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Working to provide holiday meals for homeless

By Maggie Cagney | November 2

With Thanksgiving approaching fast, Juan Tuset wants to make sure all Hispanic residents in need receive enough information to register for a holiday ...

UNC students gather food donations in ‘trick-or-feed’ event

By Ana Rocha | October 31

Despite a cold rain, more than 50 UNC students went door-to-door in Meadowmont and Southern Village to collect food for local children Monday afternoon. ...

Homegrown Halloween has hurt the profits of Franklin Street bars

By Caroline Leland | October 30

For local business owner Kyle Heath, Halloween used to be the most profitable night of the year — rivaled only by a national championship. But since ...

Maple View Farm wins NC Grange award

By Victoria Esguerra | October 27

Maple View won this year’s Farm of the Year award from the North Carolina State Grange, a nonprofit organization promoting the agricultural community, ...

Chapel Hill eateries debut various seasonal dishes

By Maggie Cagney | October 26

As the leaves begin to change color, so do the menus at some of Chapel Hill’s most famous restaurants and coffee shops. Local chefs are whipping up ...

Chapel Hill will consider loosening its food truck regulations

By Ana Rocha | October 17

The half-renovated 1976 Airstream trailer that sits in Steve and Nancy Williams’ driveway in Carrboro represents their plan to make some extra money ...

Local food processing center to open in Hillsborough

By Elizabeth Straub | October 6

Local food producers will soon have a more cost-efficient way to bring their products to consumers’ plates.

Piedmont Grown program promotes locally grown food

By Conor Furlong | October 4

Local agricultural experts and farmers are optimistic that a program to promote locally grown food can now obtain a grant they say will help it flourish. ...

Hector's to reopen on East Rosemary Street

By Jeanna Smialek | August 20

Pita double cheeseburgers are making a comeback in Chapel Hill. Hector’s, tentatively slated to open Labor Day weekend, will be a revival of the original ...

A Southern Season sold to group of investors

By Jeanna Smialek | August 19

Michael Barefoot was a foodie before being a foodie was cool. When he opened the doors of A Southern Season for the first time in 1975, he brought a passion ...

Certified ‘green’ gastropub to come to Chapel Hill

By Holly Beilin | April 20

A new environmentally sustainable restaurant will join about 60 other local small businesses that have committed to maintaining green practices. The gastro ...

Joel Salatin speaks at UNC about organic and sustainable foods

By Megan McCluskey | April 13

Several hundred people ate up every word Joel Salatin had to say about organic and sustainable foods Wednesday night. Salatin, owner and operator of ...

Farmer author to speak at food event on Wednesday

By From staff and wire reports | April 12

Joel Salatin, a local food advocate and author of “The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer,” will speak at an event Wednesday titled “Local ...

Photo: Symposium studies food cultures (Melissa Key)

Student symposium analyzes food cultures

By Haley Sklut | March 27

Food fed more than just stomachs Friday. Inside Hyde Hall at “Food Cultures: First Annual Student Food Symposium,” it nourished a desire to frame ...

Local FOOD middle man

By Ethan Robertson | February 22

Matthew Roybal doesn’t look like a farmer. Young, tan and professionally dressed, the 36 year-old Hillsborough resident looks more like a chef, but ...

Maple View Milk: a life story

By Alex Walters and Blair Mikels | February 17

If you live in Chapel Hill and shop at the grocery store, you’ve probably seen the glass Maple View milk jars available in the dairy section. But are ...

Hillsborough food center opening delayed

By Chad Royal | February 6

Hillsborough’s new food processing center’s opening date has been pushed back to April, with more than half the construction left to be done. ...

Hillsborough food center set to open next year

By Kevin Rothenberg | October 27

An official ground breaking ceremony commemorated a space that could soon revolutionize the way area farms do business. The Piedmont Food & Agricultural ...

Farmers' markets join together for hunger relief

By Jessica Gaylord | September 23

Farmers’ markets in Carrboro, Durham, Chapel Hill and Cary have teamed up for the first time to participate in the Triangle Foodshare Challenge from ...

Ken Kernodle, Joe Hackney, Valerie Foushee, Steve Troxler, Brett Carter, Allison Nichols and Bob Nutter cut a ribbon at Maple View Farm in Hillsborough Thursday to celebrate the farm’s new solar energy field.

Ribbon cut on solar field at Maple View

By Sarah Glen | September 2

Maple View Farm consists of more than 400 acres of farm land, about 300 cows, an on-site milk-bottling operation and now an acre of solar panels. A ...