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Farm Fresh #6244 (54,178 square feet)
30 Town Center Way, Hampton Towne Centre, Hampton, VA
Opened February 24th, 2001; originally Winn-Dixie Marketplace (May 14th, 1998-June 20th, 2000)
Farm Fresh #6274 (42,031 square feet)
2320 E Main Street, Richmond, VA
Opened in January 2003 as The Market at Tobacco Row, switched to Farm Fresh in fall 2011
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Designed and folded by Marcela Brina
Diagrams available in the book "Contemporary Origami Decorations: Beautiful Modular Origami Projects to Enlighten your Life"
Authored by Marcela Brina
Fresh Cut Rose...
Macro Mondays [August 20: Fresh]
After submitting to an annual mammogram, I was given the opportunity to select a fresh cut rose. Nice!
Fresh Mozzarella
Sliced fresh mozzarella, roma tomato, romaine & basil
drizzled w/ our signature balsamic vinaigrette
Hartlepool College held its annual Fresh Event early in September 2016 with many local exhibitors, new and returning students were able to gain careers, progression and safety advice, meet staff and sign up for enrichment, talk to top employers and grab a load of freebies including food, soft drinks and tons of special discounts.
#Fresh2016
From the menu: "Fresh spring rolls are an excellent and very nutritious appetizer. Minced chicken and shrimp rolled into rice paper with an arae of fresh vegetables and steamed flat rice noodles. These are served (3) three to an order with the choice of a sweet chili or a sweet peanut sauce. Excellent with tofu in substitution for the meat."
We did not get 2 sauces for this, we got one sweet chili sauce with crushed peanuts in it.
Farm Fresh #6274 (42,031 square feet)
2320 E Main Street, Richmond, VA
Opened in January 2003 as The Market at Tobacco Row, switched to Farm Fresh in fall 2011
Grape tomatoes from a roadside market in Brighton. I knew there'd be some stuff in season: I bought tomatoes, green beans, apricots and carrots. They also had farm fresh eggs! So I got some. :) Next week, they said they'll have corn! and they come to the Farmer's Market here in Aurora! (The Pepsi can is in the pic for scale)
Farm Fresh #6254 (56,610 square feet)
353 Chatham Drive, Newport Marketplace, Newport News, VA
Opened July 24th, 1999, renovated in the early 2010s
A steaming cup of fresh brewed coffee made using a Chemex Coffeemaker (background).
Read more about Art of Making Coffee over at my blog.
International Trade Minster Teresa Wat checks out fresh BC oysters at Mac’s Oysters in Fanny bay. Minister Wat attended a Seafood Exports Roundtable in Comox to talk about what the Province is doing to promote the sector to BC’s key export markets, and to hear from the seafood industry about ways to increase their market share even more.
Farm Fresh #6263 (63,000 square feet)
455 Merrimac Trail, Shoppes at Merrimac Center, Williamsburg, VA
This location opened on December 13th, 1981 and was renovated in fall 2004. It closed on October 7th, 2017.
My 4 year old granddaughter Audrey has been looking forward to her first concert for weeks. While Breanne, Audrey and I went to see The Fresh Beat Band in Redding, Greg babysat Daphne. The joy we felt watching Audrey singing and clapping to her favorite band made us so happy.
Farm Fresh #6263 (63,000 square feet)
455 Merrimac Trail, Shoppes at Merrimac Center, Williamsburg, VA
This location opened on December 13th, 1981 and was renovated in fall 2004. It closed on October 7th, 2017.
Jersey Shore Fightin’ Texas Aggie Ring was very upset when we got home this afternoon. In fact Aggie Ring cried out, “I’m nothing more than a common criminal now. I’m going to go to jail. Do you have any idea what they’d do to a handsome shiny Aggie Ring in prison? Do you? It won’t be good for me.”
You see, in New Jersey, it’s illegal to buy or sell raw unpasteurized dairy products. If you’ve ever used raw milk or cream to make butter, cream cheese, crème fraîche, cheese, etc… then you know that the pasteurized stuff you buy at the grocery store isn’t really much good other than for putting it in your coffee or tea.
Texas Aggie Ring laughed his trademark “Evil Aggie Ring Laugh™” this morning and told me, “Lets take a drive over to Pennsylvania. I want to pick up a couple of things.
