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Florida Farm to Table: An Evening of Fresh Flavor
On April 16, guests of the “Florida Farmer Showcase… With Wine” dinner were treated to a bevy of local produce and protein, hosted at The Salted Goat restaurant, located at 2 S. Charles Richard Beall Blvd. in DeBary.
The seven-course meal, presented by The Salted Goat’s owner Kat Aymar and executive chef Stopher Condry, was paired perfectly with a wine selection curated by wine consultant and sommelier Carol López-Bethel, of Swirl Wine Consulting.
Aymar, Condry and López-Bethel worked together to craft a flavorful pairing that illustrated the fresh and bountiful options that are available to those who are looking to support local farmers, restaurants, and locally owned businesses located in Volusia County and surrounding areas.
Read the complete article at West Volusia Beacon.
‘You’re at the mercy of that freeze,’ For some Florida farmers, cold, wet weather not ideal
OVIEDO, Fla. – Farmers will be keeping a close eye on their crops as cold weather makes its way to Central Florida this week.
Rex Clonts, the owner of BigDaddy’s Organic Farm in Oviedo, says it should be prime strawberry season but the cold and wet weather we’ve already seen this year has not been ideal.
“If you’re outdoors, you’re at the mercy of that freeze,” said Clonts.
Clonts’ family has been growing produce in the Black Hammock area since the 1920′s. His grandfather nicknamed “Big Daddy” is the namesake for his business that now sells u-pick produce on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
Celebrating celery’s history in Seminole County, this organic farm’s roots run deep
There’s no space in BigDaddy because to Charles Roy Clonts’ grandchildren, his nickname was one word, mashed together and pronounced thusly – as southern a way of doing things as the man himself.
“BigDaddy grew up on a hardscrabble farm in north Georgia with a bunch of brothers – and he knew he had to do something other than farm,” Rex Clonts, one of those grandchildren, tells me. So BigDaddy became a banker.
But when he arrived in Oviedo in 1923, the man who’d learned to manage money saw exactly where it was in this burgeoning Central Florida town. And he decided to get back into farming.