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Seventeen years ago, on a whim, Brian and Catherine Faris bought a farmhouse in a tiny, stone-walled town in the Italian region of...

Most farmers would rather be knee-deep in dirt than rustling up business with school food buyers and James Beard-award-winning chefs....

Students at West Tisbury School on Martha's Vineyard get fish chowder and fresh veggies (Photo by Elizabeth Cecil) School cafeteria food...

Cultivating Profit. Oyster farming is a tricky business — you can’t wantonly meet demand or you won’t have any oysters left to sell. And...

In the October issue of O: the Oprah Magazine , I write about food justice rapper DJ CaveM , who wants to make OGs—organic gardeners—out...

Seed-saving: Chefs like Sarah Schafer do it, too   (photo by Kirk Jones) Sarah Schafer , the chef at Portland, OR's Irving Street...

The cows at Straus Family Creamery, grazing on Tomales Bay, California My love of milk has only increased since I was an infant, which...

I have a story in the May issue of Afar magazine about the beautiful Willamette Valley . Though I didn't get a whole lot of space to wax...

Last Friday, April 26th, Bon Appetit published my post, which they entitled "Yes, You Can Feed a Family of 3 All Organic On a Food...

My colleague Devavani Chatterjea invited me to speak at Macalaster's Community and Global Health Seminar. My lecture, on "Good Food for All: Why Farm-Fresh, Organic Food is anything but Elitist," came out of research I'd been doing for a potential book project on the topic of food justice.

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Purple kale from the PSU farmers' market, ready to be blanched We've both rallied for the final week of our challenge —planning meals...

In “ Salt Sugar Fat, " investigative reporter Michael Moss shows how executives and food scientists at Coca-Cola, Kraft, Frito-Lay and...

Radishes in several hues: $2 a bunch or 3 bunches for $5 After my foray to the PSU farmers' market yesterday, we have $66.91 remaining...

The organic food stamp challenge has been, well, a challenge lately. It's not that we've run out of money—yet. But because we went to...

I'm in the "power issue!" Well, at least my article is. In the March issue of Vogue , I investigate the claims that Dr. William Davis makes in his best-selling book Wheat Belly . Is wheat really a "perfect chronic poison?" Does whole wheat bread spike your blood sugar more than table sugar? And why does it seem that everyone has either celiac disease or gluten intolerance?  Davis's patients shed pounds—and improve their health—on his radical wheat-free diet. But should this c

This week I've made a concerted effort to plan meals around the veggies I got at the farmers' market on Saturday. On Monday, I made a...

Yesterday morning, I took the bus downtown to shop at the winter farmers' market . Because we're sticking to a food stamp budget, I...

Looking back at the first week-and-a-half of our organic food stamp challenge , three meals stand out in my mind. The first, the most...

Every year, my partner Don and I give up something for Lent, even though neither of us is particularly religious. Two years ago, it was...