The packing and washing house at Five Penny Farm in Floyd this week became the scene of the annual local foods “Meet-and-Eat,” a networking day for local growers, grocers and chefs.
As a farmers market groupie and known food lover, I was lucky enough to be invited for the second time. Sponsored by the Blue Ridge [...]

Peacock-Harper Culinary History Friends Group, based in Blacksburg at Virginia Tech, will hold its quarterly luncheon at the Hotel Roanoke at noon on Nov. 30.
The hotel’s Executive Chef Billie Raper will present “What the elite ate in the good old days: menus of the grand destination hotels.” Chef Raper will demonstrate a dish from the hotel’s [...]

When Tom Klatka looks across Buchannan’s bottom at Virginia Tech’s Kentland plantation, he sees more than an orderly agricultural testing center. He sees the beginnings of North American agriculture.
In his mind, Klatka conjures the dozens of known and unknown Native American villages hugging Montgomery County’s Fertile Crescent, the floodplain of a horseshoe bend in the New River, [...]

Blacksburg Farmer’s Market and craft vendors, music by The Porch Loungers, guess the weight of a big pumpkin and other fall food-related fun on Saturday (Oct. 27)  from 8 a.m.-2 p.m., corner of Roanoke Street and Draper Road in Blacksburg. More info at bbfarmersmarket.org.
Also, Historic Smithfield Plantation will celebrate heirloom apples and dedicate its new [...]

The news of the late-night robbery hurts, and I don’t even depend on those tomato and bean plants to pay my bills.
“Went down this morning to find a dastardly deer had entered the greenhouse through the side flap and had a delightful feast of my bean and tomato leaves,” Gwynn’s e-mail says.
“Oh. My. God,” I [...]