NW Farms & Food

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This authentic pork sausage recipe from the Piedmont region of Italy uses cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg and cloves to impart a pleasing and unique flavor. Serve as a simple meat entree for meals, or use this sausage as a filling ingredient for ravioli.

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Infused with the flavors of rosemary and virgin olive oil, these delicious oven-baked beans are a hearty, warming meal for a cold winter’s day.

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This recipe comes from Roslyn McNicoll of Rabbit Fields Farm, where kale grows year-round. Try kale chips as appetizers or for an afternoon snack. These easy-to-prepare chips are a fun way to munch on nutrition-packed winter greens.

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When you think about local foods, tropical ginger may not be the first thing that comes to mind. Yet, on a recent October Saturday at the Bellingham Farmers Market, Sküter and Amy Fontaine of Terra Verde Garden were offering just that.
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This is a modern love story: a chance meeting on Facebook, a couple on two different continents, a passion for fine food, and finally, Magdalena’s, a stylish Old World café in Fairhaven Washington.

For petite, blond Magdalena, the cafe’s namesake, it all began in 2008 with an email message.
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When the winter comes and the weather turns cold, we remember the fragrances of summer in lotions, soaps, and essential oils. Perhaps no flower epitomizes the sweet aromas of June and July more than lavender. Grown by the Greeks and Romans, this storied herb releases a natural perfume that relaxes, soothes, and when applied topically, heals minor wounds.
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After 34 years in Bellingham, the Fairhaven Organic Flour Mill has moved. The new site at 808 N. Hill Boulevard in Burlington, just off the I-5 freeway, offers easier access to Washington State’s only organic flour mill. The move gives Fairhaven Mill a larger facility and an additional hammer mill, dedicated to milling gluten free flours.
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Few pleasures in life are as sweet as biting into a crisp, fresh autumn apple. We love to eat this delicious fruit, yet not many of us know about the apple’s remarkable evolution or can guess its important future role in local agriculture.
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RECIPE

This recipe brings together two autumn favorites—pumpkin and apples—in a deliciously spiced bread.

Moist and flavorful, this sweet bread can be made with canned pumpkin and almost any kind of apple. To capture the flavors of the season even more, try using a fresh pie pumpkin (sugar pumpkin). Just bake, scrape out the pumpkin’s flesh, and puree it in a food processor.


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When most people think about farms, they picture vegetable stands, rows of crops, fresh produce and grazing animals. These days, they might add something new to that picture: fine art. A surprising number of artists are living and creating their art in rural places. Whether life in the country draws them to create their art, or their creativity draws them to find quiet, natural spaces, the rhythms and patterns of the country life around them almost invariably influence their work.

The Beauty of Lightning

For Don Anderson, whose dramatic metal sculptures grace the lawn at Applewood Farm Studios in the Cascade foothills, nature is a dynamic catalyst. Anderson derives his abstract images by observing fractals and recurring energy themes like wind, heat and waves.
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