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Marada’s Dispatches: What it takes to come through (the food chain) …
Every other distributor in New England was short for their fiddlehead orders this week. I am saying this proudly and mindfully as the record sales this past week delivered out-of-stocks on several hot ticket produce items – just not on … Continue reading
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Marada’s Dispatches: Katahdin Potatoes, Greener Cleaner, Maine Fresh Pies, and Village Farm microgreens …
(Editor’s Note: Yep. I’m behind again. Bear with me while I get them posted. –Leah) First off, thanks a lot to the 5! people who emailed in turnip recipes, including a link to this blog The Bitten Word, this recipe … Continue reading
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Chicken Soup for the Warehouse Soul
(In the words of 21 year old Crown O’Maine employee, Katrina) Not all of us choose to eat these infamous BLTs, but I eat them ALMOST everyday. After the cover letter about the lunchtime habits of COMOC, I had to … Continue reading
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Marada’s Dispatches: Heirloom pumpkins, organic apples, and what happened to BLTs around here?
A few weeks ago I took a public stab at the office lunches around here. What can I say? I was ‘inspired’ by Slow Foods $5 meal challenge, and stories they posted of businesses that had started lunch coops, etc. The … Continue reading
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Producer Snapshot: Simon Frost of Thirty Acre Farm
April 2010. He stands at the top, hands clasped over his head, grinning down into the applause chiming up freshly raised beams of a great barn. Thirty Acre Farm in Whitefield was transformed from woodland into farmland in just three … Continue reading
Custodians of Taste or Glorified Floor Sweepers?
The second spin on the dilemma is the co-producer explanation: every time a case is shipped on our truck, the product is wrought more firmly into a solid existence in the Maine foodscape. Half the battle is getting it on the truck. The other half is keeping it up-to-snuf. Continue reading
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We may not know what we’re doing, but we know we’re doing it…
After being asked and asked for something ‘more’ and pondering the nature of ‘more’, Leah and I have decided that a blog is a better forum for Crown O’Maine to interact online than a Facebook Page (surprise!). In the upcoming … Continue reading
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Starting up…
Just starting this up. On my mind: Island Flavors. Heirloom Apples we missed today because of porcupines and over-friendly dogs, fiddlehead differences from river to river, how to structure this thing (the blog)…and COMOC think tanks on the third floor … Continue reading
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