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Get Your Braise On!
How To Braise If you’ve never tried braising before, it’s an excellent option for turning tougher cuts of meat into tender, fall-off-the-bone meals packed with flavor.
Happy Earth Day! Reducing Our Carbon Footprint
Earth Day is an event that drives awareness to critical environmental issues. Up until the first Earth Day in the 1970s, Americans were largely unaware of the potential consequences of their consumption of vast amounts of fossil fuels and dangerous agricultural chemicals.
Behind the Scenes with Walden’s Own Candlemaker
Interview with Red
Young Farmers Who Are Rebuilding Local Agriculture
We’ve always tried to highlight that New England and New York is the one region in the country where the average age of farmers is declining, the size of farms is declining, and the number of farms is increasing.
Farmer Profiles: Beth and Bruce
Beth Whiting and Bruce Hennessey raise broad-breasted white turkeys on pasture for Walden members’ Thanksgiving shares.
Braising with Melissa
Walden Local Meat membership means supporting a system of agriculture where the farmer is not only paid a living wage, but they are also able to sell the whole animal they raise.
When ‘Cooking at Home’ Is Not Really ‘Home Cooking
When a Walden package arrives at your doorstep, we hope it’s an inspiration – Meat that will be a foundation for your meal and bond you to a community that shares our commitment to sustainable and healthy animals, soils, and food.
Women in Agriculture
International Women’s Day (IWD) first appeared in the early 1900s when 15,000 women gathered to march through the streets of New York City, and demanded better working conditions, pay, and voting rights.
Understanding How Soil May Save Our Planet: A Carbon Farming Breakdown
In 1937, amid the Dust Bowl crisis, Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered a speech with the following quotation: “A nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.” A 2012 article in Time written by the World Economic Forum pulls FDR’s line forward with an ominous portent for our global future: at the current pace of degradation, the world has roughly 60 years of topsoil left.
Farmer Profile: Haden Gooch
Haden Gooch and his partner Katie produce pasture-raised chickens for Walden. They started an ice cream company in Portland, Maine last year to help fund their dream dairy farm and to spread the word about the benefits of grass-based farming.
Why Local Part III: Earn 3X Your Money!
We have written extensively here and elsewhere about why we think building a local food community matters
Partner Farmers: Anna Houston + Rob Perazzo
Anna Houston has a special way of describing the happy, healthy chickens that she and her partner Rob Perazzo raise on their New Marlborough, MA farm. “They’re total freaks,” she said with a laugh.