Deaf Awareness Month: pi00a and Bumbleberry Farms

September is National Deaf Awareness Month, an observance with roots in the World Federation of the Deaf's first congress in Rome in 1951. Two of the makers in our Farm Stand have their own place in that story.

All About Skyr

Skyr looks like yogurt, tastes something like yogurt, and sits right there in the yogurt aisle. But it isn't yogurt, technically. The distinction comes down to a small amount of rennet (the same enzyme used to turn milk into cheese) added alongside the culture that gives skyr its familiar tang. That one ingredient is enough to classify it, in the eyes of dairy science anyway, as a cheese. But don't rush to put it on your cheese board just yet.

Brain Boosters

Nobody has ever fixed the way they eat over a single weekend. The foods that do the most for how you think and feel work on a slow schedule, across weeks, and they only work if you keep eating them. A few small changes, repeated until they stop feeling like changes, are what hold.