Agricultural Mythologies Since April I’ve spent about 3.5 weeks in California, the land of culinary contradictions. There is some amazing food in California, it’s true – and you better believe that I was eating ev...
To Market Have you ever felt like there were so many great farmer’s markets in the Ypsi Arbor area that you wish you could get to them all? Have you noticed the exponential increase in Washtenaw County farmer’s markets in t...
It’s totally surreal that my personal adventures in local food began five years ago with a chance interview with Morgan Spurlock (of Supersize Me! fame) about healthy, organic food in Santa Barbara schools. Since then, my...
One of the best parts about living in Ypsilanti, aside from the widespread support for urban agriculture, alternative energy and the overall “greening” of Ypsi, is how easily people can get involved and have an impact. That...
The First Seed We are so close to spring that you can almost taste it. Although it still can be cold, the sun these days stays around for longer, there are more signs of life outdoors and it’s usually around this time of year...
(Re) Imagining a Fair Food System Do you like to eat locally grown and produced food? Are you a stakeholder in the regional food system of Washtenaw County and Southeast Michigan? Then you’re in luck, as the Homegrown Local F...
A New Year’s Food Revolution As a farmer, one of the biggest points of pride is to be able to feed your family and friends with the food that you grow, and for me the holidays is the most important time to do so. Too ofte...
Two Years in Local Food! It’s totally incredible that this installment of local food adventures marks two years! And an incredible two years at that – from small producers’ struggles with the constraints of food s...
Season of Abundance Ever since I became an urban farmer four years ago and then started growing massive amounts of heirloom peppers and tomatoes, I’ve noticed that around this time of year I usually find it hard to believe th...
In it to win it By now you’ve probably heard about growing food in the city and maybe even about raising urban chickens and bees, but what about tilapia, crawfish, meat chickens and goats? How about worm composting (vermicult...