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Please join us for our third annual Taste of the Farm event! Organic plant starts, kid’s activities, food, music, and more!

Date: Saturday, May 11, 2013
Time: 10am – 3pm
Location:Local Food Hub Educational Farm

We’re proud to be partnering with Charlottesville SOUP!

Local Food Hub would like to extend a warm thank you to the students of UVa’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy!

Come to Maple Hill Farm for the plants and the kid’s activities, stay for the delicious array of lunch and snack options!

Yesterday we highlighted the more ag-oriented aspects of Taste of the Farm (animals and plants and farm tours, oh my!), but today we’re talking about KIDS!

One of the best reasons to join us on Saturday is pretty obvious: it’s a great way to get a hands-on look at life on the farm! And when we say hands-on, we mean it!

Local Food Hub is growing…and that means we’re hiring! Please take a look at the following opportunities and consider applying.

Is it an apple? Is it a potato? A radish? Students at Kate Collins Middle school were stumped by the ‘mystery vegetable’ tossed into a mixed green salad at the annual Healthy Teen Fair in Waynesboro earlier this month.

For most schools, the Farm to School movement is about bringing fresh, healthy food into the lunchroom (and the classroom). But this year, St. Anne’s-Belfield School is doing all that, plus flipping the script.

Food and agriculture are inextricably linked to the health of our planet — and since we all eat, each of us has a role to play in choosing food that keeps our Earthly home healthy.

Michael Phillips has spent more than 20 years growing apples on his 1880′s New Hampshire farmstead, quietly debunking the commonly held belief that his favorite fruit can’t survive without pesticides. For a fruit that consistently makes the top 10 list of fruits and vegetables that have the most pesticide use, this is no small feat. …