by: Adrienne Wichard-Edds photography by: Molly McDonald Peterson Wilson Richey should not have ended up at Revolutionary Soup. With a career that began in the erstwhile Tea Room Café (now l’etoile) in Charlottesville’s Starr Hill neighborhood and detoured through wine retailing and distribution, he expected to land squarely as a chef in his own French [...]
by: Adrienne Wichard-Edds You can’t set foot in Charlottesville without feeling Thomas Jefferson’s influence around every serpentine-walled curve, but insiders know that this historical Virginia town is also a locavore’s heaven. To tackle as many farm-to-table options as possible and squeeze in just enough sightseeing, don’t be afraid to make different stops for each course [...]
Does chef Melissa Close-Hart pinch herself when she arrives at work—a restaurant surrounded by vineyards, with a kitchen garden tended by a horticulturalist and ingredients raised by local farmers who plant to her specifications? By Dyan Carlson • Photographs by Laura Merricks Melissa Close-Hart is living a professional chef’s dream. For 10 [...]
Every Saturday from April to October, hundreds come to a downtown Charlottesville parking lot for the City Market, which celebrates the region’s diverse agricultural bounty. Most of the shoppers strolling among the dozens of stalls filled with local produce, cheeses, and meats are unaware that many items remaining at the end of the day are [...]
Nearly landlocked by the massive Kluge Estate Winery, Blenheim Vineyards sits unassumingly 20 minutes south of Charlottesville. A small winery with a full-time staff of only four, Blenheim is owned by musician Dave Matthews and run in large part by members of his family. Although Blenheim has been in operation for nearly 10 years, it [...]
The story of Panorama Farm and the family that tends it started out like most: Jim and Bunny Murray moved to this piece of land in Earlysville, with its arresting view of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in 1953 and raised eight boys. Incorporated in the late 1970s, the farm stayed in conventional agriculture through the [...]
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