Blogging out hunger: Helping the FoodBank of New Jersey
“‘At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,’ said the gentleman, taking up a pen, ‘it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who...
View ArticleLocavore odds and ends: The get right to it version
Heading straight to the odds and ends today. America’s Grow a Row has one last volunteer opportunity for the season. They need volunteers on Monday, November 15th up at Peaceful Valley Orchards in...
View ArticleHelp NJ based America’s Grow a Row win $250,000
America’s Grow a Row is a North Jersey based volunteer organization that grows food to donate to food pantries. Through partner farms that donate land for crops and volunteers that plant, grow, and...
View ArticleJersey Fresh is front and center at Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation’s pay what...
There’s no way you can be from New Jersey and not have a great appreciation for Jon Bon Jovi. Even if his music isn’t to your taste, he puts his love for our state out there in such a way that no one...
View ArticleAmple Harvest can hook you up with a local food pantry where you can donate...
I’ve got so much to write about, and very little time at the moment. I’m dying to write up my Mother’s Day visit to Amalthea Cellars, but that’s going to have to wait probably until next week. The...
View ArticleVolunteering at the Food Bank of South Jersey
Last night I went to volunteer training at the Food Bank of South Jersey in Pennsauken. I decided that my family needed a service project for the summer and something to do with food just seemed like a...
View ArticleLocavore odds and ends: Harvest, harvest everywhere
Yesterday, Alli from All I Eat Food and I went to the Moorestown Kitchen Kapers to meet Emeril Lagasse and have him sign copies of his latest cookbook, Sizzling Skillets and Other One Pot Wonders. I’m...
View ArticleLocavore odds and ends: ‘Twas the weekend before Thanksgiving
Are you ready? Yeah, me neither. But I will be. I love Thanksgiving. Tomorrow, I’ll head to the Collingswood Farmers Market (it’s the last market of the season) to pick up my pre-ordered turkey, and...
View ArticleFirst look at the summer edition of ‘Edible Jersey’ with my feature about...
I’m really excited that I finally got a copy of the Summer 2012 edition of Edible Jersey. My first feature piece for the publication that’s part of Edible Communities, a James Beard Award Winning group...
View ArticleCheck out my feature about New Jersey Grange in Edible Jersey’s Winter 2014...
All throughout the state of New Jersey, all through out the country actually, there are chapters of the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry still in existence. The Grange still exists...
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