Tasting Friday, 5/05, 5:00 -6:30pm Strawberries Imagine yourself wandering through a field of knee high bushes, basket in hand, searching for the small glimmer of red in the wide expanse of green leaves. Ah ha! A strawberry! You pick it and place it in the basket with the other beautifully bright strawberries. The sun is […]
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Mayfair Farm: On Trust & Non-GMO Verification
One of my favorite farm tours to date has been at Mayfair Farm in Harrisville, NH. Co-owners Craig Thompson and Sarah Heffron are incredibly informative and can explain their sustainable production methods at length, even for a layperson like me (I bet you were expecting me to talk about the samples of their amazing baked […]
Cave to Co-op: Hi-Land Chèvre, Franklin, VT
Our Cave to Co-op cheese for May 2017 is Hi-Land Chèvre from Hi-Land Farm, Franklin, VT Hi-Land Farm was founded 30 plus years ago in Cornish, NH, by Jean and Gerry Hurlburt. The Hurlburts bred, showed and sold goats and in 1997 decided to start making chèvre. Today, grandaughter Heleena and her husband Tanner Abbott have taken […]
Staff Picks! May 2017
May 2017 Housemade Garlic Rosemary Roasted Chickens So delicious and so easy—all the roasting is done right here so you can have a night off from making dinner. The container is microwavable for reheating at home. But it’s also great cold—I love adding it to a salad. Cage-free Freebird chickens have no antibiotics, just all […]
Delightfully Healthy! Shake, salsa & roll!
Tasting Friday, 4/21, 5:00 -6:30pm Pineapples As the temperature creeps up and the days grow longer, you may be finding yourself hosting or enjoying outdoor dinner parties and barbeques! This wonderful time of year may be accompanied with the stress of deciding what appetizer to bring. Well look no further, we have an idea for […]
Co-op Board Update: April 2107
As a member of the Monadnock Food Co-op Board, I have the opportunity to meet many of our peer cooperators from around the Northeast while attending regional food co-op gatherings. I enjoy sharing the success of our co-op and have learned much about co-ops and the cooperative movement we are part of from others in […]
Delightfully Healthy! A Versatile Green & An Unusual Fruit Pairing
Tasting Friday, 4/07, 5:00 -6:30pm Spinach—A Nutritional Powerhouse Spinach is one of the most versatile greens around. You can mix it in a soup, replace boring lettuce in a sandwich, cook it down and put it in pasta, have it with fish, chicken, beef, pork, or just plain raw mixed in a salad. It goes […]
Cave to Co-op: INVIERNO from Vermont Shepherd in Westminster, VT
Our Cave to Co-op cheese for April 2017 is INVIERNO from Vermont Shepherd, Westminster, VT. Vermont Shepherd cheeses are the oldest and most well known of the country’s sheep and mixed milk cheeses. David and Yesenia and their family pasture and milk the sheep, make and age the cheese on a 250 acre farm in Westminster […]
Our Co-op Backs Low Carbon USA
At our co-op, we’re aware that climate change, if left unchecked, will have major effects on our community, the availability, quality and cost of the products we sell, and the economy at large. That’s why we’re joining more than 1,000 companies and investors across the United States to encourage the U.S. government to keep intact […]
Delightfully Healthy! Tropical Fruits & Rainbow Salads!
Tasting Friday, 3/24, 5:00 -6:30pm Fruit Spring Roll with Honey Lime Dip Among the woes of winter, we wanted to present you with a tease of warmer days! One bite of our fresh fruit spring roll and you might as well be on a beach basking in the sun. This mango, pineapple, papaya combo will […]
