This hearty satisfying casserole is chock full of great local ingredients! Local sausage, eggs, and bread come together to make a terrific addition to your family’s holiday breakfast table. Make this great casserole the night before and simply pop it in the oven the next morning!
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Special Delivery: Oozy Gooey Harbison
Harbison is a soft-ripened cheese with a rustic, bloomy rind. Its outer rind is wrapped in strips of the inner bark of the spruce tree, harvested from the farm’s woodlands.
Continue ReadingHope for the Holidays: Treat Yourself
As December wears on, you may find yourself wearing out. Several of our Hope for the Holidays items are just what you need to pamper yourself and rejuvenate before it’s time for more holiday socializing. With each that you purchase, we’ll make a donation to promote access to healthy food in our community. Republic of…
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New “Gifts for Good” Gift Packs
This year we’ve expanded our annual Hope for the Holidays campaign to include gift packs featuring locally or cooperatively made products we’re excited about. In addition to generating a donation to Hope for the Holidays, purchasing these Gifts for Good supports a small, local producer or a cooperative doing good elsewhere in the world. Each…
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Old-Fashioned Chocolate Pudding
This recipe comes from Emily Buehler, our Website Coordinator. Her mom used to make it after Halloween, to use up all the chocolate candy that the kids were not allowed to eat! Emily recommends Ran-Lew Dairy milk, which has a creamy flavor that makes superb hot chocolate and pudding.
Continue ReadingHouse-made Holiday Hams
Our holiday menu includes smoked half hams and petite hams. These Weaver Meats hams are hickory smoked in-house at our Food House in Hillsborough. They are seasoned with garlic, rosemary, and juniper berries and are cured for two to three weeks.
Continue ReadingHoliday Waste Reduction Guide
This guide is reprinted from the Orange County Solid Waste and Recycling e-newsletter. Sign up to receive the monthly, informative e-news (as well as other county newsletters) here. Get the locations and hours of Waste and Recycling Centers here. Wrapping paper, greeting cards, and single layer gift-boxes: You may be the greenie in your family…
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This Year, Give Gifts for Good
This year, we’ve expanded our annual Hope for the Holidays campaign to include five gift packs. Buying one of these gift packs generates a $2 donation to Hope for the Holidays. In addition, the items in each gift pack were selected because of their positive impact in the world. Two of the gift packs feature…
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Hostess Gifts Are Ready to Go
December weekends are filled with holiday parties, from the office bash to the A Christmas Story movie night to the annual neighborhood caroling. When it starts to seem like you only have time for (a) baking for the party or (b) actually attending the party, we’ll help you with ready-to-gift hostess gifts.
Continue ReadingHope for the Holidays is Here
December begins our annual Hope for the Holidays campaign. We’ve selected over a dozen holiday favorites, like locally grown poinsettias and our house-made stollen and quick breads. Everytime you purchase a Hope for the Holidays item, we’ll make a donation to our Cooperative Community Fund (CCF), a sustainable endowment fund for community donations. The CCF…
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