4+ hour, 44+ min ago  (742+ words) The owners of the last remaining dairy in Tazewell County recently announced they're closing their business. It's one of many dairy farms across the Commonwealth that have closed in recent decades. Keeping a small farm in a rural area in…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (700+ words) Wine is hard: all the varieties, the food pairings and the hard-to-pronounce names. When faced with a restaurant wine list that is just too complicated to navigate, many people immediately call for a sommelier. Others, though, pull out their phones…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (527+ words) Gentle waves lapped at the feet of Brent James on a recent morning as he trudged through the muck of low tide. James, oyster restoration coordinator at the nonprofit Lynnhaven River Now, stooped to marsh grasses at the edge of…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago  (192+ words) It actually smells like the herb thyme inside Agro Sphere's new manufacturing plant on Route 29 in Charlottesville where company founders Payam Pourtaheri and Ameer Shakeel brew batches of the novel bio-fungicide they launched in 2025. "It smells good," says Pourtaheri. "Some…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (689+ words) A statewide summit to improve Virginia's food systems brought together people from agriculture, food aid, and academia. WMRA's Ayse Pirge reports. LIA KELINSKY-JONES: We're here today to talk about this idea of resilience, which is really about how our food…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (375+ words) The Food Evangelist: John Park on the Virginia Culinary Scene What does it take to become the most influential "Food Evangelist" on the East Coast? This week on Naturally Curious, we sit down with the man behind the lens and…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (384+ words) They say it's spring. But for many, there are still colder-than-normal temperatures, while in other parts of the country, there's a severe heat wave. What do you eat? We pull away from the heavy soups, stews and meat dishes we…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (46+ words) WVTF Inside a farmer's homestead in urban Brooklyn In Brooklyn, just a few blocks from a New York City subway stop, is a sprawling urban homestead with a flourishing garden and chickens. This article was originally published on WBUR. org....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (285+ words) As of Tuesday, March 10, Maryland is lifting the closure of shellfish waters on the Potomac River." Harvests of shellfish were"shut down in January after the Potomac Interceptor pipe near Washington D. C. burst, creating"one of the largest sewage spills in…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (269+ words) Building on James Madison's role in drafting this country's guiding document, Montpelier is unveiling Constitutional Cocoa, a look at the role of chocolate in our history. Historian Kelley Fanto Deetz says some patriots ditched their traditional tea for hot chocolate....