local food
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The open-source movement to hack your arugula
Open-source farming could challenge Big Ag and take crop production to new heights.
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This activist is bringing Kentucky’s hot food scene to a tray near you
Sarah Fritschner is leading a farm-to-cafeteria movement in Kentucky.
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Show your farmers market some love with veggie temporary tattoos
This Kickstarter wants you to celebrate seasonal produce and sustainable farming with sweet temporary tats. Bring on the veggie biker gangs!
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Pizza-flavored beer: Two great tastes that probably do not go great together
Locally produced pizza-flavored beer sounds less than reasonable. It sounds, actually, kind of gross.
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Peanut butter was once a locally produced health food
Like avocados or chia seeds, peanut butter was once a trendy health food.
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This mobile restaurant brings the table to the farm
This mobile-home-as-restaurant might have won the war for most local food ever. Instead of bringing the farm to the table, the Buijtenkitchen is bringing the table to the farm. It’s basically just a hut with a wood-burning stove inside, but it’s small enough that it can be loaded onto a trailer and moved without much […]
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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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Let’s put an end to ‘dietary tribalism’
Vegan, paleo, raw, locavore -- who can say what's best? One writer says concerned eaters should put down their weapons and work to change the food system together.
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New film looks at eating and growing local food in Alabama
The filmmaker behind Eating Alabama talks about industrial chicken farming, rural food access, and what it will take to create a local food economy in the deep South.