If you haven’t visited Ferda’s this season, you may not know that we now carry spices and seasoning blends from Frontier Natural Products Co-op.  Now that you are cooking more at home to save money and eat healthier, adding flavor to your dishes is more important that ever.  Come in and check out all the wonderful flavors!

And, if that isn’t enough to bring you in, here’s a source for a $1.00 off coupon you can print out from Eating Well Magazine.  Print the coupon and bring it in for $1.00 off a bottled spice or seasoning blend.  (The coupons cycle through, so if it isn’t available on your first attempt, try the link again later, or click the “shop” button along the top and choose “Coupons” from the drop down menu.) See you soon, and “Happy cooking!”

Definition:

Locavore  (loh-kuh-vohr)- noun.  A person whose diet focuses on foods grown and produced nearby, typically 100 miles.

I am compiling information about sources for foodstuffs (fruits, vegetables, honey, jams and jellies, syrups, meats, cheeses, eggs, wine) that are grown  or produced in our Ohio Valley area (within 100 miles or so of Ferda’s Garden Center).  I am putting together a web site that locavores or potential locavores can use to find sources of local foods and beverages.  If you know of any farmers who sell their produce, meats or cheeses locally, or vintners who produce local wines, or restaurants that use local ingredients in their food, please help me out by letting me know about them.  Or if you know someone who would know about these sources, please share that information.  You can phone me at the garden center (740-546-4467) or email me at lynn@ferdas.com or fax me at 740-546-3241. 

We’ll be open for the spring season beginning on Saturday, March 15th.  Join us during our regular hours from 9AM to 5PM. 

The early spring edition of the Leaflet (the newsletter from Ferda’s Garden Center) should be in your mailbox next week just in time for Easter.  If you don’t get one, you aren’t on our mailing list.  Stop in at the garden center or send us an email and we’ll add your name and address to the list.

Written by Lynn on the slope of Teasel Hill where I am celebrating reaching my Weight Watchers goal! 

Thank you to all of you who have sent thoughts my way for my Dad, Chuck Burris, who died on Wednesday, February 20th.   Many of you know him from the days when he was in charge of seeding and transplanting the vegetables and flats of flowers we grew here at Ferda’s.  He was instrumental in helping Bob and me get the Garden Center started in 1979 and 1980– giving us financial help as well as his unpaid labor and good advice.  We will all miss him!

Written by Lynn on the slope of Teasel Hill, spending a quiet day– remembering.