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Every farmers’ market is different. The vendors and clientele vary, of course, but the setting–the unique backdrop to each event–also colors how it feels to be there, as well as the crowd that attends.

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After a combined 20 years working in other people’s restaurants, Dylan and Heidi Stockman decided they’d had enough. “We were used to scraping by working for other people,” Heidi recalls, “We figured we might as well scrape by working for ourselves.” As avid farmers’ market shoppers, they knew they wanted to sell local, sustainable food, [...]

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Oregon’s Statesman Journal reported earlier this month about a guy who abandoned a year-long effort to eat only local food. After 8 months of sticking to the diet, he bought a banana.
Justin Rothboeck told the paper that while sticking to the regimen, he’d felt he was violating the very ideals that locavores espouse, spewing carbon [...]

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(2007 floods in Centralia/Chehalis, photo courtesy of Nate Ritter)
There was widespread flooding throughout the Pacific Northwest last week, as dramatic rainstorms followed on the heels of the record snowfalls that closed out 2008. This is the third consecutive winter to bring major floods to the valleys holding much of the region’s agricultural land.
Fortunately, many farmers [...]

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Devra Gartenstein is the owner of Seattle’s Patty Pan Grill and the author of two cookbooks, Local Bounty: Vegan Seasonal Produce and The Accidental Vegan.  She also blogs at The Quirky Gourmet.
Bill Marler, the most prominent food safety attorney in the country, has published a list of what he predicts will be the biggest food [...]

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When the economy started looking really grim a month or so ago, the farmers’ markets also took a hit. The first week was particularly bad; my own sales were down quite a bit, and nearly every farmer I spoke to was in the same boat. Over the intervening weeks things have leveled off some, I [...]

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There’s been a lot of talk about food waste in the media lately. Speaking to that issue from inside the food industry, today we have another one from Devra Gartenstein, aka the Quirky Gourmet, owner of Seattle’s Patty Pan Grill and author of The Accidental Vegan and the soon-to-be-released Local Bounty.
Anyone who has worked in [...]

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Here’s another post from Devra Gartenstein of Seattle, who takes time out from a busy schedule writing cookbooks like her upcoming Local Bounty (she also wrote The Accidental Vegan), blogging at the Quirky Gourmet and running her Patty Pan Grill (phew!) to volunteer for Eat Well. Here, she touches on some of the challenges [...]

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Although the official Eat Well team is a small one, there are dozens of people who help support the program, including consultants, interns and volunteers. One such volunteer is Devra Gartenstein, owner of the Patty Pan Grill in Seattle, and author of The Accidental Vegan and upcoming cookbook Local Bounty. Devra has been [...]

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