Living Local: Find Your Community

How can you make an impact on your local community? What impact does community have on the local food system and sustainability? Chuck Minguez of Door to Door Organics and Jeanna Kane of the Doylestown Food Co-op explore what it means to live locally. Chuck encourages people to go out and join in the change…

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A Few Good Bugs

It’s high summer and your garden is struggling—again. Your tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers have succumbed to beetles, cutworms, aphids, and slugs. You refuse to use pesticides (you’re a good person and you care about the environment) and you just don’t have time to pick these pests off one by one. You’re ready to toss…

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June 22: The Farm Roll

  Blue Moon Acres hosts The Farm Roll Sunday June 22nd, 8am-4 pm Scenic bike tour of areas farms, vineyards, and open spaces to benefit the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed. In partnership with: Jake Herway’s NJ Bike Tours 8:00am-9:00am Registration/Check-In 9:00am-1:30pm Rides and Farm Tours 1:30pm-3:30pm After-Party at Blue Moon Acres with live music, farm-to-table picnic, wine sampling, and…

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June 6 First Friday Event in Pennington

Join us Friday evening in Pennington for a First Friday Open House. In-store gallery featuring the works Hopewell Valley Regional School District’s Advanced Placement art class. Live music with the soulful Jim Arkus and samples with a local food producer. Complimentary snacks, beer, and wine. Stock up for the weekend and have fun while you’re…

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Spring Mix, from Seed to Plate

Let me first state that Spring Mix is just that- a mix of different lettuces and greens, not a certain type of seed or name of a plant. Some of us (*ahem. Myself*) not familiar with farming and growing things may not have known this. Now that we’ve got that cleared up… I hope you’ve…

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Hydroponics V. Soil

Hydroponically-grown. Soil-grown. Ever wonder what’s the difference? Hydroponic enthusiasts swear by their technology, and soil proponents swear by theirs. But which is better? Is one healthier than the other? And what about environmental impacts? Is one ‘greener’? In hydroponics, water replaces soil as the medium by which plants derive nutrition. A hydroponic system can be…

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Living Local: Know Your Producers!

What does it mean to live locally? How can you be a local citizen? Alex Jones of Fair Food Farmstand in Philadelphia suggests that getting to know your food producer–literally, the source of the food you are eating–will strengthen your civic pride. In her words: My suggestion would be to not only give your dollars…

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