Posts Tagged ‘Blue Moon Acres’
8 Things We Love about Spring
1. Cooking with fava beans and asparagus Ashley Lyons, Sales Manager 2. Sleeping with the windows open Emily Boell, Market Manger, Sales 3. Strawberries from Manoff Market Gardens Jeremy Tucker, Sales, Delivery Driver 4. Exchanging jackets for t-shirts 5. Seeing the first flowers blooming Josh Goldsmith, Assistant Market Manager 6. Kayaking in Bucks County Natalie…
Read More »Pasture-Raised Eggs for Dummies!
There’s a new egg in town. A pastured egg. Actually, these little ladies have been around for ages, but are only now getting the recognition they deserve. So what are they? And why should you care? Simply put, pastured eggs—or pasture-raised eggs as they’re sometimes called—are eggs hatched from hens that live on pastures. These…
Read More »Winter on the Farm
If you’re like me, you’ve always wondered what goes on at a farm in the winter. You too have imagined farmers burrowing into the barren soil and remaining there, in a state of hibernation, until the warm weather returns. (Or at least sitting around watching Little House on the Prairie reruns.) For most farms, however,…
Read More »Geothermal Energy Comes to Pennington!
If you’ve been to our Pennington market, you’ve already experienced it—and probably didn’t even know it. What am I talking about, you ask? Geothermal energy. Our market, harvest room, and upstairs living quarters are regulated using a horizontal geothermal heating/cooling system. Geothermal energy, in its most basic form, is energy that is generated and stored…
Read More »Exciting New Restaurant Coming to Doylestown!
Genevieve DiFilippo is about to realize a life-long dream—again. The owner of the Geneveive’s, the popular Panini shop in downtown Doylestown, is opening another restaurant. “Since I was 14, I always wanted to have my own restaurant,” she says. Her new place will be called, simply, Genevieve’s Kitchen, and will feature a fusion of…
Read More »Fall Food Festival
[dropcap]B[/dropcap]lue Moon Acres and Door to Door Organics Tri-State invite you to enjoy the Fall Food Festival at Blue Moon’s Pennington, New Jersey location on November 2nd from 11-4 PM. Bring your friends and family out to enjoy a delicious spread of fall’s bounty from Blue Moon Acres and other nearby farms, as well as…
Read More »Seven Cool Ways to Get Your Compost On!
Imagine a pile of trash 2000 feet tall, one mile wide, and 85 million tons heavy. An enormous pile, almost large enough to be seen from space. That’s how much compostable waste Americans discard in a single year. According to the EPA, food scraps and yard waste account for 20 to 30 percent of what…
Read More »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 »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…
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