Tue, May 6 2008

Down-Island Dish

Posted by Susie Middleton

If you ask me what my legitimate job is these days, I’ll tell you I’m writing a vegetable cookbook. Which is true. But every afternoon I untie my apron strings, put on my muddy boots, and follow my heart to one of the 30 small family farms here on the island of Martha’s Vineyard.  I bring a bucket of recipe test leftovers for my hog friends, and a head full of questions for my farmer friends. Because I’m on a mission to learn about small family farming and to help cooks and farmers reconnect.  In this blog, I’ll share the tiny miracles and Herculean feats I witness with every farm visit, and I’ll also show you how a dedicated group of cooks and growers in this one island community is working hard to promote local eating with smart programs –like a Farm to School initiative–that make sense to consider wherever you live.

 
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Sarah Breckenridge, Fine Cooking's managing web editor, blogs about cooking and living from a farm box-share program. Sarah is a member of the Sport Hill Farm CSA, based in Easton, CT.

Susie Middleton, former editor of Fine Cooking, is now living the freelance life on Martha’s Vineyard, where she’s working on a cookbook and delving into every corner of the island’s network of small family farmers and food producers.

Fine Cooking Contributing Editor Maryellen Driscoll and her husband raise pastured chickens and beef, as well as organic vegetables at Free Bird Farm in upstate New York. When she’s not working at farmers’ markets or helping to manage the farm (or their two children), Maryellen is often in the kitchen testing cookware for FC’s equipment department.

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