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...
Oct 2023 1
Nutrition & Health
Jun 2023 1
Feed A Family Support A Family Farm Program is Back in 2023!
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...
Jan 2023 1
Resolving to Eat Better
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...
Nov 2022 5
BCFA Fights Food Insecurity and Waste
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...
May 2022 1
Feed A Family Support A Family Farm Program
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...
Feb 2022 9
Local Winter Growing
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...
Nov 2021 30
Seasonal Spotlight: The Sweet Potato
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....
Oct 2021 21
Seasonal Spotlight: Pumpkins
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,...
Oct 2021 8
Celebrating the Apple
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...
Oct 2021 4
Seasonal Spotlight: Apples!
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...
Sep 2021 2
Celebrating Peppers!
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...
Aug 2021 30
Seasonal Spotlight: Basil
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...
