Tag Archives: Real Time Farms

Shine a Light on Our Food System. Take Pics. Post. Win.

It’s FOOD DAY 2012! Shed light on our food system! Drumroll please……here is a heat map of farmers, food artisans, and food distributors on Real Time Farms (thanks to you!). As you know Real Time Farms is powered by the people. … Continue reading

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The Custom Dairy Fairy Works Magic on Traditional Ice Cream Sandwiches

This post is from one of the interns in the Real Time Farms Food Warrior Fall Internship Program. These interns are in Asheville, Austin, Nashville, Portland and San Francisco, collecting data, pictures, and video on the growing practices of our nation’s farms, gathering … Continue reading

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Have You Tried: Making Sushi?

I recently took a raw food “cooking” class (or raw food construction class) at Raw Gourmets International in Chicago. We spent the whole day pureeing, chopping, and dicing various vegetables and nuts to make ourselves lunch and dinner. In addition … Continue reading

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Missionary Chocolates: Truffles Changing Medicine

This post is from one of the interns in the Real Time Farms Food Warrior Fall Internship Program. These interns are in Asheville, Austin, Nashville, Portland and San Francisco, collecting data, pictures, and video on the growing practices of our nation’s farms, gathering … Continue reading

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Some Like It Hot – Peppers That Is!

This post is from one of the 16 interns in the Real Time Farms Food Warrior Summer Internship Program (our Fall 2011 Food Warriors have started and will be blogging  soon!). These interns collect data, pictures, and video on the growing practices of … Continue reading

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A visit to the Amish collective Path Valley Farms

Last week I visited three of the 20 Amish farms that comprise the Path Valley Farms collective, serving nearly 60 DC restaurants. In this enchanting place food is grown by those who ride in buggies to serve the needs of … Continue reading

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You can change what students eat! Celebrate the first National Farm to School Month!

(In the interests of being a good lesson planner, I am going to outline the format of this story so you know what to expect. First I am going to share my personal experiences teaching in a school, then I … Continue reading

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Check out our new “grow the guide” and “add an eatery” pages!

We want to know where our food comes from. The food system, as you well know, is complex. So we want our part of it to be as simple and accessible as possible. Real Time Farms does two things simultaneously. #1) … Continue reading

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Kale Chips are Sublime

Last season, I was tired of kale. Tired of sautéing leaves, tired of putting green stalks in soup, tired of the dense chewiness, tired of hearing how good it is for me (high in flavonoids, blah blah). So, come late … Continue reading

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Drake Family Farms: Where Every Goat Has a Name

This post is from one of the 16 interns in the Real Time Farms Food Warrior Summer Internship Program (our Fall 2011 Food Warriors have started and will be blogging  soon!). These interns collect data, pictures, and video on the growing practices of … Continue reading

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