Bella’s Best organic gourmet goodies sets up booths at farmers markets around the metro area, selling cookies, breads, and sweet potato biscuits. But Ray Grady saves the most persuasive sales pitch for his company’s signature ... Read more

Those of us who treat small-scale farming as a spectator sport view asparagus as a returning champ: It’s one of the first crops of spring and a rare perennial vegetable. Farmers need only plant it ... Read more

At Buckeye Creek Farm in Hickory Flat, Liz and Randall Porter raise a variety of corn that is so heirloom, they don’t even know the name of it. “Someone sent it to the ag school ... Read more

Photograph by Caroline Kilgore Like the pig hoof it’s named for, the Spotted Trotter hit the ground running. Before the Kirkwood charcuterie opened to the public in November, owner Kevin Ouzts was already turning out ... Read more

Photography by Caroline Kilgore My motivation for giving locally made gifts this year is that I don’t have to drive to any malls to buy them. Thanks to a pair of culinary-minded entrepreneurs, I don’t ... Read more