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Herbal Support For Your Everyday
Going for a stroll is a healing activity by itself. It helps support healthy heart function, improves balance and coordination, and if...

Blair Doucette
Aug 24, 20214 min read
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Edamame: A Controversial Health Food
Edamam-YAY! Edamame, what is it? Have you seen this beautiful legume that has recently been added to the farm stands? Edamame is a type...

Blair Doucette
Aug 17, 20213 min read
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Farm Update: Summer Wrap-Up
As the calendar pages flip by, it might be a good time to share a little end-of-summer update from the farm. Although the sun is high,...

Blair Doucette
Aug 10, 20213 min read
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Marjoram Medicinal Benefits
Learning about beneficial herbs and their medicinal properties is probably one of my favorite things to do (I know, I’m wild). Most of...

Blair Doucette
Aug 3, 20213 min read
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Virginia Farm Flavors: Hanover Tomatoes
A tomato is a tomato is a tomato, right? Nope. Not at all. Hanover tomatoes, the summertime belles of the ball at most local farm stands,...

Blair Doucette
Jul 27, 20213 min read
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Orach instead of Spinach
As the days meander on like a soft summer breeze, the season becomes hotter and hotter, with more intense storms and longer periods...

Blair Doucette
Jul 20, 20213 min read
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Virginia Farm Flavors: Meet Okra Winfrey
Okra may very well be one of the most glamorous crops we have here on the farm. This diva of a vegetable grows so tall that I (a person...

Blair Doucette
Jul 13, 20212 min read
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Virginia Farm Flavors: Green Beans
Food is so much more than just food. It’s community, it’s love, it’s often even a time capsule, holding on to memories of the past. This...

Blair Doucette
Jul 6, 20212 min read
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Bee a Friend To Pollinators
Taking a weeklong break from our Virginia Farm Flavors series, I wanted to talk about one of the smallest, but hardest-working employees...

Blair Doucette
Jun 29, 20213 min read
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Virginia Farm Flavors: Collards
I’d like to take the next few blog posts to continue on with our series on Virginia farm flavors for those neighbors of ours who may be...
knease1
Jun 22, 20212 min read
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Virginia Flavors: Squash Dangit! It’s a Squash Highlight
So many Chickahominy Falls neighbors and Woodside Farms friends are new to the Richmond area, or even new to Virginia as a whole. This...
knease1
Jun 15, 20212 min read
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Bug Off!
While bug season is swarming closer and closer to home, you may be at the ready with some store-bought bug sprays. But did you know, you...

Blair Doucette
Jun 8, 20212 min read
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The Good, The Bad and The Bug-ly
Here we go, into the thick of bug and pest season. With every swish past a fresh young brassica plant or perusal through a cucumber row...
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Jun 1, 20213 min read
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Companion Planting
Companion planting is a type of wisdom that comes with thousands of years of experience. Basically, this just means planting more than...
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May 25, 20212 min read
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Enjoy Local Produce!!!
Whether you’re a consistent and organized meal prepper (what’s that like?) or you’re more of a fly by the seat of your pants, whatever’s...
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May 18, 20213 min read
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Woodside, A Beautiful, Edible Garden
While taking a walk through the fields here at Woodside Farms, just about everything you touch is edible, medicinal, or beneficial in...
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May 10, 20212 min read
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Health Properties of Lavender
If you were to sit back and close your eyes (don’t this now, just keep reading) while the pleasing scent of lavender wafted into your...
knease1
May 5, 20213 min read
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The Power & Beauty of Calendula
Spring has sprung and with the 80 degree days just around the corner, we find ourselves relying more and more on plant magic to help heal...
knease1
Apr 28, 20213 min read
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Woodside Farms Celebrates Earth Day
This year, Earth day is going to be (biode-)GREAT(able)! If you’ve already read our newsletter, I’m sorry for using the same joke twice -...
knease1
Apr 20, 20212 min read
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Woodside Farms Partners
Saturdays now have a new rhythm as we swing into spring. Every Saturday from 9 am-noon, we’ll be having our farm stands outside, under...
knease1
Apr 13, 20213 min read
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