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Soil. The Other Black Gold.
When we think about natural resource depletion, most of us think fossil fuels, fresh water, or helium. Few would imagine our planet ever running out of topsoil. Yet according to a recent Cornell University study, that’s precisely what’s happening—at a rate of 10 to 40 percent a year, one of our most precious resources is…
Read More »The Chefs’ Bookshelf- Part 2
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Chefs’ Bookshelf Cookbook Recommendations from Blue Moon’s Favorite Chefs: Part 2 Max Hansen Chef and Owner, Max Hansen Catering, Max Hansen Carversville Grocery, Bucks County Recommended Cookbooks: Plenty (Yotem Ottolenghi) and Seven Fires: Grilling the Argentine Way (Francis Mallmann) As a committed carnivore, Seven Fires is Max’s absolute favorite with its “amazing meat cookery.” Plenty,…
Read More »Relocalization’s Triumph
Pick up a menu at Triumph Brewery New Hope and you’ll notice something special: it’s all local. That’s right. For just under a year now, the upscale brew-pub has been committed to sourcing exclusively from local farms, wholesalers, distilleries, and vineyards. It’s the kind of quixotic experiment you privately shake your head at—until it succeeds.…
Read More »The Chefs’ Bookshelf- Part 1
On Monday night I asked 20 different chefs for cookbook recommendations. By Tuesday morning I had received more than 10 recommendations. I was shocked and incredibly excited. Getting answers from chefs, when you aren’t in a kitchen with them, can be difficult. So it seemed that I had stumbled upon the perfect question, with answers…
Read More »It’s a Banana Split Kind of Weekend
Maybe you’ve had a long week. I know we here at the farm have—big harvests, small harvests, sudden intense rainstorms, launch of a new database… we are just Spent. Luckily for all of us- at least, those who live within a 50-mile radius of central Bucks County- our friends and neighbors and oWowCow have a…
Read More »How to Make a Stand.
In the fall of 2012 something radical happened in the Blue Moon sales office: Rebecca and I threw our chairs out the window. Well, okay: we didn’t actually throw our chairs anywhere, but we did push them to the far side of the office. It was something we’d often fantasized about—instead of sitting while working,…
Read More »Introducing your friendly Blue Moon bloggers: Rebecca Van Wagner
Hey! I’m excited to be sharing a different side of Blue Moon here with you on the blog. I’ll be sharing information on the products we grow (and how we grow them), some recipes, and other fun things. I work at Blue Moon Acres’ Buckingham office, handling all aspects of our customer care, serving as…
Read More »Introducing your friendly Blue Moon bloggers: Jeremy Tucker
This next blog is all about me. Literally. It’s about the person responsible for roughly half of all our forthcoming blogs. I for one could not be happier. Shameless self-promotion, after all, is one of my favorite pastimes. I came to Blue Moon Acres in August of 2012, after nearly two decades in the…
Read More »The Birth of a Blue Moon Blog.
So here it is. The moment you’ve been waiting for. Blue Moon’s first ever… blog. That’s right—blog. As in: “A Website on which an individual or group of users record information, etc., on a regular basis.” So much unrecorded information has been accruing in the twenty-plus years we’ve been growing high-quality microgreens that we’re going…
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