Paw(p)-Up Market This Saturday
Some of our best friends in the world have paws for feet, enjoy the occasional trash bin perusal, and are really really good at doing a...
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bdoucette7
- Apr 19
- 3 min
Earth Day at Woodside Farms
For over 50 years, Earth Day has helped to bring much-needed attention to our largest, yet most fragile home, planet Earth. Over the decades
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Blair Doucette
- Apr 5
- 3 min
Seed Between The Lines With Companion Planting
Companion planting is the practice of sowing different plant species within close proximity in an effort to utilize different beneficial fea
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bdoucette7
- Mar 9
- 7 min
Celebrate the Spring Equinox with These Healthy Recipes
March 20th - the vernal equinox - marks the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere.
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Blair Doucette
- Dec 19, 2022
- 5 min
Self-Care this Winter
We’re incredibly lucky here in the part of the commonwealth where the rolling Piedmont meets the gentle Coastal region to keep us fairly pro
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bdoucette7
- Dec 1, 2022
- 2 min
How Mindfulness Can Help Diabetes
Many of us know by now that mindfulness practices, like yoga and meditation, have positive health benefits. But if you’re like me, you might
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bdoucette7
- Nov 21, 2022
- 4 min
Your Winter Herbal Cupboard
Now, as the daylight hours crawl into bed earlier and the fields hunker down for the winter, we find ourselves nestling in with a blanket or
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Blair Doucette
- Nov 15, 2022
- 3 min
Fall on the Farm & Ways to Stay Healthy
We’re so fortunate to live where we do, with easy access to the city and a major interstate that could get us just about anywhere, yet tucke
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bdoucette7
- Oct 18, 2022
- 3 min
The Health Benefits of Taking Breaks Outdoors
breaks, especially outside, has been shown to lead to healthier and happier lives, as well as contribute to increased overall production
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bdoucette7
- Sep 28, 2022
- 2 min
Make With The Oom-Pah-Pah!
Thirsty for a good time? An Oktoberfest-shaped slice of Bavaria is coming to the farm on Saturday, October 15th from 10 am-2 pm.
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bdoucette7
- Sep 21, 2022
- 5 min
A Few Easy Fall Rituals
What is the Autumnal Equinox? The Autumnal Equinox is technically the first day of fall, which arrives this year on Thursday, September 22nd
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bdoucette7
- Sep 8, 2022
- 6 min
What To Do With Extra Okra and Green Beans
We’re up to our eyeballs in okra and green beans here on the farm to the point where we almost can’t see an end in sight.
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bdoucette7
- Aug 30, 2022
- 3 min
Woodside Farms & Your Everyday Life
Since Woodside Farms opened its farm gates in 2018, there have been a lot of changes - a lot...
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bdoucette7
- Aug 23, 2022
- 4 min
Optimal Nutrition & Real Food
So, if I were to boil everything that I learned in grad school about optimal nutrition down to just one small concept it would be: eat real
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bdoucette7
- Aug 2, 2022
- 3 min
Stop and Smell The Kale - The Health Benefits of Gardening
Gardening, along with volunteering on a farm (ahem, like at Woodside Farms), can have many health and therapeutic benefits.
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bdoucette7
- Jul 22, 2022
- 2 min
The Hanover Tomato, Central Virginia’s Most Famous Ingredient
Since these tomato seeds are planted deep into the Hanover soil, each and every tomato that is produced on this farm is a Hanover Tomato. No
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bdoucette7
- Jul 14, 2022
- 3 min
Our World and Microplastics - What can we do?
A few years ago, the world began to take note of the ever-more-present composition of plastics in our oceans. We began to notice what are...
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bdoucette7
- Jul 6, 2022
- 3 min
CSA Members: The Seeds That Grow Our Farm
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs blossomed in a post-Green Revolution world. The Green Revolution is a model of farming...
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bdoucette7
- Jun 14, 2022
- 2 min
Pause for Purslane
Here we go, I’m very excited! I was introduced to purslane as a somewhat beneficial weed while working here at Woodside Farms my first...
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bdoucette7
- May 17, 2022
- 4 min
It's Important To Know Where Your Food Comes From
Do you know where your food comes from? That seems like a rather simple question. But if you were to open your refrigerator right now and...
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