Goats, chickens, cows and a working farm. You'll see it all at Flint Hill Farm on Saturday, July 13 at BCFA's next Summer Farm Tour and potluck.  [More]

The Bucks County Foodshed Alliance is again hosting a series of farm evenings that introduce consumers to the local producers that put the freshest foods onto our tables via direct sales, CSAs, farmers’ markets, farm stands and other venues.  [More]

The Wrightstown Farmers Market opens its seventh market season on Saturday, May 4th from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm at 2203 Second Street Pike in Wrightstown, PA, next to the Wrightstown Township municipal offices on Rt. 232.  [More]

For those in the food business in Bucks County, the new theme is togetherness. That theme was repeated many times Wednesday morning at the Newtown Township Community Room, as the Bucks County Foodshed Alliance hosted a program to introduce the Bucks County chapter of the national organization, Buy Fresh Buy Local (BFBL).  [More]

Hatboro Federal Savings recently donated $2,500 to the Bucks County Foodshed Alliance for the start-up costs of BCFA’s Bucks County Buy Fresh Buy Local® chapter.  [More]

BrightFarms Inc. officials showed off the company’s new, 56,000-square-foot greenhouse that’s up and running in a corner of the Lower Makefield-owned Patterson Farm.  [More]

Recently, outside Doc Bakers, the new organic, vegan restaurant in Doylestown, two perplexed young professional women wondered out loud what the “Non-GMOs” sign meant. Has the seed biotech industry succeeded in hiding the fact that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are staples in today’s American diet?  [More]

Most of us want to eat healthier. Watch the news or read the papers and it can get a little overwhelming. Eat organic? Eat local? No antibiotics or growth hormones? And where can you get all this?  [More]

Program coordinator Dennis Rilling speaks about the creation of the certificate program, which they offer in collaboration with the Rodale Institute.  [More]

The Doylestown Co-Op and the Bucks County Foodshed Alliance are proud to present the Farm Fresh Film Series. The next film, Locovore, will be shown on Thursday, June 6. Future films are in September and December.  [More]

Spring is here, with joyous signs of new life around Bucks County. Part of our annual Spring welcome is enjoying the classic symbol of new life – the egg. Candy eggs are one thing, but selecting eggs to dye for Easter and eat the rest of the year can be a conundrum. Cage-free, brown, white, free-range, organic or just plain cheap? Here’s a key to the differences.  [More]

So you’re thinking of committing to eating a diet that is largely made up of fresh, local foods? Great!  [More]

In an April Op-Ed piece in the New York Times, Jedediah Purdy, a law professor at Duke, argues that transparency, not ag-gag laws, are necessary to help consumers make choices.  [More]

For years people and organizations from Frances Moore Lappé to Slow Food have sought to repair and restore our broken food system, making noticeable but still negligible progress.  [More]

What’s food got to do with loving the planet? Everything.  [More]

Whole Foods Markets has announced that by 2018, all products in U.S. and Canada stores must be labeled if they contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs).  [More]

Scientists at the Food and Drug Administration systematically monitor the meat and poultry sold in supermarkets around the country for the presence of disease-causing bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics.  [More]

The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) have filed a petition with the FDA asking the FDA to alter the definition of "milk" to secretly include chemical sweeteners such as aspartame and sucralose.  [More]