Locavores at Horn Farm, green cleaning in Shrewsbury
Colin Kirkpatrick, 12, of Springesttsbury Township, hammers a stake into the ground in his family's community garden plot at Horn Farm in 2010. (File photo) If someone could invent time travel between...
View ArticleContainer Garden Chronicles: Why I garden
I planted two trays of seeds in mid-March. I also have a black thumb. And now, those seeds are dead. Some days I would wake up, or come home from work, and find a tiny baby plant peeking through....
View ArticleChomp, sniff and stomp at farm stand’s kids’ program
I first learned about Horn Farm Center when I was working on a story about CSAs in York County earlier this year. The center houses four incubator farmers who lease farmland on the Hellam Township...
View ArticleEnjoy products of your garden this weekend
For those of us who’ve toiled over the garden all summer, produce is now rolling in abundantly. When I stopped at a Central Market stand last week and asked what was local, there were more options than...
View ArticleObstacles that small farms face
Tuesday evening, I joined York College students, faculty and York County community members for a screening of “Farmageddon.” The documentary follows some of the struggles small-time farmers have had in...
View ArticleYork College to host talk on homesteading, local food
Philip Ackerman-Leist has been busy. As a professor and the director of the Farm and Food Project at Green Mountain College in Vermont, he’s been at the center of a much-protested decision to slaughter...
View ArticleYork County Buy Fresh Buy Local plans second annual food guide
(Submitted photo) Are you a local food provider in York County? From farmers and grocers to breweries and CSAs, the York County Buy Fresh Buy Local chapter is seeking local businesses for its second...
View ArticleReciplease! Get your fill of local asparagus while it’s peaking
Everywhere I look, there’s asparagus. Even out my own back window, in the lower garden, where we planted it last summer. That asparagus needs a few cycles before it can be picked, but that doesn’t mean...
View ArticleReciplease! How to make sweet peas sweeter
One of my first memories of “fresh” food was popping sweet peas like candy while hanging out with my grandparents in their garden. I couldn’t have been more than four or five years old, and the...
View ArticleReciplease! Shopping roadside, cukes and a Greek twist on a picnic classic
Some people drive around on weekends looking for flea markets or yard sales, or a not-so-crowded swimming spot. We drive around looking for dinner. In people’s yards. It’s not as creepy as it sounds. I...
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