Writing in the Huffington Post about National Farmers Market Week, Elliott Negin of the Union of Concerned Scientists harkens back to the late 1990s, just before FreshFarm Markets started the first producer-only farmers market in D.C. When I relocated to D.C. from New York, I had no idea I was moving to a food desert. [...]
In some ways, the 14-year-old Dupont Circle FreshFarm Market is a victim of its own success. The Sunday market can get awfully crowded. And for some early risers, the market isn't open early enough. According to the FreshFarm organization, which runs 11 area markets, the Dupont location, currently on 20th Street NW between Massachusetts Avenue [...]
Whether you believe it or not, I'm pretty sentimental about the things I care about. Glory still makes me weep every time I watch that scene on the beach. This little guy will forever own a piece of my heart. And around this time of year, I begin to mourn the loss of good, fresh-from-the-vine [...]
Lots of places are taking the 40th anniversary of Earth Day pretty damn serious this year. Consider Bread & Brew off Dupont Circle. The restaurant is going 100 percent vegan today, no doubt an acknowledgment of the role meat production plays in global warming (though not as much as originally thought). In a similar vein, [...]
UPDATE: 2:20 p.m. Friday You think the blizzard was tough on you? Try being a winter farmer with a greenhouse to tend. Keeping those hothouses warm and wired to electricity was a challenge for a number of regional farmers. Regardless, many of them plan to make the long drive in and sell their produce at [...]
Y&H had a hard time extracting himself from the office by the start of the FreshFarms Market by the White House yesterday, so I missed all the politico-celebrity speech-making. Fortunately, there were only, say, a thousand other journalist covering that angle. So I focused on, you know, the food. It's a farmers market after all, [...]
The traffic is outrageous on Vermont Ave. during rush hour! No one needs to tell you, least of all Y&H, that in this blog-eat-blog, 24-hour news-cycle world everyone is required to have an opinion. But, really, shouldn't everyone wait until the object under criticism has actually opened? I'm speaking about the new FreshFarm Market by [...]
During a week in which when we learned that the D.C. area had placed not one but two toques on the upcoming season of Top Chef, I'm pleased to report that Y&H readers were far more interested in the closing of an icon, Nathans in Georgetown. We are not, it seems, complete tools of the [...]
The headline is tongue-in-cheek, but it's also true: How many low-income folks do you see shopping at local farmers markets? The question is particularly relevant in D.C., where, according to the Mayor's Office, 105,751 residents are food stamp recipients. How many of them do you think shop at the Dupont Circle market when they have [...]
