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Detroit Residents Connect in Shared Kitchens
In Mexicantown, on the Southwest side of Detroit, Chloe Sabatier makes French lava cakes. Sabatier sources as many of her ingredients as locally as possible, including raspberries, strawberries, and...
View ArticleAs More Schools Turn to Food Fundraising, FarmRaiser Takes it Local
When Mark Abbott’s son was in fourth grade, his local elementary school recruited students and their families to participate in a fundraiser for the school. After successfully selling cookie dough and...
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Real Salad in a Gas Station? Detroit Company Creates Fresh Food Pit Stops
If you’re on the hunt for a fresh, ready-to-eat meal in Detroit, the best place to find it just might surprise you. Take the Sunoco station on Fort Street or the Victory Liquor and Food store on Warren...
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An Urban Farmer Breaks New Ground in Flint
Thirty-year-old Roxanne Adair is a trailblazer. In 2010, she and a friend started Flint River Farm in Flint, Michigan, a city where urban farming isn’t the norm. Adair’s background was in fisheries,...
View ArticleBallard Bee Company is Bringing Pollinators Back to Washington State
Have you considered putting in a beehive, but worried that you might not have the time to maintain it? If you live in Seattle, you’re in luck. Once a month, Corky Luster’s Ballard Bee Company will...
View ArticleHow One Visionary Changed School Food in Detroit
In the past four years, school meals in Detroit have been transformed. Gone are the chicken nuggets and sugary drinks. Now school cafeterias serve fresh fruit and mixed baby green salads, lean meat,...
View ArticleAirport Beekeepers Get a Second Chance
Every 10 days, Thad Smith enters a piece of land that is otherwise forbidden to most people: The empty acreage around Chicago’s O’Hare airport. It’s there that Smith and his crew from the Westside Bee...
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These Salad Greens Keep Growing on Your Kitchen Counter
Salad greens have been getting a bad wrap in the news lately. Not only are pre-cut greens notoriously risky from a food safety perspective (Since the 2006 E. coli outbreak, all bagged lettuce now gets...
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Banding Together to Build a Better CSA
On paper, the community supported agriculture (CSA) subscription model is an ideal partnership. Members of the community support the farmer by paying for their produce in one lump sum before the...
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What Other Cities Can Learn From Philadelphia’s Effort to Cut Salt in Chinese...
As folks dig into Chinese fare to celebrate the Lunar New Year, they might be surprised to hear that they’re getting an extra helping of sodium. Popular main dishes such as General Tso’s Chicken can...
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The Detroit Food Academy Makes Teens Food Industry Ready
Nineteen-year-old Hassan Amaleki is on the fast track to a successful career in the food industry. By the time he graduated from high school in 2015, Amaleki had worked for a thriving food business,...
View ArticleThis Subsidized Bus Service is Helping Flint Residents Get to Grocery Stores
Before Flint, Michigan became synonymous with poisoned water, residents had another major health concern: limited access to healthy foods. Residents were shocked in the spring of 2015 when two of...
View ArticleHow Flint is Using Good Food to Combat Lead Poisoning
When news of the Flint water crisis went viral in January, water donations and pledges of support came from around the world, and suddenly a community that was long ignored by the outside world was the...
View ArticleWould You Buy a Meal From a Restaurant that Hasn’t Opened Yet?
When Andrew Harris and Johann Moonesinghe started their restaurant, Prequel, in Washington D.C., they avoided taking out bank loans with high-interest rates. Instead, they raised $350,000 in cash by...
View ArticleDelivering Summer Meals to Rural, Low-Income Kids with Retired School Buses
In an apartment complex in Greene County, Tennessee, children wait excitedly for the arrival of the Lunch Express bus. The apartment manager sets up picnic tables in the shade, while Christy Lunday...
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On Cleveland’s Largest Urban Farm, Refugees Gain Language and Job Skills
Across the Cuyahoga River from downtown Cleveland, men and women dressed in brightly colored clothing harvest vegetables from tidy rows of plantings. Multilingual conversations take place in Hindi,...
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5 Programs Helping Soldiers Become Farmers
Although it has largely faded to the background, the U.S. is currently embroiled in the longest war in its history, the 16-year-and-counting operations in Afghanistan. Despite the declared end of...
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There’s a Nationwide Cook Shortage. Culinary Training Programs to the Rescue.
Madison, Wisconsin-based Chef Jonny Hunter has a passion for hand-crafted, local food. The charcuterie produced by his company Underground Meats has won three Good Food Awards. His meat-centered...
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Banding Together to Build a Better CSA
On paper, the community supported agriculture (CSA) subscription model is an ideal partnership. Members of the community support the farmer by paying for their produce in one lump sum before the...
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What Other Cities Can Learn From Philadelphia’s Effort to Cut Salt in Chinese...
As folks dig into Chinese fare to celebrate the Lunar New Year, they might be surprised to hear that they’re getting an extra helping of sodium. Popular main dishes such as General Tso’s Chicken can...
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