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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 ...

Ken Dawson sells vegetables and plants to Carolyn Hogan at the Carrboro Farmers’ Market on Saturday. DTH/Nushmia Khan

Market adds new way to pay

By William Wilmer | April 20

Shoppers at the Carrboro Farmers’ Market will no longer be limited to paying with cash. The Carrboro Farmers’ Market will begin the Common Currency ...

Mauricio Castillo sautés the ingredients for the shrimp scampi pasta, served every Tuesday at Lenoir Dining Hall. DTH/Daixi Xu

Lenoir chefs get creative in making menus

By Victoria Cook | April 14

A hint of math, a dash of science and a sprinkle of experience — that’s the recipe for serving about 4,000 students a day in Top of Lenoir. “The ...

Franklin Street restaurants feed growing food tourism industry

By Courtney Brown | March 26

If the James Beard Foundation Awards are the Oscars of food prizes, then two Franklin Street chefs are on the red carpet.

Activists encourage buying pricier sustainable, local, organic food

By Christopher Sopher | March 17

Though it is likely to cost more, food activists are pushing people to buy sustainable, local and organic food anyway. “Finding ways to spend our ...

Chickens roam cage-free at Cane Creek Farm in Snow Camp on Tuesday. DTH/Mary Lide Parker

1.5.0 brings local food to Lenoir

By Stewart Boss | March 16

1.5.0., the newest restaurant at Lenoir Mainstreet, is known for advertising the farms its products come from and how the food being served each day was ...

Alice Ammerman, a professor at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, is leading the research project. DTH/Arrard Cole

Alice Ammerman's plan for your food

By Christopher Sopher | March 15

Alice Ammerman is the type of person who cooks cabbage for school fundraisers.

The Food Equation: From the farm to the shelves

By Christopher Sopher | March 15

Renee and Randall Parker of Parker Farms went from farming tobacco to keeping pasture-raised hogs. Renee discusses the benefits and challenges of sustainable ...

1.5.0. is UNC's largest attempt at sustainable dining

By Christopher Sopher | March 15

When Carolina Dining Services first started offering sustainable food last year, the menus looked a lot like what they were already serving.

The Food Equation: A look at 1.5.0.

By Nick Brenton and Christopher Sopher | March 15

Paul Basciano, executive chef at Carolina Dining Services, gives us a look at 1.5.0, the new restaurant in Lenoir Dining Hall.

Map: The farms that provide food to 1.5.0. restaurant

By Sara Gregory | March 14

Lenoir's newest restaurant, 1.5.0., gets all of its food from farms within 150 miles of Chapel Hill. This map shows which farms supply which products. ...

Orange County food project seeks resident input

By Liz Marrow | March 2

The local food movement in Orange County just got a $30,000 boost. The Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project awarded the Orange County Cooperative ...