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First-Annual Holiday Gift Guide

We think the perfect gift is edible, locally made, and available online, so it can be shared with friends and family near and far. Read More →

Locavore Road Trip: Catching Fall Color in Front Royal

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As the leaves begin to turn, fall, and crunch beneath my feet, I find that there is nothing as reminiscent of growing up in Virginia as getting up early on a Saturday morning and taking a daytrip to the Blue Ridge. Gaze out...

Flavor Café: Palladio

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Does chef Melissa Close-Hart pinch herself when she arrives at work—a restaurant surrounded by vineyards, with a kitchen garden tended by a horticulturalist and ingredients raised by local farmers who plant to her specifications? By...

Château Morrisette: From Family Hobby to Destination Winery

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Château Morrisette began as a family hobby in the 1970s and is now one of Virginia’s oldest and largest wineries. By Melissa Flynn • Photographs by Pat Jarrett David Morrisette likes to joke that what began as a family...

As American as Apple Cider

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With heritage apples from the family orchard and small-batch production, Albemarle CiderWorks is putting the sigh back in cider. By Jennifer Conrad Seidel • Photographs by Laura Merricks Virginia’s wine industry gets...

Rebel with a Cause:“Local” and “Gourmet” Does Not a Viable Restaurant Make

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Start-up businesses are capitalizing on the local food trend. But when those businesses fail, farmers don’t get paid. By Joel Salatin Big food companies employ lawyers and other means to make sure wholesalers and retailers...

Cover Feature: Saving the Bay One Perfect Oyster at a Time

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The more oysters we eat, the better chance they’ll thrive in the bay. By Walter Nicholls • Photographs by Molly McDonald Peterson It’s time to raise a farmed oyster half shell for a slurping salute. The number of...

Catching the Bus

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Farm to Family boldly goes where no farmers market has gone before. By Laura Kitchin Greenleaf • Photos by Laura Merricks This isn’t your grandfather’s milk truck. Unless your grandfather was a Merry Prankster. Bearing...

Winemaker’s Notes: Daniel Neumeister

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Sugarleaf Vineyard’s winemaker Daniel Neumeister was tragically killed on October 4, 2010, in a traffic accident outside Charlottesville. Here is the Winemaker’s Notes profiling Daniel that appeared in the...

Rebel with a Cause: The Chicken & the Egg

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• BONUS ONLINE-ONLY CONTENT FOR OCTOBER 2010 • If you weren’t already convinced that the industrial food system is unsafe, the recent egg recall should have scared you straight. By Joel Salatin “I don’t think