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New Favorite Sweatshirt
Do you have a favorite sweatshirt? That one that is so comfy and also fits so well? Do you wear it to bed, to run errands, to the movies, and to the farmers market? Does it also have a spaghetti sauce stain, a hole in the sleeve, and become so thread bare that maybe...
Local Gift Guide with the Team
What do you get the person that has everything, the person that's really picky, or the person that you feel deserves something more than the convenient gift card? The answer is simple, something thoughtful and unique! The choices at both Countryside Old Trail School...
What the Heck is Celeriac
Have you ever felt adventurous enough to purchase a vegetable you weren’t familiar with and attempt to cook it?
I did once, and I don’t regret a thing.
Forever Grateful
The holiday season is here! The holidays are servant reminders to me to be grateful, kind and giving. I vividly remember holiday visits to my Grandparents. We’d eat lots of food – especially treats that were usually scarce at home, like veggie trays with fancy dips...
Making Heads or Tails of Cocktails and Mocktails
What would Thanksgiving be without a little festive beverage?! I don’t want to know. It doesn’t have to be alcoholic, just something that fills you with joy and warms your soul. This year for our Friendsgiving, I will be making a couple of cocktails to share with the...
Thanksgiving: local or bust
I’m not a very good cook – I’m mediocre at best, but Thanksgiving has always been a time for me to get in there and get adventurous. No matter what goes wrong (and something always will), Thanksgiving is my favorite because it’s all about the food.
Greens for the Blues
All of the excitement of snow can quickly turn into a case of the winter blues and if you’re like 3 million other Americans who suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), this time of year can be tough. While I’m certainly no medical professional, I’d like to take a quick minute to talk about what we can do to try and stay ahead of SAD and winter blues this season.
Squash Hands
I call it squash hands. The mysterious transformation of the skin on my hands after I cut up a butternut squash. It gets orange and tight and feels like I dipped my hands in gorilla glue. Like all things that ail me, I took to google.
What’s New at Countryside Public Market?
If you haven’t been to Countryside Public Market in a minute, you’ve been missing out! Each week our vendors harvest or come up with new and exciting things that we haven’t seen before!