Meet Corn
By Jade Greene To celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day, we decided to sit down with an ear of corn to learn a little bit about them. From mysterious roots in Mexico thousands of years ago to becoming the biggest crop...
Fun Food FactsJust for fun!Nutrition & Health | 6 min read
By Jade Greene To celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day, we decided to sit down with an ear of corn to learn a little bit about them. From mysterious roots in Mexico thousands of years ago to becoming the biggest crop...
BCFA NewsBuying LocalCommunity NewsNutrition & HealthSupport for Local Farmers | 2 min read
We are thrilled, another season of our impactful Feed A Family Support A Family Farm Program is ready to go this year! The program aims to expand access to healthy local produce by providing excess produce from...
Buying LocalNutrition & Health | 2 min read
With the new year here, many of us wish to have a new start to habits and goals. Many new year's resolutions revolve around losing weight or being healthier. One of the best ways to be healthier is to adopt a local...
Advocacy & PolicyBCFA NewsBuying LocalCommunity NewsNutrition & HealthSupport for Local Farmers | 3 min read
Food insecurity and waste are both major issues impacting Bucks County and beyond. There are over 63,000 residents of Bucks County who are hungry or food insecure, including many children (1). When these residents...
BCFA NewsNutrition & HealthSupport for Local Farmers | 2 min read
BCFA is excited to share our program called Feed a Family Support a Family Farm! The program aims to expand access to healthy local produce by providing excess produce from local farmers at Doylestown and...
AgricultureBuying LocalFarmers' MarketsNutrition & HealthSupport for Local Farmers | 6 min read
It is 16 degrees outside, continuing into February what was a brutally cold January for southeastern Pennsylvania. The ground is frozen solid. Historically, the only local foods available this time of year were...
Fun Food FactsNutrition & HealthRecipes | 4 min read
By Chef Kelly Unger of The Rooster & The Carrot Cooking Studio farm to table cooking classes Purple, red, orange and white, sweet potatoes have tons of variety, lots of health benefits and so many uses....
Fun Food FactsNutrition & HealthRecipes | 4 min read
Recipe by Chef Kelly Unger I am a pumpkin spice latte, pumpkin spice everything, anything made with pumpkin kind of girl. Pumpkin bread, cookies, cake, pumpkin ravioli, pumpkin pasta sauce, pumpkin soup, stew,...
Fun Food FactsNutrition & Health | 2 min read
by Alex Dadio, Doylestown Farmers Market Manager pome /pōm/ noun BOTANY a fruit consisting of a fleshy enlarged receptacle and a tough central core containing the seeds, e.g., an apple or pear. Apples...
Farmers' MarketsNutrition & HealthRecipes | 3 min read
article and recipe by Chef Kelly Unger I always try to give you healthy if not balanced nutritional recipes to make the most of our delicious market ingredients. But this week, I’m throwing balance to the...
Fun Food FactsNutrition & Health | 2 min read
by Alex Dadio, Market Manager an·gi·o·sperm /ˈanjēəˌspərm/ nounBOTANY plural noun: angiosperms a plant that has flowers and produces seeds enclosed within a carpel. The angiosperms are a large group and include...
Fun Food FactsNutrition & HealthRecipes | 3 min read
Just saying the word basil makes me close my eyes and take a deep breath through my nose, as if I’m holding a bouquet of freshly picked basil and inhaling that sweet and spicy scent. I love basil. I love that there...
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