Five Days until Food Day! »
Food brings you and those in your life together to “break bread”, to nourish your bodies and to share. This year, on October 24, 2012, the second annual “Food Day“ will bring together members of a multitude of communities across the country to do the same, with inspired action to celebrate healthy, affordable and sustainably produced ...
A highlight on Food Day »
If you’re reading this, you probably love food. And why shouldn’t you? It’s delicious, it’s social, there’s no end to the variety so you’ll never get bored, and it literally keeps us alive. Something as amazing as food really deserves its own holiday, which is why I was so excited to find out that there’s ...
Blue Glass Cafe. A Back Bay Local Restaurant. »
Walking around Boston’s Back Bay, you see lots of familiar restaurants and bars. The food scene in our fair city is huge – growing and changing recently to include food trucks and new styles of food. But one thing that doesn’t go out of style is buying locally, connecting with your customers, and being ...
MDAR and the Boston Local Food Festival »
The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) is one of the oldest departments of agriculture in the U.S. Its interests lie in two broad areas: regulatory and promotional. On the one hand it deals with animal health (rabies) and crop and pest services (Asian Longhorn beetle). On the other it deals with agricultural conservation and ...
Local Brews at the Boston Local Food Festival »
Curl up to a cup of locally roasted java! Equal Exchange will be at the Boston Local Food Festival. Meghan Hubbs from Equal Exchange gave me some of her time to discuss Equal Exchange’s involvement at the festival. The team at Equal Exchange is looking forward to sharing the Greenway with 120 local vendors. To ...
Blue Tierra Chocolate Satisfies Boston’s Sweet Tooth »
It’s finally here! This Sunday, October 7th, the Boston Local Food Festival will take over the Rose Kennedy Greenway with delicious, locally sourced treats. Among those vendors will be Jen Turner, founder of Blue Tierra Chocolate. After graduating from culinary school, Jen worked in several pastry shops and bakeries. Through those experiences she decided ...
Bootstrap Compost: Building a Future from Waste »
When Andy and Katie Rooney began designing plans for their new business, 3 Little Figs Bakery & Cafe, they knew that they were obligated to the community to be environmentally responsible. While they were careful to select sustainable take-out products, they decided to do even more. The Rooneys had been composting their food scraps at ...
Small But Mighty: Idle Hands and Nanobrewing »
Beer connoisseurs have long loved the microbrewery, but technology keeps making everything smaller so behold: the “nanobrewery.” Idle Hands is the smallest commercial brewery in Massachusetts. Whereas a microbrewery makes 7 to 15 barrels a batch, Idle Hands makes only 1.5. But their small size isn’t holding them back. With two regular brews and a ...
Mill River Winery Showcasing at Local Craft Brewfest! »
The Local Craft Brewfest, affiliated with the Boston Local Food Festival, is coming up tonight (10/5) at the John Joseph Moakley Courthouse in Boston’s Fort Point. In addition to local craft brewers, this year’s fest will feature Mill River Winery of the North Shore. This past weekend I visited the winery, where I was able ...
