Category: Fruits, Nuts & Seeds

TIP OF THE DAY: Find A CSA & A CSF

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National Farmers Day is October 12th, and National CSA Day, a floating holiday, is the last Friday in February. CSAs deserve as much attention as they can get, so today’s tip is help yourself, help a small family farmer: Head to the CSA DAY website and find a CSA near you. You can also check…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Toss Some Dried Cherries On Everything

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We don’t think that cherry recipes on Presidents Day or Washington’s Birthday (February 22nd) are clichéd. We think they’re a great opportunity to enjoy dried cherries. The question isn’t what you can do with dried cherries; but rather, what you can’t. They’re so versatile! Some of our favorite uses for dried cherries: Breakfast: On cereal…
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Black Currant Juice Uses & Why You Should Drink It

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Black currants have twice the antioxidants of blueberries, hitherto the uber-antioxidant fruit. The small, purple-black berries that grow in clusters on the Ribes nigrum bush have four times the vitamin C of oranges and significant amounts of calcium, magnesium, manganese, potassium, and riboflavin. Should you be drinking currant juice? Of course, especially when it tastes…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Know Your Dates

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The first man-made candy was a taffy-like sweet made by cave men, who dried honey into chewy pieces. But nature’s first ready-to-eat candy was the date. Figs may have been the first cultivated food (more about that below), but dates, which followed them, became the go-to candy. Wild dates are not edible, but early farmers…
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