locavore
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When I buy local, does it hurt farmers in other countries?
You want to know what you *can* do to make a more climate-friendly and economically equitable food system.
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Community-supported agriculture: Grist readers stand up for local food
Want to know why the local food movement matters to so many? Take a look at these articulate responses to our recent interview with the authors of the "Locavore's Dilemma."
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New documentary is like ‘The Real World’ for farming
Filmmaker Hailey Wist’s documentary The Garden Summer is the true story of five strangers picked to live on a farm, work together, and have their lives taped. Wist recruited four other good-looking 20-something suburbanites to spend the summer on an Arkansas farm, getting all their food (except booze, coffee, and cooking oil) either from their […]
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Surviving winter eating local: Grist readers’ advice
We asked our locavore readers to tell us how they make it through the dark days of winter. If the answers we got are any indication, they're doing just fine!
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Getting homemade foods off the black market
With a proposed "cottage food law," California joins a handful of states that have already made it legal to sell artisan foods made in people's homes.
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Will organic free trade really do a world of good?
We're all for trading organic food with the European Union, but let's not forget about food miles.
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Africa’s first green, locavore, gluten-free beer
In Mozambique, home brewing is big -- not because the country is full of mustachioed, fixie-riding expats from Portlandia, but just because it's less expensive. So when brewing giant SABMiller wanted to figure out how to sell beer to people who are already making their own, they had to do it on the cheap.