Forest Hills Connection || News and Life in Our DC Neighborhood
Covering Forest Hills, Van Ness, North Cleveland Park and Wakefield
A month ago, we learned how the farmers market that comes to Sheridan School every Saturday (and some Tuesdays) from June through March manages to produce spring and summer greens in the cold of winter. New Morning Farm’s first newsletter of the new year reveals another trick of the trade: A fall and winter delicacy […]
by Marlene Berlin While shopping recently at the New Morning Farm market at Sheridan School, I overheard them describe growing greens in a “tunnel.” My vision of an underground bunker with lights was soon dispelled in my telephone conversation with Jim Crawford, who for more than 40 years has owned and operated this certified-organic farm […]
by Jenn Krasilovsky and Andrea Gudeon Pumpkins — whether baked in a pie, flavoring a latte, or perched on your front porch on the last night of October — are a popular sign of the season. But this versatile fall vegetable should also have a starring role on your dinner plate. Many of the hundreds […]
by Andrea Gudeon If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? What is the sound of one hand clapping? Is a salad a salad without lettuce? Okay, maybe this last one isn’t yet one of the great philosophical riddles of our time, but […]
by Mamatha Hanumappa If you are a regular visitor to the Van Ness farmers market, it is very likely that you do not need an introduction to the University of the District of Columbia. But did you know that UDC is a land-grant university in the heart of DC? Yes, UDC is the only urban […]
by Marlene Berlin Compari and Kumato tomatoes get me through the winter. At least, they try. But there is nothing like biting into that first big, bright red perfect tomato from the farmers market…. one that not so long ago was straight off the vine. It looks like all those beautiful but tasteless ones you […]
The UDC/Van Ness Main Street Farmers Market opens for the season on Saturday, May 4th. It’s returning to the same location (the UDC law school at 4340 Connecticut) during the same times (8 a.m. to 2 p.m.). The farmers are returning for another year. The DPW compost collectors are back. And so are the local […]
by Marlene Berlin This is for all you backyard, balcony and window sill gardeners. At the UDC farmers market last Saturday, it was the variegated sage in a friend’s box that caught my eye. She showed me where to find it. I got some herbs and flowering plants. The selection and price were great – […]
This stand stands out among the fruits and vegetables and other delectables at the UDC farmers market. Anette Casiano-Negroni of AromabyAnette creates and sells lotions and scrubs. I bought one of her lotions and fell in love with the product. Naturally, I had to learn her story. And teaching, as it turns out, is how […]
UDC’s final farmers market of the season was the Saturday before Thanksgiving. A few days before that, we learned that Bread Furst Chef Robert Dalliah was a weekly shopper. The Wall Street Journal included that tidbit in a feature about the District’s farmers markets. The UDC farmers market, which has well–served our community, will return […]
