Local, Handmade Sweets for Spring

The Capital foodshed’s chocolatiers and artisanal candymakers create beautiful, decadent offerings that are perfect for Valentine’s Day and Easter.

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Flavor Cafe: The Restaurant at Patowmack Farm

This restaurant doesn’t just buy from local farms. It actually sits on a working farm. And the chef is getting national attention.

Vouchers for Veggies

Many assume local food is just for the affluent. But advocates are working to make sure the neediest among us can shop at farmers markets, too.

Rebel with a Cause: What We Can Learn from the Big Box Stores

To really make a dent in the industrial food system, we have to make buying local food more convenient.

Rebel with a Cause: Beware Those Sincere Conservation Easements

Designed to save farms and farmland, these easements drive farmers into extinction.

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Vouchers for Veggies

Helping food stamp recipients shop at farmers markets near and far. By Marian Burros • Photo by Kristen Taylor With names like Boston Bounty Bucks, Fresh Checks, and Double Dollars, programs at a few farmers markets across the...

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Rebel with a Cause: What We Can Learn from the Big Box Stores

I am an advocate for farmers markets and CSAs.But if we really want the masses to “buy local,” do we need to consider another model? By Joel Salatin Anyone who knows me knows I’m an ardent supporter of farmers markets and...

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Flavor Cafe: The Restaurant at Patowmack Farm

Beverly Morton Billand is the Capital foodshed’s ultimate, farm-to-table pioneer, and chef Christopher Edwards brings what she grows to the plate. By Walter Nicholls • Photographs by Molly McDonald Peterson In the late 1990s,...

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Local, Handmade Sweets for Spring

Links to the websites shown in the gift guide can be found below. ACKC, Washington, D.C. & Alexandria, VA (202) 387-2626 & (703) 635-7917 • www.thecocoagallery.com C-ville Candy Company, Charlottesville, VA (434)...

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Rebel with a Cause: Beware Those Sincere Conservation Easements

These landscape-oriented restrictions make farming unsustainable. By Joel Salatin The words stung. “You cannot build a single structure on this farm.” We wanted to build a chick brooder and a small processing shed in order...

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