Farm to Plate

Sustainable Food Center honors the Meredith Family with first ever Changemakers Award

By Shelley Seale

05.07.13 | 11:52 am

On May 9, the Sustainable Food Center will present its first-ever Sustainable Food Changemakers Award — a new tradition honoring an individual or group of individuals who have contributed to ...

Digital dirt

4 farm to web businesses: Austin experiences welcomed surge in online local food resources

By Layne Lynch

02.12.13 | 12:42 pm

What was once a world populated by mom-and-pop shops and small startups has now become plagued with e-commerce, smartphones and social networks. In a time like this, small businesses and young ...

Eating local

Nation's first Farm-to-Table legislative caucus kicks off in Texas with dinner, fundraiser

By Karen Brooks Harper

11.29.12 | 1:20 pm

AUSTIN — The bright purple kohlrabi was pulled from the ground on Tuesday at a farm about 25 miles northwest of Austin. Angel Valley Organic Farm employee Dana Newlove sold it to us for $1 at ...

3rd Annual Austin Community Gardening Tour

04.28.12

This free, friendly-to-all-ages, open-house style tour provides the opportunity to visit an inspiring array of gardens throughout the Austin area where participants are growing food and growing com

market report

Farm-fresh and free: HOPE spreads the market love in different locations during SXSW

By Amy Gentry

03.13.12 | 1:11 pm

The HOPE Farmer’s Market is bringing fresh produce, live music and free beer to the East Side! With its usual downtown Pine Street Station location converted to a SXSW venue, the community ma ...

new approaches

Backyard gardens: Austin goes hyperlocal with the 5 Mile Farm's new CSA

By Tavaner Sullivan

01.02.12 | 1:27 pm

If you are at all interested in local food, you’re likely familiar with the usual lingo and services — community supported agriculture (CSA), sustainable food, farmers’ markets, f ...

local fare

Serving nose to tail: A culinary movement sweeping Austin

By Angela Lunardi

12.29.11 | 7:00 pm

Surveying the menus of restaurants using local sustainable products in Austin, you’ll find an amazing array of meat not seen in recent memory. Austin restaurants have surrendered to the recen ...

Trailer food diaries

The story behind the Trailer Food Diaries Cookbook, a tasty addition to your holiday shopping (and cooking) list

By Tiffany Harelik

12.20.11 | 5:15 pm

I went on a trailer food crawl in February of 2010 with some girlfriends right when the "trailer culture" was blossoming. We set out on a chilly, sunny Sunday only to find only two of the ...

eat, drink and be healthy

Details on the 4th Annual Urban Farm Bicycle Tour, kicking off Edible Austin Eat Drink Local Week

By Tavaner Sullivan

12.01.11 | 4:30 pm

There is nothing like a long, 20-mile bike ride to kick off the week-long celebration of eating and drinking that is Edible Austin Eat Drink Local Week. The 4th Annual Urban Farm Bicycle Tour p ...

Arguing for Farm to Table

What's in your refrigerator this fall? Let season and geography determine your food choices

By Sarah Beth Seifert

11.08.11 | 4:00 pm

What’s in your refrigerator right now? Maybe yours looks like mine — a couple of drawers of produce along with yogurt, milk, juice, chicken, the leftovers from Saturday night’s di ...