Two friends build home, end up Michelin & Pritzker awarded by Kirsten Dirksen on January 30, 2021 Olot (Catalonia, Spain, population 34,000), an old town in the midst of the Pyrenees’ foothills, is well known for its …
Biointensive mini-farming: grow more food in less space by Kirsten Dirksen on November 13, 2012 With just one-tenth of an acre of space, it’s possible to grow your entire diet, claims a Northern California gardening …
Farming mushrooms as Slow Food, medicine, bioremediation by Kirsten Dirksen on March 19, 2012 In the past few years, mushrooms- and the vegetative part of the fungus, mycelium– have been elevated from the underworld. …
Urban goats for organic raw milk in a San Francisco backyard by Kirsten Dirksen on December 5, 2011 Heidi Kooy lives in a fairly dense part of San Francisco- her row house touches her neighbors’- with just 1000 …
Alimentar al mundo: mitos, medias verdades e informes by Nicolás Boullosa on January 25, 2011 Hace un par de años, un reputado economista estadounidense comentó en una charla a la que acudía, durante un campus …
Locavores and a European model (a faircompanies dinner) by Kirsten Dirksen on November 22, 2010 When New York Times food producer Emily Weinstein joined us for dinner here at faircompanies, one of her first comments …
The nightly yogurt-making ritual (with home yogurt maker) by Kirsten Dirksen on October 19, 2010 We wanted to make our own yogurt- namely because organic yogurt was so much expensive than organic milk- so my …
Hyperlocal shopping: lessons from Hester Street Fair by Kirsten Dirksen on September 6, 2010 It may be a sign of the times that when a tv star wants to get creative she opens a …
Hester Street Fair: homemade, homegrown, hyperlocal shopping by Kirsten Dirksen on September 2, 2010 For over a century Hester Street has been home to New York City’s biggest and oldest pushcart markets, so when …
Raw milk: Idaho ranchers on why not to pasteurize by Kirsten Dirksen on August 14, 2010 Before the advent of pasteurization, all milk was raw milk. There were also a lot more food-related illnesses. Universal pasteurization …
