You know that feeling when you pick your 20th zucchini and you just want to throw it? Grilled, shaved, chopped; there are just so many things you can do with the bountiful zucchini plant before your mind starts to wander.  I've found a solution!  Find out what other, more creative, people are doing with their harvest. 

Western Pennsylvania is a great place to be for the local food comeback.  Local food isn't, after all, something new.  People have been eating local food since the dawn of agriculture. 

 Now we can use the internet to blog about our local harvest.   Many of the local food blogs in the Western Pennsylvania region go into detail about how the authors have whipped up their delicacies.  I love visiting these sites for inspiration.  Plus, it's a great way to spend some time on the 'net.  Truly what Tim Burners-Lee had in mind!

This article was contributed by Maggie Henry

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Did you know that your tax dollars are being used to build factory farms? If you care about supporting family farmers, join me in signing a petition to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack urging him to stop using our money to prop up factory farms. Click here to sign now:

Here's the basic problem: A current USDA program is funneling taxpayer money to fund new and bigger factory farm operations. This lending is leading to the gross overproduction of hogs and poultry.

We now have a growing list of area farmers markets on our site.  Check out the Local Food Events page to view by date or search by area. 

These events were found by searching on the internet and a good number were taken from the excellend list put together by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.  They also have a handy interactive map to visualize the farmers markets closest to you: View Interactive Map. 

You can submit your own events on our website after you become a registered member.  Registration is free.

Last week I went shopping for some chicken. Everything I saw was too expensive, "vegetarian" or not the kind of chicken I’d like to eat.

I have had a local chicken from Sandra Brown of So’ Journey Farm in my freezer since last fall. I decided it was time to indulge and the chicken thawed in the fridge for a few days.