Blog posts tagged 'Mid Atlantic':
We're working with a new farm! Burke's Garden Farm, an Amish ranch in "God's Thumbprint"
December 1st, 2017 by Joe Heitzeberg • Read 13,763 times • 1 min read
If you flew over the remote community of Burke’s Garden in a plane, you’d see a valley spread out below you like a crater in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. Appalachian Trail thru-hikers who come upon it don’t know they’ve stumbled into a place locals call “God’s Thumbprint” -- they just know they’ve happened upon the most beautiful, secluded vista they’ve seen on the trail yet. Much of Burke’s Garden is covered by Burke’s Garden...
Cottonwood Ranch is producing craft beef (with the help of craft beer)
October 3rd, 2017 by Joe Heitzeberg • Read 9,504 times • 1 min read
At Port City Brewing Co. in Alexandria, Virginia, huge amounts of barley are turned into delectable, malty brews each week. But did you know that fermenty, delicious beer isn't the only thing you end up with when you produce beer? The other element that gets produced when you make beer is brewer's mash, or what's sometimes in the industry called "spent grain." (Read: Used up. No good. Waste.) But in recent years, craft breweries have...