Does cheap food lead to obesity? Does the US Farm Policy lead to cheap food? I assumed farm subsidies were part of the reason food, especially processed food and fast food restaurant food so cheap. This story offers a surprising view of why our food is so much cheaper. Listen to the entire NPR report [...]

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Please note: Pickup at Brookside Gardens will be indoors for the rest of the season. Thank you for your flexibility.

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Want your child to love veggies? Start early. Very early. Research shows that what a woman eats during pregnancy not only nourishes her baby in the womb, but may shape food preferences later in life. Listen to the full NPR report here. Things like vanilla, carrot, garlic, anise, mint — these are some of the [...]

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If you want a simple example of how vital a role infographics can play in our world, look at the food labels in your refrigerator. Do they really give you any sort of useful information? 20 grams of sugar. Is that a lot? 100 calories per serving. Doesn’t sound like much. And 5 grams of [...]

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They’re using goat power to cut down invasive plants in Gaithersburg. Anne Arundel and St. Marys counties and the Maryland State Highway Association are also employing herds of goats from a company called Eco-Goats. They eat invasive plants like Japanese Stiltgrass, Mile-A-Minute Vine, Autumn Olive and Oriental Bittersweet. The video illustrates how the goats provide [...]

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While packaging makes up 40 percent of municipal waste streams in the US, avoiding packaging is sometimes impossible. Nearly all the food we buy in the grocery store is packaged, leaving us no choice but to buy packaged food that’s not always recyclable. in.gredients revolutionizes grocery shopping as we know it. Our goal is to [...]

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Robert True, one of the CSA founders, operates Blueberry Gardens. They are now open for U-pick. Biodynamic blueberries – yum. Lots and lots to pick this season. $4/pint and $8/quart. Berries available from June to August. Call ahead 301-570-5468 or visit them online at Blueberry Gardens.

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Some timely tips from Kate McDonough, author of The City Cook: Big City, Small Kitchen. Limitless Ingredients, No Time. More than 90 recipes so delicious you’ll want to toss your takeout menus and Editor of TheCityCook.com, via the blog the kitchn. CSA newbies can get discouraged by expecting the same food we’d buy at the [...]

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Guidance from food blog food52, shows how you can get 3 meals, starting by roasting a chicken, beautifully illustrated with photos. Food52 is written by New York Times food reporter Amanda Hesser, co-author of The Essential New York Times Cookbook and her co-author Merrill Stubbs, who is food editor at Herb Quarterly. Herb Quarterly? These [...]

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“America’s current system of food production – overly centralized and industrialized, overly controlled by a handful of companies, overly reliant on monocultures, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, chemical additives, genetically modified organisms, factory farms, government subsidies and fossil fuels – is profoundly undemocratic. It is one more sign of how the few now rule the many. And [...]

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