Farm to Table Buy Local Blog

Stuff Your Stockings Locally!

Show your LOCAL LOVE this holiday by pledging to stuff your stockings with LOCAL items. Celebrate the Region & the Season. Need ideas? Let us make gift-giving a joyful experience. The Marketplace at Emerald Valley is fully stocked with products from these local businesses: Blue Ox Sawmill (Washington) –live-edge Charcuterie Boards in various sizes Cherry…

Clarion River Organics: home delivered local pastured meat

9/20 Farm Tour with Serenity Hill Farm

From our friends at Serenity Hill Farm: Tour our working farm where you can see tilapia, microgreen, and lettuce production facilities. Learn how we produce food year round. Event Details: 330 Mill Dam RoadCheswick, PA Friday September 20th,2019 11 AM-1:30 PM2 PM – 4:30 PM Email: info@marketonmiddle.com Or call 412-213-0724 to purchase tickets

Slow Food Pittsburgh’s Laptop Butchershop

Slow Food Pittsburgh‘s Laptop Butchershop celebrates fourteen years of connecting Pittsburgh with organic and/or carefully-raised local meats and poultry. Animals are pastured, meaning they are raised outdoors on grass, the way nature intended. Some animals are fed grains, also carefully raised. The meat is exceptionally delicious and heart-healthy, rich in correctly balanced CLA’s/nutrients. These products…

South Main Street Farmer’s Market – Winter Edition

The first South Main Street Farmer’s Market – Winter Edition was a huge success. So we have scheduled two more Winter Markets! Saturday, March 16th11:00 am – 3:00 pm Saturday, April 13th 11:00 am – 3:00 pm This is an indoor market hosted by The Marketplace at Emerald Valley 145 S. Main Street in Washington….

News from NWPA Growers

From our friends at the NWPA Growers: We are gearing up for our next CSA/Farm Share season that begins on June 6. There is still time to sign up if you haven’t yet. We just added two new pickup locations. We have had requests from people in Oil City to establish a pickup there, and…

412 Food Rescue Ugly CSA 2018

UglyCSA 2018 is HERE! 412 Food Rescue’s UglyCSA program offers 12 weeks of “ugly” produce (AKA fruits and veggies with character!) from Penn’s Corner Farm Alliance and other producers, along with specialty items from your favorite Pittsburgh businesses! All for just $20/week! The 2018 UglyCSA season runs every Wednesday from July 11 – September 26,…

Urban Farms in Pittsburgh

Pittsburghers want to fight food deserts with urban farms, mobile markets and community But changes to federal policy could threaten the good being done locally. by SARAH ANNE HUGHES at theincline.com Raqueeb Bey’s father grew tomatoes, greens and strawberries in their Pittsburgh backyard, populated by a dozen fig trees, when she was growing up. “I…

A Very Local Thanksgiving

Urgent! End of The Family Cow?

As part of our mission to connect consumers to local food producers to ensure food security and access to healthy food throughout our region, we need to stand together when it is in jeopardy.  Our friends at The Family Cow need our help! From our friends at the Family Cow: Please help! WE NEED YOU!…