For Food's Sake

  What prepared you to be a farmer?  I have lived in Decatur all of my life. My dad sold vegetables from the family garden off the back of his pickup truck for years. As kids we always helped dad. By 16, I started taking gardening more seriously. I was pretty excited about the new [...]

                                                                                                                                              Chef Evan Cordes and D&A Farm Host Oct. 11 For Foods Sake What prepared you to be a farmer? When I was younger, I worked in a greenhouse at the local nursery. It was a small, family run business, similar to my farm now. [...]

Southern Swiss Dairy is a milk processing facility located in Waynesboro, GA that is family owned and operated. Our milk is natural and free of artificial growth hormones. We process and bottle milk products the same day our cows are milked, ensuring our customers will have the freshest milk possible Q&A with Farmer Jimmy Franks [...]

What prepared you to be a farmer?       I had no experience in agriculture when I began this journey two and a half years ago.  I turned to books, seminars, spoke with chefs & other farmers, and spent way too much time reading farming blogs on the internet.  I remember one of the first farmers I [...]

        What prepared you to be a farmer? It is a family business and since many generation we were producer especially in olive oil and wine What is a unique feature and how many hectares do you farm? around 700 (about 1700 acres Tell us about your main crops (olives, grapes, etc) [...]

What prepared you to be a farmer? Not sure I am prepared, though I was born on a farm in rural Limestone County, AL in 1941 and grew up absorbing by osmosis, the lesson that if one is to farm, certain tasks must be performed using certain methods at certain times, or things don’t work.  [...]

What prepared you to be a farmer? I spent summers visiting my grandparents in southern Louisiana.  We would cream fresh corn and shell purple hull peas until our fingers were sore.  That’s where I developed a love for vegetables.  Simply prepared, but so delicious I just couldn’t get enough of them.   My father had a [...]

Cory Mosser started farming as an afterthought. After graduating from college, he hiked from Maine to Georgia on the Appalachian Trail and broke bread with several friendly farmers along the way. Upon his return, he was hooked and convinced that the secret ingredient to reinvigorate our communities was the sharing of food- produced and eaten locally! [...]

Q&A with Steve Esau of Niman Ranch What’s your definition of sustainable food? Definition of Sustainable: Ask 10 different people and you will get 11 different answers as the first person will want to change their answer by the time they hear the 10th person’s definition. But to tell you the truth, that’s okay because [...]

Q & A with Farmer What prepared you to be a farmer?I basically grew up on the farm located across the street and spent a lot of time in the fields.  Some of my fondest memories from childhood are picking bushels of corn in the morning and grilling some of them for lunch in the [...]