It’s the mantra of the moment. With new grocery stores designed to sell expired food and companies created to turn ugly produce into canned goods, using surplus harvest for something new makes sense.
That’s the simple idea behind Stoneybrook Farm Market’s Green Bar ($3). “We didn’t want to waste organic greens,” says Nathan Soler, a member of the Twelve Tribes community that, Soler explains, lives “like the first believers in the Bible” and runs the farm and storefront.
Leftover kale, chard and spinach are put through a multistep process (dried, blended, mixed with peanut butter, oats, honey, carob chips, maple syrup, rice crisps and yerba mate, blended again and baked) for a bar “not firm, but not crumbly either,” says Soler.
And most importantly, says Soler, it provides the health benefits of all those greens. // 37091 Charles Town Pike, Hillsboro; 540-668-9067
( April 2016 )
