For the past few weeks, I’ve been watching the snow drift down with deceptive lightness, only to accumulate in deep piles (18″ and counting here in northeastern Ohio) that have well and truly buried any remotely green thing on the ground. While it’s lovely to sit inside and watch winter’s show, I also find myself reaching for the seed catalogs. Winter may not depress me as it does some people, but now and again I long... 

Every time I’ve looked out the window this week, I’ve felt a childlike glee at the sight of all the snow piled up. A whopping 18″ dropped in 24 hours last weekend, a few more inches covered that earlier this week, and more is in the forecast. I really sympathize with the folks further south ( south! ) who have had twice as much snow and nowhere near the amount of equipment to deal with it all; after five years of living in... 

Three months have passed since my last update on Local Roots Market in Wooster, Ohio. Back then, were on the cusp of opening at last. What’s happened in the meantime? A lot . Following the close of the Downtown Farmers Market at the end of October, Local Roots Market opened as an indoor farmers market on November 7 with a roomful of tables for local produce and baked goods as well as individual freezers for producers’ meats. Customers... 

As winter approaches, even the most knowledgeable of local-foods-loving shoppers have wondered what fresh produce they will find over the winter months, and the opening of a year-round market here in Wooster has only increased the frequency of that musing. Happily, I can point to a handful of our producer members who are likely to have greens and other vegetables coming from their high tunnels or hoop houses, taking a page from Eliot Coleman...