No matter where you live in metro Atlanta, chances are, there’s a farmers market near you. If you’re looking for a weekday market to supplement your dinner, a Friday market to stock up for the weekend’s dinner party. If you want breakfast while you browse, there are plenty of weekend markets to suit. We counted…
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Walking to the Trough
A new way to eat in Atlanta. The idea of springtime in Paris is so culturally pervasive that not only are there films and songs that get their title from the season, but airfare prices jump at the first sight of a bud opening up. Much can be said of the effect the natural world…
Wild Plates
Fresh, local, organic, and free—what’s not to like about foraged food? It’s the smell of the hot—hot asphalt, hot roofs, hot Atlanta—that drives us out of the house. We navigate the worn sidewalks, investigating our city with curiosity and disbelief as the mid-year temperature begs sweat from our shirts. The branches above us heave with…
Easy Summer Entertaining
The key to entertaining is to make guests feel welcome and send them home well fed. Some people are born to entertain and others have to work hard at it, but who doesn’t love a good party? The cheerful clinking of glasses, boisterous laughter, the oohs and aaahhhs, mmms and yums. Those are the sounds…
Make Life a Picnic
Give an al fresco meal that picnic-feel with these tips. The official start of summer may be the solstice on June 21, but summer really starts with Memorial Day weekend. It’s the kickoff of afternoons spent tending burgers and ribs on the grill, enjoying lazy picnics in the park—before it gets too hot—and supper under…
Seeds for the Future
Seed saving, the original recycling, offers ultimate sustainability and plenty of surprises. Just a few generations ago seed saving was a common practice among American farmers. Ensuring the next year’s crop was the primary reason, and economic practicality was surely a close second.
Agriculture in Atlanta Has Arrived
Rural, urban, suburban—it makes no difference: Farming is hard, tough work.
No Kidding Around
These goats make great chevre. There’s a special look in people’s eyes when they sell food that they have grown and created with their own hands. The goat farmers of Capra Gia Cheese Company in Carrollton each have that look—clearly proud and passionate about each package of artisan chevre they hand you while you stand…
Many Hands Make Light Work
Wolfscratch Farm gets mobbed. My father grew up during the Depression on a family farm in the countryside east of Atlanta. My grandparents, Ruth Lee and James Selma Bryan, fed their eight children well on the crops they harvested from their land. But the acres of earth that once yielded healthy fresh food have been…
Fresh Ideas for a Southern Spring
Spring creeps sneakily into the South. It’s hard to plan what to wear, much less a menu. One day it’s blustery cold and the next warm and balmy.