Harvest 2014 Issue

Last Updated October 07, 2014

Edible Iowa River Valley #33, Harvest 2014

Sweet Harvest

Hand-Picking Sweet Corn at Dan D Farms in Knoxville One morning in early June this year Dan Dennison and I sat drinking coffee at his...

Everyone has an opinion on how to prepare sweet corn, but for me there’s only one way. Grill it in the husk at temperatures above 300...

Eat Greater Des Moines boosts local food efforts Each year, Central Iowa Shelter & Services assists approximately 2,000 Des Moines-...

Regional Food Co-ops Take Off in Cedar Rapids & Des Moines Kim Burnett-Hanssen is passionate about local foods, but can do without the...

Let’s begin with some numbers. Thirty acres. Over seventy varieties of pumpkin, squash and gourds are grown at Pierce’s Pumpkin Patch near...

Making your own sun-dried tomatoes is this simple: wash, halve, remove pulp and dry in the sun. There are, however, some other things you...

Last summer when my fiancée Lauren and I pulled up to the prairie, bees boilingly hummed around our bee club’s hives as our wedding...

A Conversation with Slow Money Visionary Woody Tasch Woody Tasch has been working with food and finance for decades. As an economist in...

Franklin Street Brewing Helps Revive Downtown Who’s up for a little whitewater kayaking followed by quaffing a pint or two of fresh beer at...

Defending Beef: The Case For Sustainable Meat Production Because I am at once a writer, a cook, and an omnivore, I have been confronted...