Have you heard about the new Dixboro Farmers' Market on Ann Arbor's northeast side, and the Cobblestone Farmers' Market on the south side? With these two new markets starting up soon, Ann Arbor is getting close to having a farmers' market option every day of the week.
April has been kind this year, the lilacs are blooming early and it's been an encouraging whirlwind month in food, from beginning to end. With events like the HomeGrown Local Food Summit (along with tours and film screening) at the beginning of the month, the Slow Food National Congress in ...
Last week I had the privilege to be among 150 other chapter leaders at the Slow Food USA National Congress held in Louisville, Ky. It's always inspiring to hear about the incredible food community, farm, and school garden work that more than 225 Slow Food chapters are engaged in around ...
If you've read the "Omnivore's Dilemma," or seen American Meat or Food Inc., you've already met Joel Salatin, the "Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic-Farmer," on the page or on the screen. His piercing truths about the state of American agriculture are told with the outrageous humor, wit and vinegar of a modern day Mark ...
The last frost date is still more than a month away, which I calculate by the timing of Project Grow Gardens' most amazing plant sale of heirloom tomatoes, basil, and peppers on Saturday, May 12 and Sunday, May 19 in front the People's Food Co-op. For gung-ho gardeners, they're even ...
I've been thinking about food culture recently. I'm reading two books with food culture as the central theme, and they couldn't be more different. Carolyn Steel's "Hungry City" is about the development of the modern city and the symbiotic relationship of the built environment with food, culture and agriculture. By ...
On Monday, April 2, for the fourth year in a row, a grassroots group of volunteer organizers (including me) will bring together about 300 people to talk food systems all day long at Washtenaw County's HomeGrown Local Food Summit. This event, taking place at Washtenaw Community College, is the strategic, ...
For the past several years, farmer Kris Hirth has been teetering on the brink between the success and failure of Old Pine Farm, her Manchester-based sustainable meat CSA farm. Determined to raise her animals humanely, on pasture, and with only non-GMO and organic feed, she's chosen a hard row to ...
Do you know about TED? It's a phenomena that started in 1984 as an invitation-only conference for the world's best thinkers in Technology, Entertainment, and Design. Its mission: spreading ideas. TED sponsors talks like the ingenious and funny Hans Rosling's "Let my dataset change your mindset" or Daniel Pink's important ...
Maybe it was the news about Michigan snagging a spot on the Top 10 list of states with the most winter farmers' markets that pushed it over the edge, but I'm noticing an energy around food issues that I haven't seen before. There are so many things happening in this ...
Has "food hub" entered your personal lexicon yet? If not, I'm guessing that it may in the next year or so. The USDA defines a food hub as "a centrally located facility with a business management structure facilitating the aggregation, storage, processing distribution, and/or marketing of locally/regionally produced food product," ...
It's almost Christmas, but Chef Dan Vernia at the Ravens Club on Main Street in Ann Arbor is still serving Thanksgiving dinners, once a week, on a large plate with turkey, ham, cornbread, baked beans, greens, a slice of cheese and apple pie (for $16). For another two weeks, these ...
The food you eatand the wine you drinkare the landscape you create— Bainbridge Island, Wash. Vineyard and Winery If I've learned anything in the last couple of decades it's that mindless holiday shopping brings out my inner grinch. Now that the little kiddies in the family are grown and everyone's basics ...
Once the Thanksgiving leftovers are finally finished, an authentic Christmas experience is something many of us wish for. Far from flashing lights, plastic baubles, fake trees and the mall, just a handmade celebration with the smell of pine and woodsmoke, the stove warm from cookies baking and carolers singing the ...
It's gone way beyond just produce at the Ann Arbor Farmers' Market these days. With meat, cheese, fish, bread, fruit, garlic, cider, pickles, pastries, yogurt (and more!), the farmers' market has become my supermarket. Except for my beloved Hellman's mayonnaise, I can buy pretty much everything I need for a ...
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