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Abstract: The rapid growth and co-option of the local agriculture movement highlights a need to deepen connections to place-based culture. Selection of plant varieties specifically adapted to regional production and end-use is an important component of building a resilient food system. Doing so will facilitate a defetishization of food systems by increasing the cultural connection […]

The Bread Lab is arming bakers with a whole new set of grains. Once upon a time, there was white flour and whole-wheat flour, and that was about it. In California, I'd watch my chef friends return from the markets with diverse hauls of amazing produce and think, Wait, what about us bakers? At Tartine, […]

"Interested in farming on the Pacific Northwest? Want to spend the summer surrounded by the beauty of the Olympics? The FIELD program is looking for interested interns to come out and farm on the Olympic Peninsula! We are a new internship program, associated with Washington State University and a host of farmers (young and old) in Jefferson County. Our goal is to provide a new generation of […]