This is the fourth of a special four-part series about how COVID-19 is transforming local food systems—farmers markets, local farms, community and backyard gardens, and food equity. ____________________ As we head into six-plus months of stay-at-home orders, many of...
This is the second of a special three-part series by Martha Wagner and Mi Ae Lipe about how COVID-19 is transforming local food systems—farmers markets, local farms, and community and backyard gardens. ____________________ As we all know, no part of our lives has been...
CSA members might find something puzzling at their harvest pick-ups these days. It very well could be an unfamiliar type of produce...that Sputnik-looking kohlrabi thing? A handful of something called tatsoi? An enormous, all-at-once amount of basil? Rather than...
Welcome to Spring! After a long, hard winter, it's truly a relief to feel warmth seeping into earth's bones and emerging as life irrepressible once again. With spring's resurrection of a lush growing season ahead for most of the country, I'm happy to announce renewed...
It's that time again—when spring is just around the corner and with it the luscious, long-awaited promise of fresh greens, succulent veggies, and aromatic herbs to break the long winter months of root vegetables and squash. And right now community-supported...
It was Hippocrates who long ago declared, “Let medicine be thy food and let food be thy medicine.” Today, the idea of food as medicine is the foundation of health initiatives being developed collaboratively by hospitals, health organizations, local health departments,...
The following guest blog is from Helsing Junction Farm (HJF), a 1,000-plus-member CSA farm in Rochester, Washington, featured in Bounty From the Box: The CSA Farm Cookbook. Farm co-manager Dan Finklestein, in his second season at HJF, wrote this piece. We loved seeing...
Put 40-plus farmers in a cavernous old industrial building along with displays of their farm goods—from honey and salami to fresh produce—then add a few chickens and piglets, local chefs doing cooking demos, and a cookbook swap, and what do you get? The second annual...