22 Aug
Starting next week, Harvest Home will have raffle tickets available for sale. We want to be as inclusive as possible. And so, we have curated wonderful gifts for lucky winner. Raffle books are just $20 dollars. Individuals would receive a book of five raffle opportunities. Raffles will be available at our markets and other distribution vehicles soon.
20 Aug
“The twenty-somethings who make up Tumbling Bones play a mix of old-time country and old-fashioned blues that belies their relative youth. But their folk music is no museum piece. It is living, breathing music infused with
a little of the contemporary rock ‘n’ roll the band members were reared on and reworked into their original arrangements and compositions.
The last half decade has taken them from street-performing on European street corners to venues across the continental United States to an acclaimed performance on NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. The band’s debut EP Risk Not Your Soul (2011) reached the Top Ten on the Roots Music Report‘s folk radio chart. Since the release of their second record Schemes in May of this year Tumbling Bones has been on the road non-stop including dates throughout the midwest, east coast, and an outstanding three week tour of Ireland.”
Listen to more Tumbling Bones
7 Aug
Since the turn of the 20st century, most people stopped cultivating fruits and vegetables in their own backyard and opted for the easy option of purchasing their vegetables at the supermarket that are sometimes out of season, and not at all as tasty. I mean, if you can believe it, there was a time when tomatoes weren’t available all year round!
I grew up with the impression that everything you eat comes from the farm, but not just any farm, in particular it was my grandfather’s vegetable patch. Ever since I was little I remember going with him to his field that was always overflowing with gorgeous fresh cucumbers, watermelons, beans, peppers, anything you could imagine it would be there, depending on the season of course.
When we would wake up in the mornings my grandfather would already be back from tending to his vegetables and his goats and sheep. This would mean fresh goats milk for breakfast with our cereal, and of course my grandma would cook up a nutritious meal for lunch with all the vegetables he would bring back.
I look back on my childhood, and particularly this influence of fresh fruit and vegetables being readily available, with a great fondness and am very fortunate to have had the exposure that I did to such a lifestyle so young as I can see how it has influenced my own food choices that I make daily now, so many years later.
Making sure fresh produce being present in the life of a young child during their developing years is one of the greatest gifts that one can give their child, and it is one that will always be increasing in value as the years pass.
1 Aug
As of this morning, Harvest Home Farmer’s Market has received confirmation that the following restaurants are on board for its food tasting benefit this September:
Jin Ramen
Melba’s
LeMonde
Dinosaur Bar-b-que
Creole
Red Rooster
Levain Bakery
5 and Diamond
And congratulations to Melba for her appearance on the View.
Photo credit: Melba’s Restaurant
Savor the Season Uptown! 