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]

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]

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

A group in the Doylestown/New Hope/Newtown area is working to put together a hip and fun community garden.  [More]

A mysterious malady that has been killing honeybees en masse for several years appears to have expanded drastically in the last year, commercial beekeepers say, wiping out 40 percent or even 50 percent of the hives needed to pollinate many of the nation’s fruits and vegetables.  [More]

Stefan Streit, one of the co-managers of Tinicum CSA, looks over the land as he and John Crooke launch their first season as a community-supported agriculture venture on the preserved farmland of the Schneiderwind Farm & Nursery in Upper Black Eddy.  [More]

Farmer Hugh Bowman hardly looks the part of a revolutionary who stands in the way of promising new biotech discoveries and threatens Monsanto’s pursuit of new products it says will “feed the world.”  [More]

Bartlett Durand is the rare local-food entrepreneur who has no trouble turning a profit: Durand’s Black Earth Meats processes and sells grass-fed beef, and these days grass-fed beef sells like crazy.  [More]

Recent reports of secret meetings among industry reps and the Food and Drug Adminstration over GMO labeling piqued my interest, says Michele Simon in Food Safety News...  [More]

Over the last decade, as populations have grown, capital has flowed across borders and crop yields have leveled off, food-importing nations and private investors have been securing land abroad to use for agriculture.  [More]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) designed a new microloan program to help small and family operations, beginning and socially disadvantaged farmers secure loans under $35,000.  [More]