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Category Archives: Wake County
Coming up: farm tour, party, picnic, local fish — and more!
No surprise that spring is positively bursting with farm/food news. At the top of my list is the Piedmont Farm Tour in the Triangle this weekend, sponsored by the awesome Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA). Everything about this yearly happening … Continue reading
Posted in Chatham County, Family travel, Farm Fresh events, Food, Livestock, Orange County, Poultry, Wake County
Tagged CFSA, Chapel Hill, CSF, farm internships, Farm to Fork Picnic, Fickle Creek Farm, local fish, Margaret's Cantina, Meet and Eat, Pie Pushers, Piedmont Farm Tour, sustainable seafood, Walking Fish
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Farm-food-photo events this week in Raleigh, Pittsboro
Thursday, March 17, at 7:30 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, 3522 Wade Ave., Raleigh. “Farm Fresh North Carolina” author Diane Daniel will host the conversation “From Farm to Fork” with chef and James Beard semifinalist Scott Crawford of Herons at The Umstead … Continue reading
Nice ‘Farm Fresh’ coverage in today’s Herald-Sun
Nice piece in today’s Herald Sun (my hometown paper!) on “Farm Fresh.” About this excerpt: “The Durham writer grew up in Raleigh and returned to the Triangle after several years in Florida and Boston. What she found was an area … Continue reading
Farm Fresh public party and other Triangle farm-food events
All “Farm Fresh North Carolina” events below are free and open to the public. Bring your farm-loving friends! Monday, March 7, at 6 p.m. at Fullsteam Brewery, 726 Rigsbee Ave, Durham. “Farm Fresh North Carolina” book launch party featuring farmers … Continue reading
Walk, talk, eat with Taste Carolina
Saturday was a lovely day for a gourmet food tour! I hopped aboard Taste Carolina’s downtown Durham tour, led on this day by local resident Dean Michaels. (Tours also are held in Raleigh and Chapel Hill-Carrboro, and starting in March, … Continue reading
Posted in Dining, Durham County, Food, Forsyth County, Guilford County, Orange County, Wake County
Tagged Carrboro, Chapel Hill, durham, food tours, LocoPops, Parker and Otis, Piedmont, Raleigh, Rue Cler, Scratch, Toast, Tyler's Taproom
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USDA second-in-command to speak Feb. 9
This from our friends at the The Center for Environmental Farming Systems: Kathleen A. Merrigan, Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), will speak in Greensboro and Raleigh on Wednesday, Feb. 9. Her talk is free and open … Continue reading
Posted in Farmers, Food policy, Guilford County, Wake County
Tagged Kathleen Merrigan
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NC farms win Animal Welfare Approved grants
Congrats to the several North Carolina farms that won Good Husbandry grants from Animal Welfare Approved. The Alexandria, Va.-based group’s standards are the most rigorous and progressive animal care requirements in the nation, and the only ones to require that … Continue reading
Sign up to cook; get free book
I’m excited about the new volunteer work I’ll start later this month with Cooking Matters, a program hosted by the Inter-faith Food Shuttle in Raleigh. After working on my book and being immersed in not only the farm world but … Continue reading
Chicken Keeping 101 in Raleigh on Oct. 30, 31, and Nov. 1
Veteran chicken-keeper Bob Davis will give his popular Chicken Keeping 101 presentation several times in Raleigh, and for the low, low price of $5. Bob’s home in Five Points is a charter stop on the annual Hen-side the Beltline Tour … Continue reading
Posted in Poultry, Wake County
Tagged backyard chickens, Bob Davis, fresh eggs, Hen-side the Beltline Tour de Coop, Tour d'Coop
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Jonathan Bloom talks (edible) trash in the Triangle
Food-waste expert, writer, and Durham resident Jonathan Bloom has three Triangle readings coming up, starting Thursday in Durham, based on his just-published book “American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About … Continue reading
We toyed with tradition, but fair still delivers
We tried a different tactic this year at the NC State Fair. After years of shuffling through the crowds, last week we arrived two hours after the fair opened its fall run. It was so squeaky clean you could smell … Continue reading
Global, local day of action is a 10
This is a lot of stuff, so I’ll try to keep it simple: A Triangle woman, Karen Bearden, has organized a multi- farm event as part of 350.org’s Global Work Party on 10/10/10. Volunteers will join to work at area … Continue reading
Posted in Franklin County, Orange County, Wake County
Tagged 350.org, Bill McKibben, Global Work Party, sustainable farming
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