Meeting local honey demand is risky business
Louisville’s empowering urban farming laws allow citizens to transform their quirky hobbies into mainstream small businesses. But, participating in the local food movement, with the desire to share the...
View ArticleSourcing spring chickens for every yard
Victory garden propaganda during WWII urged citizens, namely women and children, to grow vegetables and raise chickens for eggs. At the time, self-sufficiency was considered a patriotic duty. Families...
View ArticleUrban Farmers Dig Derby Season
Urban farmers crave Derby season not just for the two weeks of celebrations, strengthened sense of community and the world’s most legendary horse race. For locavores eating from the yard, it’s finally...
View ArticleThe farm and the family behind JD Country Milk
Edna Schrock and her husband Willis didn’t expect to become dairy farmers when they settled in Russellville, Kentucky, in 2006. They moved their family from Illinois with the dairy cows that fed their...
View ArticleCommercial eggs in decline as local flocks dodge flu
As bird flu spreads through commercial poultry operations, and neighborhood chicken-keepers are busy stocking cartons of summer surplus in their refrigerators, local eggs at the farmers market could...
View ArticleKentucky restricts low-risk cottage food sales
Despite the strength of our local food movement, Kentucky joins Delaware and Rhode Island as the three most restrictive states in the country for cottage food sales. Cottage foods include known safe...
View ArticleFamily meal
Did you know that many professional cooks have poor eating habits? We taste dishes over and over all day while we tweak and verify for consistency. We nibble at our mise-en-place: a few roasted pine...
View ArticleGone Bird: Lone free-ranger found barefoot in the park
On a swift jaunt around the Scenic Loop of Cherokee Park, I met a handsome stranger who’d probably wandered from his home someplace nearby. His bold stature, and vibrant comb and wattles hinted that...
View ArticleThe illusion of food variety
Eat from the rainbow and eat five servings a day, we’re told. For living-food purposes, the rainbow has six colors. Unless one knows to eat at least five servings of a variety of fruits and vegetables,...
View ArticleA farm noir trilogy
The annual farm field trip is anticipated by children and chaperones alike. Hayrides. Pumpkins. Using one’s GPS in the corn maze because one is lost. Last year was magical. This year, the farm trip was...
View ArticleThe food chain of command
Children who grow to inherit the family farm don’t always have much choice in how to continue the business. They accept the debt and conventions that come with the land. Many of these farms grow...
View ArticleFoodPort is risky, revolutionary and necessary
The original concept of the West Louisville FoodPort was not the dynamic infrastructure it’s planned to be now. Originally, developers described it as a food hub, like many other food hubs that already...
View ArticleNew Roots Fresh Stop Markets grow community-driven food justice
Food justice is often overlooked as a component of social justice, but many neighborhoods still ache from decades of geographic and socioeconomic segregation — even in the bustle of progressive cities...
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