Farmers Market & Local Food

SNAP benefits at farmers markets routinely double your buying power through token-match programs, but the process is booth-specific and poorly explained at most markets. I watched a woman nearly walk…

Grass-fed and grain-fed are not binary categories at the farmers market. I’ve seen vendors sell “grass-fed” beef from cattle that spent their last 60 days on a feedlot, and I’ve…

The most common mistake I see in locavore eating is treating “local” as a purity test rather than a practice. I don’t recommend refusing all out-of-season imports – the stress…

Your gut microbiome can shift functionally to match a new seasonal diet in roughly two to six weeks, but only if you stop interrupting the process with out-of-season imports. The…

The most common mistake I see when tribal communities launch food sovereignty projects is measuring success by acreage instead of by what actually enters the bloodstreams of the families who…

Leafy greens can lose up to 90% of their nutrient content within 24 hours of harvest. Most supermarket spinach is already days past that window before it reaches the shelf.…