Feature Sweet Crusade: Jim
Cochran's Strawberry Secrets   

June 2011
Saveur magazine

Why strawberry farmer Jim Cochran made flavor his mantra

Travel When Detroit Says 'Eat
Local,' It Really Means It
October 28, 2010
The Atlantic Online: Food Channel

In the Motor City, a tight-knit, compact community of urban farms and food artisans is taking locavorism to the next level

Review 'Lunch Line': A Meaty
Lesson for Moviegoers
June 10, 2010
The Atlantic Online: Food Channel

A new, history-oriented film should be required viewing for anyone concerned with the origins of school lunch

Profile An Urban Farming Pioneer
Sows His Own Legacy
May 18, 2010
New York Times

Profile of John Ameroso, New York City's first (and last) urban agricultural extension agent.

Opinion Better Off on Big Farms
Nov. 2, 2009
Slate magazine

For workers in agriculture, size matters.

Profile Beets in the Hood
March/April 2009
Mother Jones

Meet Milwaukee's veggie genius

Saveur 100 Item 3: Garden Cities
February 2009
Saveur magazine

In parks, in vacant lots and even on the grounds of abandoned factores, urban gardens and farms are growing better food than their commercial counterparts and bringing fresh produce to lower-income neighborhoods where markets are often scarce.

Q&A Joshua Viertel
Nov. 21, 2008
Gourmet.com

Slow Food USA's new president takes on a new food frontier: Social justice.