Just as there are many facets of Jacksonville’s food system, there are many facets of the Northside that reveal themselves in unique and often delicious ways. Cultural barriers, racism, and physical distance reinforce attitudes that promote indifference, wariness, and benign neglect, even from well-intentioned people. One of the feistiest Jacksonville people I met is Chef…
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By Mark Winne
Food Town USA: The Northside Food Scene in Jacksonville, Florida
Backcountry Bounty
Hunting elk on New Mexico public land I walk briskly but cautiously, traversing the rugged desert mountain. I listen for the hair-raising sound of rattles as my boots land, knowing this mountain’s grassy slopes and scree piles hold their fair share of banded rock rattlesnakes. Although beautifully marked with grey and black bands, I don’t…
Breaking Bread and Changing the World: An Excerpt from Renee Guilbault’s Book, “A Taste of Opportunity”
If not us, then who? If not now, then when? As your journey takes you further into leadership, you will reach a point in your career when money and job titles provide only so much satisfaction. That’s when you’ll understand that real satisfaction comes from the fuel underneath it all. Your purpose. All the daily…
StopWaste: 2022 Edible Communities Sustainability Award Winner
Each year, Edible Communities asks its publishers to submit nominations from their local communities for the our annual Sustainability Award. Nominations are vetted by the Edible Communities Board of Advisors and ranked based on scope of work, community impact, and how the work relates to sustainability. Ultimately, the winner is chosen by the award recipient…
Women for the Land: A Program by American Farmland Trust Seeks to Help Women Agrarians Succeed
SPONSORED LeTicia Marshall has always been drawn to the soil. As a child, she helped with chores on her grandparents’ farm in Kentucky, feeding the pigs, picking strawberries and sidestepping cow patties along the way. The deep connection she has to the land was seeded at an early age and has since germinated into something she…
By Amanda Rae
Hope…in a Hot Dog?
Teton Waters Ranch improves one school lunch ingredient to help reverse childhood obesity — and calls on competitors, chefs and communities to get on board. Our kids depend on it. Twelve cents. That’s the average cost to upgrade commodity meat served in public school cafeterias to grass-fed beef, specifically, a hot dog. Teton Waters Ranch…