Ashley Allen and Tricia Widgen started Sweet Bite Creamery, which features a collection of ice cream sandwiches that are not your ordinary Klondike Bar.

After 11 generations, the farm, or “Tuttle’s Red Barn,” which by some accounts is the oldest continually operating farm in the United States, will close its operations.

Former boxer Zeljko Mavrovic is a successful grain producer and baker, educating Croatians about organic food and sustainability while providing economic opportunity. According to Mavrovic, he wanted to invest his boxing earnings “in something that would not only allow me to continue to grow personally, but also to bring benefits to a larger community and to planet Earth.”

A walk through Amsterdam’s Aelbert Cuyp market gives you a first-hand introduction to the high-quality, fresh, and local products for which The Netherlands is famous.

Forage takes cooking from local ingredients a step further: the restaurant actively request ingredients from local home gardeners, and set aside hours during the week (Sunday after brunch) during which locals can come by with their home grown produce for tasting and inspection.

We hear much noise over the need to buy local and especially, organic.  The Obamas are one reason, but the past several years have seen a backlash against processed foods and a surge in combating the USA’s hideous obesity problem.  Buying organic, however, requires more than purchasing products with a green leaf on the label.  [...]