Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
In a county named for its former abundance of orange groves, chef and farmer Adam Navidi is on the forefront of redefining local food and agriculture through his restaurant, farm, and catering business.
We may not always think about it, but the origin of trade is found in ecology and not in economy.
How did the small Appalachian city of Corbin, Kentucky reduce its downtown vacancy rate from 40% to nearly 0% in only three years?
Today’s farmer is facing a transformation. But it is not only the farmer. Equally important is a transformation of the appetite of the American consumer.
Last week, Yardfarmers Project Director Erik Assadourian talked with Arnie Arneson on her show on WNHN 94.7 FM in Concord, NH about yardfarming and the latest news on the show.
Imagine a world without strawberries, apples, chocolate, coffee, squash, or almonds.
I supervised a university-level food studies class last week that, partly by design and partly by sheer accident, gave me some new insights into the challenges of city-oriented food security policy.
Before we casually shipped warehouses of vegetables across oceans and refrigerated them, spring was traditionally a lean time in Western temperate climates, a time when our ancestors had been living on things like salted meat or grains for months.
Until relatively recently in human history, making cheese was an intensely local, home or village craft passed down and adapted generation to generation.
Mike Lott is not your run of the mill farmer. Not long ago, before making the decision to embark on a career in farming and launch his aquaponic and urban agriculture venture, Urban Food Works in Murietta, CA, Lott was a professional golfer.
The global pattern of nation states’ persistent neglect of the world’s most pressing issues is the unstated background to today’s precedent-breaking discussions about cities and food.
There are many community-based programmes as well that make it possible for a variety of low-income populations to benefit by buying from farmers’ markets in the US, giving farmers a boost too.
