Living Local: Find Your Community

How can you make an impact on your local community? What impact does community have on the local food system and sustainability? Chuck Minguez of Door to Door Organics and Jeanna Kane of the Doylestown Food Co-op explore what it means to live locally. Chuck encourages people to go out and join in the change…

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Living Local: Know Your Producers!

What does it mean to live locally? How can you be a local citizen? Alex Jones of Fair Food Farmstand in Philadelphia suggests that getting to know your food producer–literally, the source of the food you are eating–will strengthen your civic pride. In her words: My suggestion would be to not only give your dollars…

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Living Local: Buying Local, and Knowing from Whom You Buy

  Wondering how you can support your local community? Try committing to buying local, and buying from people you know. Lisa White, President of the Doylestown Food Co-op, really encourages people to buy local, as much as possible, as a way to ensure the continued vitality of your community. “I love where I live and…

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Living Local: On Raising Chickens and Keeping a Garden

Patti and Emily are both old* school Blue Mooners, with lots of experience themselves in gardening in agriculture. Patti, our seeding and watering specialist, has a BS in Horticulture from Penn State and a pack of chickens and 2 dogs in her backyard. Emily, who manages our market (and market garden) in Buckingham, in addition…

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Relocalization’s Triumph

Pick up a menu at Triumph Brewery New Hope and you’ll notice something special: it’s all local. That’s right. For just under a year now, the upscale brew-pub has been committed to sourcing exclusively from local farms, wholesalers, distilleries, and vineyards. It’s the kind of quixotic experiment you privately shake your head at—until it succeeds.…

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