Launching this summer, the Sterling College program will bring a star-studded group of experts to Vermont to focus on both the craft and the business of artisan food and agriculture. The post W...
https://civileats.com/2016/03/24/want-to-start-a-new-american-farmstead-theres-a-school-for-that/
In the opening scene of the film After Winter, Spring a French farmer name Guy spots the stony edges of an ancient farm tool peeking up through the ground in his field. He holds the tool in his h...
There’s no question that food waste is a fiasco. Up to 40 percent of the food grown in the U.S. is never eaten. But for all the talk of reducing waste, among environmentalists, humanitarians, a...
https://civileats.com/2014/11/04/6-food-waste-myths-dispelled/
So you’re cutting back on steak to lower your cholesterol or your carbon footprint but you don’t want to live on beans and tofu alone. Can you subsist on veggie burgers with the flavor profil...
https://civileats.com/2014/10/16/forget-tofurkey-here-is-a-new-batch-of-meat-alternatives/
The founders of First Generation Farmers in Brentwood, California have spent the morning squatting and stooping uncomfortably as they hand-harvest row after row of asparagus. “This is the harde...
https://civileats.com/2014/09/30/preserving-farms-on-the-urban-edge-case-study-brentwood-california/
There are two stories about the artisan cheesemaker’s life: The fantasy, filled with bleating goats, calm country days, homemade wine, and an enviable supply of chèvre, and the reality, which ...
https://civileats.com/2014/09/15/want-to-be-an-artisan-cheesemaker-heres-where-to-start/
In the summer of 1970, a group of friends followed an old stagecoach road into the woods of California’s Gold Country. They were hunting for mining relics and pioneer oddities hidden in the for...
https://civileats.com/2014/09/08/the-mother-orchard-project-a-gold-rush-of-heirloom-fruit/
“Farming is a couple’s business,” says Jenks Farmer, a commercial flower grower in rural South Carolina. If you don’t have a spouse to help you out, he adds, “it is really hard to becom...
https://civileats.com/2014/08/19/american-gay-thic-lgbt-farmers-come-out-of-the-shadows/
It’s rare that a university system commits to solving a social issue on a global scale. That’s why the University of California’s recently announced U.C. Global Food Initiative could mark a...
https://civileats.com/2014/07/31/plan-global-eat-local-u-c-s-food-initiative-starts-on-campus/
If you find yourself at a Farmer’s Guild meeting, you’re as likely to find a date as you are a tractor. With seven chapters across Northern California, the Guild has become the “it” desti...
https://civileats.com/2014/07/21/grower-social-the-farmers-guild/