I love the smell of fir trees. My family doesn’t really bother with a Christmas tree anymore, which I’m totally fine with. But I always loved the way a Christmas tree could fill a whole room with its wonderful, natural, fresh green smell.
I’m not going to wade into the debate over the most environmentally friendly [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Dupont Circle farmer’s market’
Smells Like A Green Christmas
Posted in sustainability, tagged Christmas, Dupont Circle farmer's market, sustainability on December 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
More Than Tomatoes: Neat Stuff at the Market
Posted in Food, tagged farmers' market, ginger, Dupont Circle farmer's market, beans, asian pears, proscuitto, bird beans on September 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
These days I’m buying a lot of my veggies at the cheap farm stand, but the Dupont Circle Farmers Market is still my source for fun and interesting veggies, meats, dairy, and so on. There have been some neat new items at the market recently that remind me how fun it is to have access [...]
Sunday Photos: A Rainbow of Peppers
Posted in Food, tagged Dupont Circle farmer's market, peppers, photos on August 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Vendors at the Dupont Circle farmers market often make dazzling displays of their produce. Deep red cherries carpeting an entire table, baskets overflowing with green spinach, and gleaming piles of purple eggplants are common sights. But faced with the sheer diversity of peppers present in this region in August, a mono-color display seems to be [...]
Local Flour Comes to DC
Posted in Food, tagged Dupont Circle farmer's market, farmers' market, flour, local food, wheat on August 1, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I was excited to get the following news in the weekly email from Freshfarm Markets:
New Farmer at Market: This Sunday, August 2, Moutoux Orchard is at our Dupont market with locally grown and freshly milled flours grown in Purcellville, VA. Robb Moutoux is growing wheat, spelt, rye and oats on his family’s farm. The organically grown flours [...]
Sunday Photos: Purple, Blue, and Black
Posted in Food, tagged black raspberries, blueberries, cabbage, Dupont Circle farmer's market, eggplants, farmers' market, peppers, photos on July 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Most fruits and vegetables occupy the red-orange-yellow-green part of the rainbow. Blues and purples are less common, which in my mind makes them all the more special and beautiful. Click on the photos below for extreme close-ups!
Gradually Greener Fro-Yo Review: SweetFlow Mobile
Posted in Food, sustainability, tagged cucpcakes, DC, Dupont Circle farmer's market, frozen yogurt, sweetgreen on July 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Because DC is tragically unhip, we adopt food trends about five years later than all the cool-kid cities. Cupcakes were huge in New York, like, 10 years ago, and are now kind of passé. Here? Cupcakes are relatively new and still very popular, as evidenced by last year’s Cupcake Wars.
So too with frozen yogurt. In [...]
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