Shelby Wild is a mom, a lifelong gardener, and executive director of Route One Farmers Market in her hometown of Lompoc, California.
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Find yourself wanting to get involved in your city, but constantly feeling the “ick?”
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Residents of Mooresville, NC, are outraged as a road-widening project and ensuing regulatory dispute pushed by city officials threaten the future of a longstanding farmers market.
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Our Neighborhood Storyteller’s local farm share has given her access not only to great food, but to great friends, as well.
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Strong Towns member Nathan Chung and farmer Ryan Karb are helping bring fresh local food for sale to neighborhoods that don’t have much access to it.
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These 4 steps will put your city or town on the path toward greater resilience and sovereignty.
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This place is a work horse. It grows small businesses from scratch without recourse to bank loans or government subsidies. It provides products and experiences that are genuinely needed in the community. And it costs almost nothing to create.
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In this podcast, Rachel Quednau interviews Alfonso Morales, a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about public markets and what makes them succeed or fail.
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5 reasons foodies should care about building strong towns.
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Is an all-local diet even possible, or is the local food movement just an elitist fantasy?
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When we prioritize local, we aren’t just participating in a trendy consumer pattern. We are actively building stronger local economies and stronger towns.
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Last week, Sarah Goodyear from CityLab interviewed me about the project. Her first question was this: When you did your chairbombing, were you worried at all about the police confronting you? The landowner? My answer: In this case, not really. AND THEN! Here was the scene this week at the market...
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