'Get Foodie' Debuts with Co-op Sponsorship
Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:16
By Kristie Snyder,
GreenLeaf Editor
Carisa Fallon has wanted to do a cooking show since her daughter Rebecca, now nine, was a baby. “I’ve always loved to cook, and my mom did organic gardening so I had exposure to healthy choices,” she said.
'The Good Life' Is Sustainable, and Sweet, Too
Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:17
By Kristie Snyder,
GreenLeaf Editor
It’s not easy growing fresh vegetables through the depths of a Finger Lakes winter. But Melissa Madden and Garrett Miller of the Good Life Farm in Interlaken have been supplying GreenStar with fresh greens since November, as they work toward building their young farm into a long-term, sustainable, permaculture enterprise.
Perched on a hillside overlooking Cayuga Lake, and largely powered by horse, human and dog, the 69-acre farm was named in homage to both Helen and Scott Nearing (the homesteading pioneers whose famous 1954 book about their “Forest Farm” is titled Living the Good Life) and to Mark Shepard, who mentored Madden and Miller on his “New Forest Farm” in Wisconsin. And, says Madden, “the good life is what we want to provide!”
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It's high time to dream up your 2012 garden! At GreenStar this means we've replaced our citrus donation drive in the foyer with seeds. They're as lovely as it gets from , whose popular Art Packs feature "heirloom seeds and contemporary art, all in one pack." We've carried these before, and this year we add HVSL's Library Packs, containing seeds grown and processed by small, sustainable farms in the Hudson Valley. We've also got seeds from the inspiring Vermont-based High Mowing Organic Seeds, which swiftly grew from a one-man backyard production to an enterprise contracting with many organic farmers from a number of locales in the nation. HMOS prides itself on its hundreds of heirloom, open-pollinated, and hybrid varieties of veggies, fruits and flowers. Come get inspired and equipped! As of press time, we don't have a total for January's citrus sale donation to the National Center for Farmworker Health, but we'll let you know the amount raised in next month's GreenLeaf. Thanks for supporting this effort! If you didn't get a chance to buy citrus, you can donate directly to the NCFH at www.ncfh.org.
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