With his remarks last week about arsenic in apple juice, Dr. Mehmet Oz sparked a firestorm about food safety. Another compelling example of how it’s critical to trust your food source, to know your farmers and how they grow the food you and your family eat. Where do your apples — in your hand or in apple juice, cider or sauce — come from? Who grew them? How are they handled and processed? How do they get to your local market? How long does it take?

Over the coming weeks, as Five Acre Farms introduces local apple juice, apple cider and apple sauce in the supermarket, check this space for more on apples — and your favorite foods made with them.

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As reported in this recent news story, there have been some reports of business dropping off at farmers markets in certain areas. All the more reason not only to support your local farmers at the farmers market but also to ask for local food at your supermarket. Keep farmers farming.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/us/21farmers.html?_r=1&ref=katiezezima

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Autumn apple season is in full swing in the Northeast, which means it’s time to sample the many varieties of apples grown locally, as well as treats like fresh apple cider, apple juice, apple sauce and apple pie, which Five Acre Farms will be bringing to the supermarket in the coming weeks. Blueberries, grapes, pears, plums, raspberries, blackberries and cantaloupe, in season this month in the New York area, also make good choices.

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We’ve landed on Long Island. Our milk is now on the shelf in the Fairway market in Plainview. Find store information here:

http://www.fairwaymarket.com/pages.php?pageid=114

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You can now pick up your Five Acre Farms milk at the Fairway markets at 74th and Broadway and 12th Avenue and 130th Street. Find more store information here:

 http://www.fairwaymarket.com/pages.php?pageid=117

http://www.fairwaymarket.com/pages.php?pageid=111

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Oxford Hills: Farmers markets in Norway on Thursday and South Paris on Saturday.

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Now’s the time to pick up some fresh hard-neck garlic at the farmers market. Here, a true garlic guru on the virtues of fresh, local produce enjoyed at just the right time of year.

http://culture.wnyc.org/articles/last-chance-foods/2011/aug/19/last-chance-foods-great-garlic-raw/

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A good Ag Fair in Litchfield County, CT.

http://www.goshenfair.org/

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Rebound from Irene by sampling fresh, local food and meeting your farmers at the New York State Fair, going on now through Labor Day in Syracuse. As Irene recedes, water not wind will have proved most damaging.

http://www.nysfair.org/

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