Local

Three beloved establishments help define the Harrisonburg food scene   WORDS | Heidi Chaya  PHOTOS | Heidi Chaya & Daniel James Everywhere that I’ve ever roamed, exploring the local food...

Market managers are the unsung heroes of our local markets Illustrations by Roshi K In the food and agriculture industry, there are countless jobs that go overlooked. Among the many...

Recent immigrants preserve their food cultures while putting down new roots WORDS | Lisa Archer PHOTOS | Jesse Feldberg Deo Rai is feeding her chickens. It’s early spring and the...

A conversation with Jen Naylor of Mama Bird  WORDS | Lisa Archer PHOTOS | Sofia Alarcon There’s a cacophony of bird calls as I park the car outside the modest...

Living Local - Christina Nifong The journey to eating local, for me, began with a quest to shrink my environmental footprint. Back in the early 2000s, I reasoned that feeding...

 Views & Brews with Roanoke Mountain Adventures WORDS & PHOTOS | Lisa Archer Pack your water bottles and comfy clothes and explore with Roanoke Mountain Adventures! A guided ebike tour,...

 Remembering Wilson Richey WORDS | Simon Davidson    PHOTOS | Courtesy of Restaurants Months after a car accident took the life of Charlottesville’s most prolific restaurateur, its food community still...

“Most of us are creatures so comforted by habit, it can take something on the order of religion to invoke new, more conscious behaviors--however glad we may be afterward that...