As I am poised to leave my job after 16 years as executive director of CISA (Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture), naturally, I’ve started to reflect. My takeaways so far are: local farms are ...

Farm to table has become a major cultural movement focused on freshness, sustainability and knowing where food comes from.

For the past couple of years, cafeteria lunches served to about 83,000 youngsters in every Vermont public school and some private schools have included more local foods, thanks to a federal funding ...

Most of the food for school lunches is brought in from different locations, in part because of the need for large orders and nutrition requirements. Tucson Unified School District has partnered with ...

Local food systems are often viewed as alternatives to the global food system to stress their "promise of difference." But many myths have also been debunked, such as the "local trap" — the belief ...

The local food movement is one of the most exciting trends to hit supermarket produce departments in recent memory. Organics initially satisfied consumer demand for food grown, raised and produced ...

The Luzerne Foundation’s Millennium Circle selected the Food Dignity Movement as this year’s grant recipient, awarding the organization $25,000 to support its mission of strengthening local ...

Situated on a previously vacant 2-acre lot, Meacham Urban Farm has transformed a once unused space into a productive green oasis in downtown Tampa. The farm is part of the Encore redevelopment project ...

Research supports several benefits associated with local food systems, although not without nuances and controversy. These benefits include their ability to reconnect consumers and producers, ...