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Grow New Farmers...
to grow food for you!
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Greetings!
July is the month when garlic is harvested, tops turn brown and fall to the ground. This crop was planted in October, sprouted green in early Spring and is now curing in the barn! More photos posted on WMF Facebook page!
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We invite you out to the farm for our monthly vegan potluck on Friday, July 15th, starting at 6:00 PM. We'll be stoking up the cob oven, testing out a portable rocket stove made from recycled cans, and you can check out the recently built stone spiral herb garden. Please bring a musical instrument or tune to share around the fire after the meal!
Aside from our regular delivery to Tuscarora Organic Grower's Co-op, we are expanding our production to providing fresh vegetables and sourdough breads to Bedford County through an on-line farmer's market called Bedford.LocallyGrown.net. Sign up for an account and order fresh produce and breads today! If you are a grower and need another outlet for your products, contact us at 814-839-4962.
Joyfully,
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Grow a New Farmer...
to Grow Food for You!
Our 2011 farm interns are hard at work. From Rockville, MD and Canton, Massachusetts, both couples are aspiring new farmers and homesteaders!
 From left to right... (Jenifer Perry & Travis Boulden~ Rockville, MD) (Michelle Kaplan & Ted Okun~Canton, MA) These interns are the life blood and breath of Wild Meadows Farm gardens and workshops. They double dig, plant, harvest, bake, cook, organize... and they learn, putting traditional skills to use in innovative ways. They also bring their knowledge, inquisitiveness, and humor to our daily work flow. Pictured above at a neighboring farm, riding a transplanter with a fall crop of broccoli. We are getting ready for our second spring & starting cold-loving crop seedlings! $1,500 is all it takes to sustain the internship program each year. A donation of $150 supports an intern for a month. Help grow a new farmer with a donation at one of the following levels: - Acorn $5 to $24
- Seedling $25 to $99
- Sapling $100 to $249
- Mighty Chestnut $250 +
Please support this important part of Wild Meadows Farm's work by making a tax-deductible donation to CHEARS (Chesapeake Education, Arts, and Research Society). CHEARS is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and the internship program is a seedling project that started to bloom organically when both couples asked to be full-season interns at Wild Meadows Farm. Grow Food Power & Right to Livelihood! 
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There is something so valuable about getting away and joining others in coming into alignment with your own authenticity. The Big Glow retreats with Brian Piergrossi, and other featured guests, are a unique, wonderful weekend of insight, connection and enlightenment as an experiential answer to life's deeper questions. To learn more details and to register, click here! Primitive Skills (August 19-21st) Wild Meadows Farm is hosting and organizing a primitive skills weekend workshop with Kenny Point and award-winning basket maker Loretta Radeschi of Bedford, PA. 
Are you interested in building a primitive shelter construction, foraging for wild edibles, making fire by friction, and cooking over a steam pit?? Join us for a 2 day workshop on these topics and more. The basket weaving class will be offered by Loretta after lunch on Sunday with some of the materials harvested from the farm. To register and for more information, you can click here or call Michelle Kaplan at 814-839-4962 or email at mlkj21@gmail.com!
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Creating Your Edible Estate... Introductory Workshop Series in Northern Virginia with Joel Cahalan. Transform your yard into an awe inspiring, productive and diverse edible landscape with food forests, biointensive gardening and permaculture principles. We focus on integrating and increasing diverse habitat while producing a cornucopia of nutrient dense food for your family. Session I: Theory and Design Saturday, August 27 Learn the theory, practical steps and tools necessary to create an edible landscape design. Students will leave with a free site design that can be easily implemented in any space! Session II: Site Preparation-Soil, Water and Wildlife Sunday, September 11 Creating the right conditions before you start planting will insure success. Soil testing and improvement create ideal conditions for plant growth. Water is a vital element in edible landscapes. Students learn the basics of rain barrels, drip irrigation and other water saving techniques. Deer and other wildlife can quickly devour your garden without the right protection. Learn how to make sure you get to harvest what you plant. Session III: Getting Established Sunday, September 18 Installing perennials at the host site give us the hands on skills needed to establish your own edible landscape and avoid common mistakes. Maintenance methods that reduce labor and increase yields help us to enjoy what nature provides. Sesssion IV: Ensuring an Abundant Harvest Sunday, October 16 This class familiarizes you with ensuring a continual harvest, even in winter! Using simple techniques to extend the harvest as well as preserve it make eating year round from your yard easy! Cost is $60 per day or $200 for all 4 sessions. Class Size: 12-20 people Register Now!
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What's Growing in the Solar Greenhouse? 
Tomatoes, Peppers, Eggplants, Basil and more! Check out Bedford.LocallyGrown.net
to order from the farm!
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Stuffed Zucchini Squash Blossoms
Here at Wild Meadows Farm we have the advantage of meeting many different people who come to work, learn, and share in potlucks. Naturally they bring their favorite recipes to share with us and we quickly adapt them to use whatever we have growing on the farm. Here's one of our favorites!
Ingredients
1/2 cup raw cashews, soaked for at least a couple hours, or overnight, and drained
1/4 cup raw walnuts
1 tbsp. shiro (white) miso
2 tbsp. nutritional yeast flakes (optional, but great if you like nooch)
1 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
chopped fresh herbs - sage, Italian parsley, and basil, between a teaspoon and tablespoon of each
salt and black pepper to taste
Step by Step Instructions
Process everything but the herbs in a blender or food processor, and mix in the herbs at the end.
A cake decorating funnel bag makes filling the blossoms a snap. If you don't have one, you can just cut a small corner off a plastic sandwich bag. Fill each blossom about 2/3 full. Use a little filling to get the blossoms to stick together and stay closed.
In one bowl, mix about a cup of water or unsweetened nondairy milk with about a tbsp. of corn starch or potato starch. Mix regularly while you're doing this, so the starch stays suspended in the liquid.
In a second bowl, Mix a half cup of all-purpose flour with about a tsp. of salt, and generous sprinkles of black pepper, dried thyme, oregano, and sage.
With your fingers or tongs, carefully dip a blossom first in flour mixture, shaking off extra flour after removal. Then immerse the blossom in the starch/liquid mixture. Finally, dip the moistened blossom back in the flower mixture, coat completely, and again lightly shake off excess flour.
Almost there! Fry each blossom for about five minutes, in preheated oil on the stove top. Use canola or peanut oil for a light frying on both sides.
There you go! They are great appetizers and add flavor to any summer dish! Enjoy...Mmmm Written by Mike K!
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VIDEO~Food Movement Rising: Join Us NOW!
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Although based in California, we aspire to the goals of Roots of Change, which is to build a common interest in food and farming so that every aspect of our food-from the time it's grown to the time it's eaten- can be healthy, safe, profitable, affordable and fair.
GET INVOLVED
Everyone can play a role in the effort to move to a healthier farming and food system.
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You can now become a fan of WILD MEADOWS FARM on Facebook and receive updated information in a format that may best suit your networking preferences. We will continue to communicate via email but are pleased to offer yet another method to share information about upcoming events, discussion boards, photo albums, and much more. We look forward to your feedback and suggestions as we move the farm into the social networking arena.
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 WILD MEADOWS FARM is offering an exciting line-up of educational and community activities and events in 2011. Receive up-to-the-minute information by following WILDMEADOWSFARM on Twitter- an information sharing network. - Simply register at http://twitter.com
- Add WILDMEADOWSFARM as a friend and follow
- Choose how you wish to receive information (email, text message, rss feed)
And never again miss any of our educational and community events.
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