Mary Crimmins

Farmers Markets have been gaining in popularity all across the country. Woo-hoo! It’s so encouraging to see new small farms pop up each year. In fact, I just met a new farmer last weekend at my local market and was able to ask him all about his growing practices. We had a long conversation about [...]

What a beautiful holiday season. It’s hard to believe that we are less than a week away from entering into the New Year. I love looking back over this past year and noticing the trends of the local food movement. My take away is that the local scene is growing by leaps and bounds, and [...]

Last week I went to Publix to do some grocery shopping for a friend who was in the hospital. My task was to provide lunches for her kids and to buy in bulk. As I walked about the aisles, and started putting things in my basket I was struck with a dilemma. A dilemma that [...]

It’s hard to imagine a world where our weather patterns actually determine how much or little we can eat. Last year I was selling milk for a local farmer at the Market since he couldn’t physically be there. We had our usual Friday deliver for my Saturday market. I called him up Thursday night to [...]

It’s no surprise that conventional produce is often laden with chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides. So, how do you know which foods contain the most toxins? The Environmental Working Group publishes their results on this exact testing every year, and just released the results this week. If you aren’t able to purchase everything organic and/or local (which I [...]

Eating raw this week has reminded me of how important it is to “Shop the Perimeter” of the grocery store. For anyone who is looking to create healthier and fresher choices, the easiest way to do so is to stay out of the middle. The perimeter contains less items that have been processed. You have fresh breads, [...]

I get this question a lot, “So where do you shop?” I have a hard time answering this because I am known to gather my fridge and pantry items from around 5 different places during any given week. I have my favorite items scattered across the city – but my goal is to find the [...]