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With 9% unemployment being the new normal, starting a small food business from home has helped lots of folks make ends meet.  Of course, when the words “food business” and “homemade” occupy the same sentence, regulators traditionally get worried. So worried, in fact, that they’ve outlawed the sale of homemade food products in many states.  Of course, that hasn’t stopped creative folks across the country from skirting those laws in recent years. “Clubs” in San Francisco and “swaps” in Brooklyn have helped foodies get the homemade fare they’ve been searching for. But some small producers are taking the fight through legislative channels, helping to create “so-called cottage food...

It's May and it's Vermont. The dribs and drabs of snow left over from Mother's Day have finally disappeared from everywhere but the highest elevations. It's time to get something, anything in the ground. It's still too early for beans and tomato starts will have to wait until Memorial Day. But there's one plant whose seeds almost blast off even in cold soil, and that plant is arugula. The English call it rocket, a perfect name for this cool-season salad green that grows at a rate approaching lightspeed. The plants are often ready to harvest as early as four weeks after seeding. If left to set flowers and seedpods, arugula will easily self-seed. It's unstoppable. Arugula may look like baby...

from the FarmPlate Kitchen King Arthur Flour’s white whole-wheat flour is perfect here, making lovely golden-colored flatbreads. You can also use half all-purpose and half whole-wheat flour. 2½ cups King Arthur white whole-wheat flour, plus more for kneading and rolling 1 teaspoon active dry yeast ½ teaspoon baking powder ½ teaspoon salt 1 egg, lightly beaten 2 tablespoons plain yogurt or milk ¾ cup warm water 1 teaspoon honey 2 tablespoons melted butter Combine the flour, yeast, baking powder and salt in the bowl of a food processor. Pulse briefly to mix. Add the egg and yogurt or milk and pulse 3 or 4 times. Combine the water and honey. Turn the processor on and slowly add the honey...