Spend an evening at Poplar Ridge Farm! We host elegant Farm to Table Dinners each year with area chefs and guest speakers. We will meet, greet, eat, and learn. The dinner events are held from 5:30 pm - 9:30 pm, for up to 60 attendees in our farm pavilion and outdoor dining area. Each dinner will feature a wonderful dining experience with seasonal vegetables from the farm!…

We are looking for a reliable, outgoing person to represent our Dogwood Hill pickles and salsas in upscale Charlotte food retailers. Position is part-time on Friday eve, Saturday afternoon or Sunday afternoon, three hours per session. We make our products ourselves near Greensboro. Our salsas are all low sodium with no added sugar. All products, pickles and salsas are preservative, gluten and GMO free. We use North Carolina grown produce. We've tried Craigslist with lots of unqualified…

"Sipping My Garden" by Dr. Marcia E. Herman-Giddens of Pittsboro, NC is now available through Seed Pod Press Seed Pod Press.  This charming, beautifully illustrated book will inspire and teach its readers how to "go local" with wonderful homemade herbal tea blends.  Makes a great gift, too!   

High Country Grass-fed is a co-operative of farmers who raise their meat animals sustainably on pastures. We never use antibiotics, hormones or medicated feeds. Ruminant animals-cattle, sheep and goats-are completely raised and finished on grass. Pigs and poultry are raised on pasture and whole grains, whey, milk and vegetables.

Although we started out in the North Carolina mountains, our network of family farms now ranges from the piedmont area, through the foothills to the…

Grilled Portobello Mushrooms With Red Wine Reduction

by Nicholas Domingo

Poplar Ridge Farm…

One of the things I love about farmer's markets is that produce is "naked", that is, not wrapped within an inch of it's life in plastic, or sitting in a plastic box. I use homemade string produce bags to put the produce in. They are lightweight so as not to add to the weight of the produce and see-though to help identify the item during the check out process.

I am now buying bread at a local bakery - taking a cotton dishtowel with me to wrap the bread in instead of plastic. I…