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Entries Tagged as 'farmer’s markets'

Dark Days: Poor Man’s Chicken Stew

January 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I find myself constructing these winter meals in my head days in advance. Where will the calories come from? I ask myself. What can I do that doesn’t repeat what I did last week? Which of my two farmer’s market options to employ? Obviously, I have too much time on my hands. But soon after […]

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Arlington Farmers Market

December 17th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized

The farmers market next to the county courthouse in Arlington, just over the Potomac River from the District of Columbia, is one of the area’s oldest. But I had never been before this weekend. The market does not have a cozy feel at all–at least not this time of year. It’s set up in a […]

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To Market, To Market

December 3rd, 2007 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized

Nearly all of the farmers markets in our area here in the District of Columbia have closed for the season. As I see it, this presents a real challenge to those locavores among us who’ve signed up for making Dark Days meals. Unless you have found a way to grow your own food through the […]

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