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Julie Wormser

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Julie Wormser lives in North Cambridge with her husband Fred and their daughter Lucy. She studied plant ecology and forestry in college, but went to work for non-profit conservation organizations rather than pursuing agriculture or field biology. She is currently Executive Director of The Boston Harbor Association.

In order to still satisfy her love of plants and the outdoors, she raises fruits, vegetables and bantam chickens on an urban “microfarm” at their home. Joining Farmers-to-You has allowed their family to cook and eat minimally-processed, locally-produced food year-round while decreasing their overall food bills. They love combining the rich urban culture of North Cambridge with the seasonality, vitality and humanity of purchasing people-scaled food from farmers partnering with FTY.

Less Shopping, More Chopping

I have to say that our food experience has substantially changed since we moved from conventional supermarket fare to eating seasonally from our garden and from FTY.  The biggest differences? 1.  We spend far less time wandering the aisles of supermarkets, and when we do do so, it’s a culture shock. 2.  I’ve lost my [...]

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Apple pie? How about a cobbler, crisp, slump, grunt or Brown Betty?

Our family is swimming in apples. We just went apple picking yesterday on a spectacular fall day, joining hundreds of others at Shelburne Farms  in Stow to pick sweet-tart Cortlands and Macintoshes and sample their cider donuts and caramel apples.  Add to those the Honeycrisps we bought from FTY last week and apples are rolling [...]

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Michael Pollan’s a better writer, but Mark Bittman is a better cook.

I have been a professional environmentalist my entire adult life.  If I had had the capital in my 20′s, I would have become a commercial vegetable grower.  And yet, until I read Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemna, I didn’t make the switch away from industrially-produced food.  It’s not that I didn’t know that eggs were being [...]

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Celebrating the Harvest

A few weeks ago our family got together with other families with Chinese-American members to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival.  Similar to our Thanksgiving, it is a time for families and friends to get together to celebrate the harvest and each other.  We gathered on September 12th at dusk to catch the first glimpse of [...]

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Pan Asian Slaw

Pan-Asian Slaw   Print Ingredients Shred six cups of any of the following (a Cuisinart helps here): Carrots Red cabbage Green cabbage Radishes or raw beets if feeling especially adventuresome ⅔ cup minced shallots 2 T sunflower oil Other Ingredients: ½ t salt 2 t sugar 3 T rice vinegar or white vinegar Instructions Mix [...]

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