Local Food News

This is the final in a series of columns related to various aspects of the local food movement.

Think you can eat something from Maryland every day for a week? Governor Martin O'Malley is hosting a cookout on the lawn at the Governor's Mansion to promote a state campaign to eat locally produced produce, ...

Practically a vegetarian since her teen years, East Nashville gallery owner Meg MacFadyen can count on one hand the times she's eaten pork.

Vermont is at the cutting edge of the 'eat local' trend. The 50 farmers' markets that take place across the state during the summer cut costs and conserve energy.

Q&A Food Econ 101 Paul Roberts, the author of The End of Food , dishes on the food system You might expect the author of The End of Oil and The End of Food to be gloomy and dry, but at a recent appearance in ...

Hailing from the Ozarks, Addie Broyles expanded her cooking skills on the West Coast and Spain before settling in Austin, mainly for the aguas frescas at the taco stand down the street from her house where she, ...

Could growing fresh vegetables help save crumbling inner cities around the world and tackle hunger? ___ That is the ambitious aim of a charity called Urban Farming, which has its headquarters in Detroit, the ...

NEWARK -- Mike Siegrist emerged from his Siegrist Farm Market truck Friday and watched as a few customers browsed his table of fresh fruit and vegetables at the Newark Farmers Market.

Icelander said: ""People who live closer to work drive less, that's a no brainier.

Robyn Taylor-Drake didn't expect much from the cherry tree in her Nashville, Tenn., backyard.

While the Group of Eight wealthy nations get together in Japan to discuss the food crisis, an African anti-globalist meeting stressed Africans could help themselves by eating local products.

Listen up, locavores ! This month's issue of Food & Wine taps our very own Allen Susser, of Chef Allen's in Aventura, for recommendations about where to buy great local foodstuffs in South Florida.

ASHEVILLE Contrary to popular belief, mayonnaise alone is not usually the culprit when it comes to getting sick at a picnic.

They're not promoting it online or even on the cover of their magazine, but the folks at Food & Wine have released an August issue devoted to all things eco.

Consumers struggling with high grocery prices and worried about salmonella have more reasons to choose locally grown foods this summer, vendors say.

Costs: Soups and salads $5-$8; appetizers 75 cents-$3; platters $12-$14; sandwiches $6-$11; sides $2 each, four for $7; brunch $8-$14; a la carte brunch $2-$3; sweets $1-$6. Vegetarian Options: Yes.

It's been decades since that famous forager Euell Gibbons reached through the White House fence and picked four edible weeds out of the president's garden.

With a few thousand farms and 1/500th of the nation's population, Vermont is 'just totally irrelevant' by any statistical measure when it comes to agri-business and the food industry, said Eric Schlosser, an ...

If you're wondering what all the fuss is about buying local food, you'll find the answers at the Hunterdon Land Trust's film series and special farmers' market activities this month.

Slow food: organic, grown locally. The growing movement is related not just to the price of gas, but suburbs going in decline, saving the earth, and much more.