Renee Catacalos, publisher of Edible Chesapeake magazine, yesterday e-mailed all her fans to deliver some devastating news: after just four years of delivering the best coverage of local, sustainable food in our area, she is closing the magazine. Edible Chesapeake is part of a family of publications delivering similar content about the good food movement […]
Tags:local food·magazines
Once again my pollanista cohorts are in a twist over the ravings of James McWilliams, the writer who argues that there’s something sinister about the local food movement. In a three part series of posts at the New York Times, McWilliams lately has been ranting that farmers markets are not only “elitist,” but actually sow […]
Tags:farmer's markets·local farming·local food·Michael Pollan·Wendell Berry
For the last several months I’ve been meeting with the adviory board of a new D.C. Farm to School Network. Like the programs in more than 2,000 other schools around the country, the idea is to find ways to introduce healthful produce from area farms into the District of Columbia Schools. The concept dates to the […]
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