This is my second contribution to Civil Eats' monthly series of profiles of farmers and ranchers who are changing our food system for...

When I'm at the grocery store or the farmers' market, I'm inundated with so many labels and certifications it makes my head s...

Writer and cookbook author Nancy Harmon Jenkins has traveled and lived all over the world, in the process coming to the realization, in ...

Eggs are getting a lot of press these days, from the ballyhoo over big corporations announcing they'll only use cage-free eggs to deb...

On a trip to Eastern Oregon for a food conference in May ( read my report here ), I decided to take a couple of days to explore this incr...

Ask my husband what he'd like to grill for any given event and, barring Thanksgiving and Christmas when he smokes a whole turkey, the...

There's a closely held secret that local food advocates aren't telling you, and I feel it's my bounden duty to bust that secr...

My friend Kim has a flock of around 40 pastured hens on her property in Happy Valley, a diverse collection of heritage breeds like Amerau...

My friend Chrissie Zaerpoor at Kookoolan Farms sends out a monthly newsletter about her farm and the practices that make it a very differe...