If you're a Bucks dweller, with a penchant for local food and/or wine (Ooh me! Me!) then check out these local events this weekend. And checkout my sweet little tulip from my garden. Had to slip that in, because it makes me smile every time I go outside and see it greeting me.
It's important to me to highlight the local farmers markets here. We've gotten so used to running to the big box stores for everything that we have lost sight of how this little convenience to us has really affected our local farmers and artists. Not to mention, our loss of a connection as a neighborhood and community. And in turn, we also end up buying "easy", highly processed foods and meats, and veggies and fruit coated in pesticides and chemicals. So please think about heading to a farmers market by you this weekend, talk to the growers and your neighbors there. Make a connection, you never know who you might meet and what they might bring to your life. And check out one of my favorite chicks and her blog on Earthfoods, which can give you some tips on what to make with that food you buy there: http://earthfoodexperiment.wordpress.com/
Friday is First Friday in Doylestown, http://firstfridaydoylestown.com/. Good night out for the family. Or, you could stop by Shady Brook for the Wine Concert Series, which will have the Mango Men this week, http://www.shadybrookfarm.com/summer_wine.php. Both events run from 6-9.
On Saturday, try to make it to the Doylestown Farmers Market between 7-12, where you can find seasonal, chemical free, and low input vegetables, herbs, flowers, fruits; bedding, vegetable, herb plants, container gardens, and orchids; jams, pie filling and preserved products; pastured chicken and eggs, duck and duck eggs, turkey, goat, and lamb; artisan bread, baked goods (cookies, cakes, biscotti, pies, stromboli, Greek pastries); handmade soaps, lotions, and skin care products; goat cheeses, yogurt, milk and meat; mushrooms, honey, maple syrup, granola, and prepared foods. Locally handcrafted woodenware, beeswax candles, alpaca yarn and other products, glass jewelery. Whew! That's a lot, all in one place. Support your local farms and artists! This is located at W. State & Hamilton St., Doylestown, PA 18901. I'll be there, maybe I'll see you!!
The Wrightstown Farmers Market is also going on from 9-1pm, at Wrightstown Twp. Municipal Bldg (parking lot), 2203 2nd Street Pike, Wrightstown, PA. Smaller but excellent for staying local for eggs, soap and in season produce.
And of course, don't forget your Mother on Mothers Day! There are a ton of local wine tastings and events going on. Or a Pork and Sauerkraut Dinner at the Riegelsville Fire Company, if your mom digs that kind of thing. Sorry, mom. You're on your own for this one.
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