In PA, where it IS legal to buy and sell raw dairy, Aggie Ring picked up a half gallon of raw milk and raw heavy cream. Aggie Ring had me put the two bottles in the trunk. He didn’t want to be stopped at the New Jersey border and caught bringing raw dairy into the state. “They’re not taking this Aggie Ring alive!” he cried as we reentered the Garden State. “Even if you go down with me.”
Although the Aggie Ring was sweating the whole time we were driving back, we made it home without incident. As soon as we walked through the door Aggie Ring said to me, “I want to make fresh raw butter, Now!”
Now I’m sure everyone reading this has made fresh butter and churned their own homemade ice cream. Aggie Ring has certainly done it plenty of times and he’s not even a Dairy Science Aggie Ring. These are just plain life skills that everyone needs to know.
Aggie Ring didn’t want to clean all his kitchen tools twice, so he decided to use the entire half gallon of raw heavy cream. He did two batches because his food processor can’t handle the entire half gallon at one time.
It took about 4 or 5 minutes for each batch of raw heavy cream on low for the yellow butter to form and leave the liquid liquid buttermilk. (Which, by the way is totally different than what comes in a box. We don’t even like buttermilk but we can drink or put the fresh buttermilk on our cereal all day.)
The butter solids were put through a strainer to drain and to prevent them from falling into the fresh buttermilk.
Aggie Ring put both batches of the butter into a large bowl and kneeded it time after time to force the remaining white buttermilk out of the solids. The more of the proteins from the buttermilk you can remove from the butter, the longer it will stay fresh. Once liquid had stopped coming out of the butter, Aggie Ring filled the bowl up with ice water and continued to kneed it to wash it. He did this about four times until the ice water stayed clear. He added a dash or two of sea salt and worked that in
We rolled the butter into a large “butter ball” and pressed it down into a sealable container so it can ripen in the refrigerator for a day or two. Afterwards, Aggie Ring plans to make garlic butter and perhaps cinnamon sugar butter with some of it. We will clarify any that remains so we can have clarified butter for up to 6 months.
The half-gallon of raw heavy cream made a quart of buttermilk and a little over a pound and a half of fresh raw butter.
At the end of the buttery experience, Aggie Ring was covered in a lot of fresh butter and called out, “Who want’s to lick the butter off me?” Then he let out his trademark “Evil Aggie Ring Laugh™” and said, “Just kidding. No one can lick this Aggie Ring!”
#AggieRing
Farm Fresh #6262 (29,293 square feet)
460 Wythe Creek Road, Poquoson Shopping Center, Poquoson, VA
Originally operated November 1980-January 25th, 1998, reopened August 30th, 1998, renovated in summer 2016, closed June 26th, 2018, reopened April 1st, 2022
The Poquoson Farm Fresh has like the most complicated operating history ever: they originally operated for 17 years uninterrupted, but during the company's buyout by Richfood Holdings in 1997 the store (as well as a few other area locations) was given the boot for unknown reasons. They were gone "permanently" by January 1998- then about two weeks later a reopening was announced, go figure! So they spent about another 20 years in business. As the years went on the company was on a slippery slope and ended up pulling the plug in spring 2018, selling off select locations to Kroger, Harris Teeter, and Food Lion and shuttering whatever was left. The Poquoson location wasn't purchased by anyone so was vacated after liquidation. For almost four years the building just sat there untouched with no future plans for the space, but in November it was announced that independent operators Raphael Strumlauf and Mark Green, who already purchased and operate the Richmond Farm Fresh, would be reopening the store. A few months passed by and on Friday the store finally rereopened to much fanfare from the Poquoson community, whose only other choice of grocer was Food Lion. Naturally, this caught my attention and I had to come see the place for myself once again!
After the store's 2018 closure basically everything was left in place as-is, with no fixtures/signage being removed or sold off. This meant that the new owners had to do minimal work to the salesfloor, and it indeed does look almost the exact same as before. In fact, I only noticed three major operational changes: they opted not to keep the pharmacy and converted its' space to an expanded wine section, they added a Blanchard's Coffee Roasting Company stand in a chunk of the old floral space, and two checkout lanes were removed in favor of a self-checkout area. These all seem like reasonable and understandable decisions to me, and aside from that the other departments have been brought back to life as they were prior to 2018 . I wish this store the best since operating independently can be a challenge, but I have total faith in the Poquoson citizens to support this store for years to come!