FRESH is coming to the big screen in NYC!
After thousands of community screenings and grassroots word-of-mouth, you can finally watch FRESH at the theater. We’re opening at the Quad Cinema Friday April 9th. In …

A farmer’s experience highlights a growing problem for small farmers across the nation: too few slaughterhouses to meet the growing demand for locally raised meat.

My penchant for warm weather is so strong that it must be infectious. Turns out the trait is running in my small family of tomato seedlings that sprouted from my windowsill as their stems stretch toward the sun.

At the beginning of the year, I decided to explore the sustainable food scene in other cities. After going to San Francisco last fall, my curiosity was piqued about how people around the country are living locally. For my first adventure, I picked a place close to home: Dallas.

This week’s Friday Link Roundup includes a story on the innovative way Baltimore is getting groceries to residents in ‘food deserts’ via libraries; an interesting article by a University of California student arguing against locavorism …

On the one hand, being one of the few vendors with an abundance of early produce benefits me—I don’t worry about going home with leftovers from the first month or so of market sales. On the other hand, it’s always the person who actually has the early produce and sells out quickly that gets blamed for not having enough.

Louise Ross offers a practical, easy tool to use when grocery shopping to help you make healthful, whole food choices on a budget.

Severine von Tscharner Fleming is the director of the forthcoming film The Greenhorns and founder of the crucial new young farmer organization of the same name. Here’s her no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners perspective on the young farmers movement. Make no mistake, this woman is dedicated and smart—and she’s recruiting.

Today I weeded my very overgrown flower garden, and learned (the hard way) that stinging nettles are the most common weed there. But despite the fire in my hands that lasted for several minutes, I was so glad at the discovery! Here’s why…

It’s the end of March. Crocuses, magnolias, and the first daffodils are blooming. Looks like spring, but on the local foods front here in the Northeast it would be the bleakest culinary season if I didn’t forage for wild edible plants and mushrooms.