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Alice Ensley

Buying Fresh & Local

This will be brief....just a reference for you. Check out this link....http://www.buylocalshenvalley.org/SV_BFBL_Directory_06162008.pdf

Great resource of information for you.

Enjoy!!!

Posted by Alice Ensley on July 2, 2008 at 11:14pm

Alice Ensley

Virginia's Production of Tomatoes

Virginia ranked 4th in nation for fresh-market production

Two men walk into a Subway restaurant expecting tomatoes but come up empty.

That could be the start of a joke, but you'd be disappointed with the current punch line — the men say OK, and agree to go home and slice their own tomatoes.

It happened at the Subway on Wal-Mart Drive in Winchester, and shows the adjustments that grocery stores, restaurants and consumers have had to make in the Northern Shenandoah Valley after a nationwide sal… Continue

Posted by Alice Ensley on June 12, 2008 at 6:43am

Alice Ensley

Local community farming

Shareholders: Local farmer sees success in group growing

By Jessica Coleman -- Daily Staff Writer


FRONT ROYAL — Matt Burch shares his farm with 60 people.

Lei-Kei Farm, named after his two oldest daughters, Leilani and Keilena, is an example of community supported agriculture in the valley. Burch sells shares of his farm, and these shareholders reap the benefits of his harvest weekly.

He delivers boxes of in-season fresh organic fruits and vegetables to them with directions about how to sto… Continue

Posted by Alice Ensley on June 12, 2008 at 6:34am

 
 

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