Growers and Grocers

Seeing how it’s February already, I’d better get cracking on the daily recommendations that author Jodi Helmer puts forth in The Green Year: 365 Small Things You Can Do to Make a Big Difference for easy green living. The key to the whole enterprise is small steps. A quick glance through the book, which showed […]

I’m a big fan of seasonally appropriate foods and flavors, so the other day when we were near one of our favorite ice cream places, we stopped because I wanted to have its homemade pumpkin ice cream. No dice. I was told by the owner, “It’s still September; we’ll probably have it later next week.” […]

We recently got the opportunity to try a hybrid red sweet corn that a colleague of ours, John Wilson, grew for the first time this summer on Old Stonehouse Farm, which he and his wife Sarah’s family operate. Although I live in Pennsylvania now, which admittedly has its own fine summertime produce offerings, I am […]

We are inundated these days with green living advice, but often it’s doled out in sanctimonious or judgmental tones, which can leave us feeling unempowered and guilty. Sometimes the advice feels absolute, uncompromising: if you aren’t 100 percent green — from the food you buy, the car you drive, and the solar panels on your […]

You remember junk mail, right? It’s that stuff that comes in the mail that you don’t want—the credit card offers, the catalogs that companies send you based on similar purchases and buying your name off a list, and other assorted postal flotsam and jetsam. Sometimes we’re so inundated by spam and more careful about our […]

We recently returned from a trip to Maine with new foodstuffs, thanks to a stop at the Stonewall Kitchen headquarters in York, which is a cute town right on the water with at least three candy stores. If you’re a fan of condiments — dips, dressings, jellies, jams, sauces, salsas, marinades and mustards — then […]

Anyone who has watched Al Gore’s documentary film An Inconvenient Truth knows that it can seem incredibly disempowering to witness the massive destruction that global warming is inflicting upon the Earth. And the whole problem seems overwhelming when confronted with said inconvenient truths, but Mr. Gore gave us some actionable advice at the end of the […]

As I pine for spring, it’s only fitting that my first post for Growers and Grocers is about a series of salsas available from the award-winning supermarket Wegmans. I love the store, but my only complaint about Wegmans is that because the company regularly introduces its own branded products, this process limits shelf space and […]