Articles written by Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen

Contain your enthusiasm: Review of “From Container To Kitchen”

By Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen • on July 10, 2010

As

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When push comes to chèvre at Lucky Penny Creamery

By Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen • on July 6, 2010

Before Local Roots Market opened late last year, we expected gaps in the products offered. One specific

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Growing with the grain: Review of “Homegrown Whole Grains”

By Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen • on June 21, 2010

As you may have guessed by now, I love to bake. And since part of my self-employment now entails baking goods to sell at Local

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So long office, hello farm!

By Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen • on June 6, 2010

Maybe there's something in the air (or soil or water).  Maybe it's the growing (no pun intended) interest in farming around the country.  Maybe... it's

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Giving everyone a Grand (Opening, at Local Roots)

By Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen • on May 16, 2010

One year ago, the twelve of us who formed the steering committee of the Wooster Local Food Cooperative, Inc., held a

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Bringing everyone to the table: A review of “PolyCultures”

By Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen • on April 21, 2010

A handful of recent movies - most notably "Food, Inc." and "Fresh" - have undoubtedly boosted the number of people with something to say about national

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Yes, we can… and we relish it!

By Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen • on March 20, 2010

Last Sunday, I started the day by catching up on email and blogs and stumbled through a link to a recent Slate

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The pie’s the limit! Get baking for Pi Day, March 14

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The spirit is willing, and the fresh is weekly: Review of “A Year on the Garden Path”

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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

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Cultivating community in Ohio: Local Roots crops get sweeter in winter

Three months have passed since my last update on Local Roots Market

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Grow-hio: Midwestern farmers rely on Eliot Coleman’s advice for cold-weather farming

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

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Sharon, the bounty!: A review of Astyk’s “Independence Days”

Ever since the idea of going locavore, or eating local on 100-mile diets, tiptoed into the mainstream a couple of years ago, more people have chosen to support their local farmers markets and to eat fresh

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Open season: Local Roots Markets opens in Wooster, Ohio

Nine months doesn't really seem like a very long time: over the span of a lifetime, just a mere hiccup on a long journey. But when you're in the midst of those nine months (ask any expectant mother), you

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