Duncan Family Farms® is proud to announce that its founder, Arnott Duncan, has been named the 2025 Grower of the Year by the Organic Growers Summit (OGS). The honor was presented last week at the organization’s annual event in Monterey, California, where Arnott was...
Product Review: Cut Waste, Save Produce – How Shelfy Keeps Food Fresh Twice As Long
Move over baking soda there is another air purifier in town. My first thought - not another gadget! What exactly are we talking about? The Shelfy fridge purifier by Vitesy, is a small but mighty innovation that is designed to keep food fresh twice as long. Their...
Fruitcakes And Other Nutty Things
My paternal grandmother, Lilybell Hollis Carter, was the very model of propriety. She lived in a small Georgia town where her father had once served a mayor. She was not wealthy – far from it. She was a widow raising three young children working as a bank teller. She...
Festive Cranberry-Orange Orzo Salad For Thanksgiving & Friendsgiving!
Brighten up your holiday table with this colorful Orzo, Orange & Cranberry Salad! Looking for a plant-packed side that’s as vibrant as your holiday spread? This sweet-and-tangy pasta salad is bursting with seasonal flavors of zesty orange, tart cranberries, and...
Donate Or Volunteer For The 17th Annual Destin Crop Drop
FEEDING FAMILIES 17 YEARS IN THE MAKING NOVEMBER 22, 2025 DESTIN METHODIST CHURCH 200 BEACH DR. What is Crop Drop? Feeding Families for OVER a decade! Since 2009, Crop Drop volunteers have sorted, bagged and distributed hundreds of thousands of pounds of unsold...
Big Food Lobby Seeks To Weaken State-Level Food Ingredient Oversight
Dr. Marion Nestle, longtime NYU professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health, with additional faculty roles at UC San Francisco and Cornell, is best known for analyzing the intersections of food, politics, and health, often exposing how government policy,...
Food Politics AI Impersonation Alert: Please Report As Spam
I’ve been AI hijacked. Please report as spam. Several readers have sent me Instagram posts that include videos of me arguing in favor of not eating breakfast, fasting, or promoting wellness products. These more-or-less look like me speaking, and more-or-less sound...
Smart Snacking: Why Peanuts Deserve A Spot In Your Day
Snacking is a way of life in the United States. In fact, it's reported that 95% of adults and 93% of children have at least one snack a day. However, it's important to avoid the "snack trap" of grabbing a quick bag of chips or sports drink. Those types of carb-heavy,...
AFT Celebrates Five Years of Soil Health Stewards Program
Toolkit released to assist agricultural land conservationists in promoting the benefits of soil health American Farmland Trust is celebrating the fifth year of its Soil Health Stewards program, a national effort to educate the agricultural land protection community...
When Nutrition Data Disappears: What The NHANES Layoffs Could Mean For Public Health
Dr. Marion Nestle, longtime NYU professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health, with additional faculty roles at UC San Francisco and Cornell, is best known for analyzing the intersections of food, politics, and health, often exposing how government policy,...








