I ran out to Clear Brook Farm at lunch today in search of plum tomatoes for the gazpacho I’m planning to make for dinner tonight. I thought for sure Clear Brook had opened its produce stand last weekend, while my summer cold rendered me bed-ridden. The farm stand usually opens at the beginning of June. I was pleasantly surprised to see a sign that said the produce stand would open this Friday and that I hadn’t missed the opening day (it’s something I look forward to every year), but alas, I didn’t get my tomatoes.
Anyone have a recipe for gazpacho that calls for canned tomatoes? I was planning to follow the gazpacho recipe in The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook. That cookbook has not once failed me.
Categories: Produce · Recipes
Tagged: Clear Brook Farm, gazpacho
Bonnie and Oliver Levis of Manchester, Vermont’s Teleion Holon Farm are offering a workshop on extending the growing season in Vermont on Sunday, June 22 from 3 to 5 PM, according to an article in The Bennington Banner. The Levis’s will demonstrate how to grow certain vegetables through the winter by covering plants with plastic on wire frames. They also plan to explain how to grow melons in Vermont.
The workshop costs just $3 and is the last of three workshops on farming. The first two, which were about organic farming practices and raising pigs, took place last weekend. (Apologies for not getting this information to you sooner.)
If you’re interested in attending the workshop at Teleion Holon, call Mary Barrosse Schwartz at 802-362-7235 to reserve a space. I’d like to say I’ll see you there, but I will be entertaining visitors that weekend.
Thanks to Erin McEnaney who told me about the article in The Banner.
Update 6/12: A complete list of the workshops that are available throughout the summer is located on the website for the Southwestern Vermont Eat Local Challenge.
Categories: Farming
Tagged: Bennington Banner, Bonnie Levis, Erin McEnaney, Farming, Oliver Levis, Teleion Holon, Vermont
