Ag and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain will be eating local this month. He is participating in the first annual New Orleans Eat Local Challenge. The challenge is for participants to eat food that is grown or caught within a 200-mile radius of New Orleans. “The best chefs of New Orleans … Continue reading →

By Judy Walker The Times-Picayune Food can present all kinds of challenges: Making a new recipe or mastering a new cooking technique. Staying on a weight-loss diet. Sticking to a grocery budget. Here’s a new one: Eating only local foods for 30 days during the month of June. A group … Continue reading →

Alex Woodward on the New Orleans locavore movement and “Eat Local Month” by Alex Woodward Gambit Weekly Lee Stafford is driving to Avery Island to pick up 200 pounds of salt. The island has a naturally occurring salt dome, a source of salt for indigenous Native Americans before the island … Continue reading →

As Eat Local month begins in New Orleans, Andy Cook introduces you to some of the young farmers who are growing your food by Andy Cook Gambit Weekly In June, New Orleanians will have the chance to participate in the Eat Local Challenge – a pledge to eat only locally … Continue reading →

by Richard McCarthy Richard McCarthy talks about the Eat Local Challenge on WWNO’s Farmers Market Minute

by ROBERT PEYTON myneworleans.com The hot, humid weather is here at last. I hope those of you who were bemoaning the cold weather a few weeks ago are happy. I know that the warmer weather means good things with the discomfort. I will happily consume tomatoes in a few weeks … Continue reading →