Farm to Consumer Newsletter

Six Notable Locavore Restaurants More than thirty years ago when Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California, she sparked a movement in American cuisine that focused on locally sourced food, expertly prepared. In time, others followed suit. One...

Most Americans now live within ten miles of a craft brewery, making microbrews perhaps one of the best-understood and most widely embraced examples of “farm-to-consumer” products. These are independent producers using traditional methods to produce intentionally...

How to Understand the Difference in Seeds There’s been so much talk about different types of vegetable seeds, that it’s no surprise that some people might feel confused. Occasionally it has been suggested that genetically modified (GMO) seeds are the same as those...

The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Wal-Mart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table. By Tracie McMillan McMillan went undercover in three jobs that feed America, living and eating off her wages in each: California fields, a Wal-Mart produce aisle outside...

Every year the Environmental Working Group releases two lists: one of the “Clean 15,” those fruits and vegetables that carry the least possibly pesticide load. And the other, “the Dirty Dozen,” of those fruits and vegetables that have the most residual pesticides....