30 Second Recipe: Spinach Smoothie

other flavors to add to this basic recipe (one or two at a time):

• basil
  
• mint
• lemon
• cilantro
• vanilla

Getting so many greens is what makes it so healthy-  blended up, you can take in far more spinach or lettuce than you would in a salad.

Locally Known- about the farm video

Living Well

from the Portland Press Herald:









the tractor photoshoot was pretty fun...

recipes!

A number of new recipes in our Chef's Corner. So far, they're all from my kitchen, but please email me if you have something you'd like to add! brook @ locallyknownfoods.com.

nutrition science

There are a number of reasons to eat organic and local. Here's a study that reports organic foods are, on average, more nutritious than conventional-chemically farmed foods. What's interesting about this study is that it's actually a study of other studies. The researchers screened reports from as far back as 1980, and selected 97 reports to base their research on.

As most people realize, and Michael Pollan says best, nutrition science is changing rapidly. Various elements of foods, such as polyphenols and antioxidants, were unimportant to the public mind 10 or 20 years ago, and now are widely recognized as essential to good nutrition.

There are reasons to eat organic that are easy to understand: pesticides & chemical fertilizers leave residue that is harmful to the land, and potentially harmful to the people who have to work with them. It seems logical that those chemical residues shouldn't be ingested, and there is evidence that organic food is more nutritious.

Organic food, in the US certification system, can't be irradiated, which potentially kills the healthful enzymes in the food that aid in digestion.

However, it is the system, the gestalt, the whole, of the food and the farmland that is still tricky to know and perhaps the best reason to choose organic: we understand food and nutrition less than we should to experiment with it on our own bodies. I know that if I eat organic foods, they are the closest to what my body has evolved to thrive on.

Photos from Press Event with Governor Baldacci

It was a beautiful day yesterday for an event. You can read the press release form the Governor's office here.



The food from Isha's kitchen was amazing and local, and it was wonderful to meet so many people with an interest in the Locally Known mission.

Thank you all for attending!

Boston Globe Article

Today's Boston Globe has an article about our farm. I've added pictures here that the online version doesn't have.