Meet Your Farmer: Chris Whitney, Locktown Farm
by guest blogger Katie Lutzker, It's a crisp fall morning. Chris Whitney kneels down and pulls back straw from the beds of his summer garden to reveal beautiful, dark, loose soil, rich in...
Meet Your Farmer: Malaika Spencer, Roots to River Farm
The past ten years—the last five in particular—has seen a large influx of young farmers in Bucks County. They are passionate about growing healthy, fresh food using sustainable and organic practices. In...
Meet Your Farmer: Hershberger Heritage Farm
When you can't find good eggs or poultry, raise your own, right? That's what the Laytons decided to do and now they've got a whole farm. NOTE: The Laytons moved to a new...
Meet your farmer: Beef the way nature intended
Most of us want to eat healthier. Watch the news or read the papers and it can get a little overwhelming. Eat organic? Eat local? No antibiotics or growth hormones? And where...
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Winter Spice (in the Meatloaf)
Even when it seems like times are tough, there's much we can do to make ourselves feel better. Two words: "Comfort cooking." Jill Andresky Fraser, a financial writer whose blog EconoWhiner draws its name...
Thanksgiving in Wycombe: Going Local
I was never sure about this Thanksgiving. All along I'd imagined a big, warm gathering, our first Thanksgiving in our new home. I could see and feel it, even when reality kept...
Deer, Dogs and Turkeys
I'm still new enough to Wycombe that discovering a nest of deer bedded down in the hedge is a thrill. My neighbors, who are careful gardeners, are less thrilled, as is Cody,...