The fragrant French breakfast melons at the Tuesday Culver City Farmers Market caught Crossroads reader Elizabeth’s eye. She wrote Fresh From the Farm, and inquired about non-traditional melon recipes – ones that treat melon as …[READ MORE]
What brings you to the Farmers Market? Great food, great principles and values, or great community? This weekend, I was listening to environmentalist and author Bill McKibben being interviewed by Public Media’s Krista Tippett on …[READ MORE]
“Toto, we’re not in Hershey, Pennsylvania, anymore” was my first thought when I tasted a sample of Chocovivo chocolate. A relatively new addition to the Tuesday Culver City Farmers Market, Chocovivo chocolate is stone-ground in …[READ MORE]
There’s the most amazing array of peppers at the Underwood Farms stand at the Tuesday Culver City Farmers Market. You’ll find a rainbow of colors and a generous assortment of shapes and sizes: light lemon …[READ MORE]
If you’re like me, your weekly shopping trips are timed around the Tuesday afternoon Culver City Farmers Market. By the time that Tuesday afternoon rolls around, my cupboards and refrigerator are not always completely bare, …[READ MORE]
Move over, Farmville. E. B. White’s award-winning book, Charlotte’s Web, has been the quintessential introduction to farm life for generations of American children and adults. Wilbur the pig, Charlotte the spider, Templeton the rat, and …[READ MORE]
Red, white, and blueberry! July is National Blueberry Month, so take advantage of the fresh blueberries for sale at the Tuesday Culver City Farmers Market and stock up. The blueberry is native to the northeastern …[READ MORE]
The full moon at the end of June (it was June 26) is called a Strawberry moon, because it is the full moon closest to the strawberry harvest. We’re lucky here in Southern California to …[READ MORE]
The peach is the state fruit of Georgia, but those Georgia peaches have nothing on the fresh peaches available at the Tuesday Culver City Farmers Market. California produces 65% of the fruit crop in our …[READ MORE]
What vegetable contains three times as much vitamin C as oranges, twice as much iron as spinach and can serve as a natural breath freshener? Parsley. That humble little sprig of green which garnishes so …[READ MORE]
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