Try something new!

There are a bunch of new seed varieties for vegetables so if you are looking to start your own vegetable garden why not try some of these...


1-Pepper Orange Blaze This variety proved itself a winner in AAS Trialing Grounds across North America due to early maturity, sweet flavor and disease resistance. Orange Blaze produces 3 to 4-inch long fruits about 1.5 inches wide with 2-3 lobes.


2- Melon Atlantis: Atlantis is an impressive Eastern shipper melon with its strong vines, excellent interior quality, consistent high sugars and a firm rind. The 6-8 lb. fruit have medium netting, slight sutures, and a deep orange flesh color


3- Lettuce Multiblond: This unique lettuce variety offers you the opportunity to harvest heads of leaf lettuce, with all the same leaf size, and when the leaf size reaches the desired size for your needs. This Multileaf lettuce variety can be grown from spring through fall and their compact plants will handle higher density plantings. Light green leaf color with heavily serrated leaf edges

Learn Sustainable Home Cooking!

Reasons Why You Should Learn Sustainable Home Cooking!

There are many reasons why you should start cooking with sustainable, local foods- here are just a few…

1-      It’s healthier & safer- When you cook yourself you know what is going into your meal and body. You do not have to worry about what a restaurant or mass producer put into your meat or meal. Locally grown food is fresher which means it is more nutritious. Once you get the product in your kitchen you are in complete control in what goes into the rest of your meal and how you prepare it. You can roast vegetables to preserve vitamins and keep the peel on fruits to add even more vitamin. You can avoid adding preservations, artificial flavoring, and texturizers.  Also you’re able to regulate how much salt, pepper, and sugar go into you cooking. YOU ARE IN CONTROL!

2-      Tastes the way you want- Doing your own cooking allows you to customize the flavor to suit your family, friends and own taste preference. You can add more spice to your cookies, add less butter to your potatoes etc. It is a nice perk to make your food taste the way you want rather than going to a restaurant and having it the way the cook prepares it.  You are able to experiment as much or as little as you would like. Once you start cooking with fresh local food you will realize that your meals taste better and satisfy your taste buds more than processed foods.

3-      Gets your children & friend involved- Start by bringing your son/daughter, grandkid, nephew/niece to the local farmers market to help pick out some products they want to eat and cook with. Children love to help cook in the kitchen so get them in there with you…start off with a new recipe, clean the produce and mix the ingredients.  Having them take part in the choosing, cooking and eating of local food will teach them that this is a practice they should take part in on a daily basis. This is also a great way to get friends involved- have a local food cooking party. All choose a local product and find a recipe to use the product in. The all get together and share your products and new recipes with! It’s a great way to learn new recipes and local products.

MUSHROOMS! MUSHROOMS!

Nothing is more "local" than growing your own products...if you are a fan of mushrooms you should check this out. For a class project Morrisville State College students started growing their own mushroom in logs...its easy & a great way to get involved in your own way. You just need fresh wood logs, mushroom spawn, hot candle wax and a place to store the logs. 

 This is the mushroom spawn--you put this into the holes you drill into th log

 Drill holes into each log

use the hot wax to cover the wholes that have spawn inside of them

 This is your finished project-- now stack them up outside!