivered local, organic scapes to Minneapolis last week - and oh, how far my family has come in one short week.

According to Mother Earth News:

This Week’s Box of Farmshare Goodies

Posted in Farms & Gardens on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 11:05am by lee -

6/18 UPDATE: I just got an email from Terri Kromenaker at Harmony Valley. She points out that “the fruit share is NOT necessarily local – try as we might, there just aren’t a lot of Midwest organic growers, so much of the fruit comes from the west coast. We’ll get WI cranberries in the late fall, hopefully some WI/MN apples in the fall and maybe some blueberries from MI this summer, but this week’s box is all Cali, I’m afraid.” Thanks for the clarification, Terri. I’m sorry for the error!

Greg Reynolds from Riverbend Farm Describes His Old Potato Picker

Posted in Farms & Gardens on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 10:42am by lee -

A 90 second video from our day planting onions with folks from the Birchwood Cafe and Common Roots Cafe at Riverbend Farm. It’s a short, worthwhile watch that gives you a sense of the equipment out there (not all of it still in use) and what Greg Reynolds is all about. Riverbend supplies organic produce to many restaurants in the Twin Cities.

6/21 is Strawberry Day at Harmony Valley Farm

Posted in Farms & Gardens on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 4:23am by lee -

After all of this blogging about the local, organic Minnesota food we’ve been getting from the Harmony Valley Farm CSA, I’m excited to finally get the chance to visit the place. Harmony Valley has named Sunday, June 21 Strawberry Day, offering farm tours, strawberry picking, and other fun activities for the whole family from noon to 6 pm. Here are the details of the event, straight from the Harmony Valley site: