Articles About locally-grown food

• At winter market, greens in the gray

  By Diane ChiddisterJanuary 19, 2012

  

  The Yellow Springs Winter Farmers Marketlaunched its third season last Saturday, Jan. 7, in the basement of the First Methodist Church.

• A radical, rooted farm vision

  By Megan BachmanMay 26, 2011

  

  Where can you learn how to repair a tractor, help move a barn, have chicks raised for you and eventually pick your own strawberries and buy fresh-pressed apple cider vinegar and hazelnut oil, all from a 29-year-old woman?

• “Radical” farm takes root

  By Megan BachmanMay 17, 2011

  

  Amy Batchman started Radical Roots Farm outside of Yellow Springs with big plans for the seven-acre homestead.

• Forests for local food

  By Megan BachmanApril 18, 2011

  

  Mark Shepard told a crowd of 120 villagers to transform our farm fields into forests for more local food.

• Year-round harvest— A field of greens among the white

  By Megan BachmanDecember 30, 2010

  

  At Flying Mouse Farms in Yellow Springs, there is no off-season.

• Whey to go: local cheese arrives

  By Megan BachmanDecember 23, 2010

  

  Those who prefer local foods can now add a variety of locally-produced cheese to their diets, thanks to two area dairies that have recently been turning fresh milk into cheese.

• Corner-copia: saag paneer in winter, the homemade way

  By Diane ChiddisterNovember 4, 2010

  

  When Akhilesh and Pratibha Nigam arrive at the Indian Food Corner — located at Corner Cone on Dayton and Walnut Streets — in the morning, they start each dish from scratch. If they’re making saag paneer — which they undoubtedly are, since the spinach/cheese favorite is one of their five menu items…

• Hatching New Liberty Farm

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 16, 2010

  

  The butter-yellow chicks twittering about in their baby blue swimming pools look and sound happy and healthy. Though in about six weeks, most of them will become someone’s dinner, their brief lives will be spent frolicking with their brothers and sisters with plenty of grains, bugs and grass to eat. The folks at New Liberty Farms would have it no other way.

• Forest gardens in your own yard

  By Megan BachmanAugust 5, 2010

  

  Growing food in a backyard garden can be a lot of work. But by designing a “forest garden” of trees and shrubs, aligned with ecological principles, gardeners can achieve a food yield sustainably, with less maintenance. This is the essence of a seven-day forest gardening workshop from Aug. 9 to Aug. 15 on a farm homestead north of Yellow Springs on Hustead Road…

• CSAs for good food, local focus

  By Megan BachmanJune 3, 2010

  

  Both Smaller Footprint Farm and Heartbeat Community Farm have thrived since going into business in 2006 by growing vegetables directly for their members using a model called Community Supported Agriculture, or CSA for short.