New 2014 Guide To Local Farm Products Is Now Available

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The Yeatman family of Landenberg has grown sumptuous mushrooms marketed as Mother Earth Organic Mushrooms for the past 90 years.

These are a treat you and other locals who like to eat fresh and locally might miss unless you read the new 2014  Guide to Local Farm Products in Chester County, now available from Chester County online here.

6.12.2014 Farm Products in Chester CountyThe 32-page interactive online guide was just published by the Chester County Agricultural Development Council.

The guide spotlights local farmers like the Yeatman Family, who were Farmer of the Year in 1993, along with past Farmers of the Year Karen Vollmecke of Vollmecke Orchards in Coatesville, and Bill Beam of Beam Farms, Inc. in Elverson.

Vollmecke grows organic fruits and vegetables and runs a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) on her Coatesville farm and was Farmer of the Year in 2006.  Beam, who farms grain and sells bulked and baled wood shavings, was Farmer of the Year in 1990.  Their profiles are good reminders of the usually-unseen tillers of the soil who have provided us with fresh food for so many years.

This year’s guide also celebrates farmers you may have heard of recently, this year’s Farmer of the Year Award winners Peter Flynn of Pete’s Produce Farm in Westtown, and Drs. Tom and Barbara Schaer of Meadowset Farm and Apiary in Landenberg.

The summer harvest is looking promising, and this guide will give you a farm product calendar and tell you how to take advantage of the bounty.  It lists more than a 100 local farms, farmer’s markets, farm outlets, CSAs and specialty product stores for items such as honey and ice cream.  There are also tips on eating seasonally and locally, and articles on pollination and agriculture careers.

Also listed are contacts for locally important advocacy organizations such as the Farm Bureau, Chester County Economic Development Council, Central and Western Chester County Industrial Development Council, the Chester County Food Bank, American Mushroom Institute, and AgConnect.

The guide is also available at the Government Services Center, 601 Westtown Road, West Chester, at the Chester County administration building at 313 West Market St. in West Chester, and at local libraries, municipal buildings, and other public places.

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