We are so excited to present our second annual Farm to Table Tapas dinner.  The dinner will be at the gorgeous Bucks County Audubon Society at Honey Hollow in New Hope on September 6th!  Renowned chef Michael Kanter is cooking up some wonderful locally sourced "small plate" foods.   

Lori Rosolowsky and Jazz With Friends have cooked up some wonderful entertainment of their own for us, with some new music and fun in store.  

Slow-Cooking Meadow Brook Farms Roast

Ingredients:

• One All Natural Meadow Brook Farms Roast
• One Package 8 – 16 oz of washed mushrooms – sliced 
• One medium onion, sliced or chopped
• One plus to your liking garlic cloves, crushed
• 1 cup of red wine
• 1/4 – 1/2 cup of water
• Salt 
• Pepper
• 1 -2 beef bouillon cubes

Read the full recipe here!
Interested? Read below for information on this great local beef supplier!

Located in Upper Bucks County, Meadow Brook Farms supplies the region with high-quality beef while on a mission to, "balance modern agriculture with Mother Nature"

The land that is now Meadow Brook Farms has been a working family farm since William Penn received his charter in 1681 for the region that would become Pennsylvania.

The cattle are free-range, vegetarian-fed and grass-finished. Raised without antibiotics or added hormones their beef is also Pennsylvania Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) Certified. They produce an array of ground beef, steaks, and specialty items following these principles.  Find Meadow Brook Farms at the Doylestown Food Co-op!

by Kira Kraiman

Are you the daily shopper at the co-op? The weekly or the bi-weekly? Or even the monthly shopper?  



There are many ways to shop at the Co-op, all of which take advantage of the store's convenience as well as the array of locally sourced foods and products.  These four ways of shopping are all great for meeting your shopping needs and keeping the Co-op strong.  Which one fits you best?  Read more and Find out here!

Open House- Wine, Cheese, and Live Music

Come in Friday September 5th from 5-7 and sample extraordinary cheese crafted by a group of Amish families in Central PA. It is made the old fashioned way in small quantities, delivering exceptional flavor. A taste sensation!

Acoustic guitarist and songwriter Ben McLaughlin will be performing his originals during the Open House.
Read more here!

Fearless Food Preservation

Does preserving food frighten you? We'll take the mystery out of it and make it fun and fearless- Saturday September 13th.  

Each participant will leave with a pint jar of either tomato sauce or fermenting vegetables and a confidence to put food up at home!  Read more here

Food for Thought Book Club
"Prodigal Summer" by Barbara Kingsolver

On Tuesday September 9th the Book Club will meet at the Doylestown Bookshop to discuss this amazing book!  Her book is a quick read, so there is plenty of time to read it for the 9th!

Interested? Read more here

 "Diet for a Hot Planet"
Review by Cathy Morano

Can you change the world by what you eat?

Seven Principles of a Climate-Friendly Diet proposed in the book:

• (1) eat real food(i.e.not processed)
• (2) focus on plants
• (3) go organic
• (4) go local
• (5) stop wasting food
• (6) reduce packaging
• (7) “do it yourself" grow and prepare your own food.

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