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Last March, while I was in Chicago for a food conference, I was also criss-crossing the city—from Devon Avenue in the north to Pilsen in...

This story originally appeared July 1st in Oregon Business Magazine Demand for organic food continues to soar: Last year, sales of...

Ashley Rodgers, the farm manager at Serenbe This story ran on CivilEats.org on July 9th In many ways, Shari Sirkin and Bryan Dickerson,...

This story was published in the July 2014 issue of Travel + Leisure.   Download TravelplusLeisure7_10_2014 When  Iron Springs Resort...

This Field Note appears in the Design section of Modern Farmer (pg. 64): Anna Cohen's lipstick red Charlie Dress, made of Oregon wool...

This story originally appeared in Oregon Business Magazine In case you hadn’t noticed, our food cart scene here in Portland is booming....

My latest story for Civil Eats' Good Food Vanguard series: Amy Kleinman had never had a job with lasting appeal. Most recently,...

This story originally appeared on Civil Eats, kicking off their new series the Good Food Vanguard . Read more of my Civil Eats stories...

This story originally appeared in Oregon Business Magazine When the historic Lostine Tavern closed in January 2013, residents of the...

This story originally appeared in Oregon Business Magazine It may be obvious, but most farmers don’t make a lot of money. According to...

This story first appeared on CivilEats last Friday. That very day, Michelle Obama announced a new phase of Let's Move! that will...

I moderated "Turning Food Deserts into Oases of Good Food" at the 2014 IACP conference. Whether you call them food deserts or food...

When Chuck Eggert founded Pacific Foods in 1987, the health food movement was still an off shoot of the ‘70s hippie culture. Today — with...

I moderated a panel called "Plate and Principles" for the 14th annual Farmer-Chef Connection . On the panel were (from left to right): Chapel Hill, North Carolina chef Andrea Reusing, and Portland chefs Aaron Dionne, Greg Higgins, Jason French, and Joshua McFadden.  That's me on the right!

The best treatment for PTSD may not be pharmaceuticals or one-on-one therapy, but a revolutionary non-drug approach developed by Dr. James Gordon at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine .  In this feature in the February issue of Spirit Magazine ( now called Southwest: the Magazine), I report on how military health care providers—and the veterans they treat—are embracing unorthodox therapies like meditation, biofeedback, and guided imagery because they work. During the ten we

This is my second post as food & ag blogger at Oregon Business Magazine . Recently, I joined a friend for appetizers at Ava Gene’s,...

This is the first in a series of columns for Oregon Business Magazine , where I'm now the food and agriculture blogger. (It was...

Biwa owners Gabe Rosen and Kina Voelz discuss their new "Health & Wellness" surcharge Last week, Civil Eats published my story on...