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Online Resource: Regional Best

RegionalBest.com is a new e-commerce site offering hundreds of foods that are raised, caught or produced by local artisans. Foods appealing to me right now are Maryland blue crab cakes, Idaho grass-fe...

Summerset Farm: Santa Ynez Valley, CA

Lured by the sight of thousands of colorful winter gourds, we made an impromptu stop while driving through the Santa Ynez Valley last weekend. We found ourselves at Summerset Farm, a produce stand loc...

Good Food with Evan Kleiman: Is Vertical Farming in Our Future?

Imagine a situation where 100% of the fresh fruits and vegetables for an entire urban population are grown inside climate-controlled towers right in the city itself. Dr. Dickson Despommier was on this...

Source for Stone-Ground Grits: Anson Mills

And since we're writing about grits, we thought we'd give you a good mail-order source for an exceptional, stone-ground variety. Anson Mills in Columbia, SC, grows organic, heirloom corn and sells ...

Farm to Folk: A CSA Connection In Ames, Iowa

For those of you living in or around Ames, Iowa and looking for a CSA, here's one option: Farm to Folk....

Local Farm Profile: Valley View Farm - The Creamery Tour
Boston

Goats and New England barns are well and good, but let's get to the good stuff: cheese! Click through to see how Valley View Farm turns their goats' milk into delicious farmstead cheese......

Meeting vs. Eating: How Do You Feel About Meeting Farm Animals?

On the drive home from our tour of Green Meadows Farm last week, an interesting topic of conversation was raised: How do you feel about meeting that animals that will later become food you eat?...

Local Farm Profile: Valley View Farm--Part I!
Boston

A few weeks ago, a friend invited us on a farm tour being sponsored by Slow Food Boston. The destination was Valley View Farm, a goat farm and producer of farmstead cheese in Topsfield, Massachusetts....

Drake's Bay Family Farms Oysters

This month at The Kitchn, we're talking about food in literature, and this quote from Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast made me think of a local San Francisco favorite: Drake's Bay Family Farms oy...

Meadow Stone Farm: Brooklyn, CT

We love goats. We love their quirky personalities almost as much as we love their milk. Meadow Stone Farm is a small family farms nestled in the woods of northeast Connecticut. The Noiseux mother/f...