Posts Tagged ‘Strawberries’

Recipe: Strawberry Spinach Salad with Feta

Ingredients

  • 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
  • 1/3 cup balsamic vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon brown sugar
  • 1 cup light olive oil
  • 1 pound baby spinach or 1 head romaine, bibb or green leaf lettuce, torn into small pieces
  • 1 pint fresh strawberries, sliced
  • 1 cup feta cheese, crumbled
  • almonds or walnuts, chopped and toasted

Directions

Wash the spinach or lettuce and dry well. In a bowl, whisk together the oil, vinegar, mustard, and brown sugar. In a salad bowl, toss the spinach or lettuce with the dressing. Sprinkle the strawberry slices, the feta and the nuts over the top.

Vendors in the News: Whitted Bowers Farm

Raskin: Biodynamic farming combines spirit, stewardship

By Melanie Raskin
Durham Herald Sun

Cheri, Rob, and Tea Bowers

Cheri, Tea, and Rob Bowers

It’s October and Rob and Cheri Bowers have been planting blueberries, digging sweet potatoes and tending the Southern heirloom apple trees and grape arbors. They’ve also been carefully charting the movement of the moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn.

The Bowers run Whitted Bowers Farm in Cedar Grove, the only certified biodynamic farm in North Carolina (and, much of the southeast, actually). Biodynamic farming combines the cosmic influences of the sun, moon, planets and stars with stewardship of the Earth to preserve our planet’s vitality and increase people’s connection to their food. More