Posted by Whitney K. Pipkin on October 26, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Sometimes I learn a lot more from a story than I’m able to fit onto the page. That was certainly the case with a seafood story that ran this month in Arlington Magazine, which I really hope you’ll take a minute to read. In the months since I reported it (I joked with the source that this was … Continue reading →
Category Environment, Food, Food shopping, Food writing, Politics of Food, Pregnancy, Uncategorized · Tagged with #amwriting, Arlington Magazine, eat more seafood, Invasive species, Linda Cornish, Seafood, Seafood Nutrition Partnership
This blog post originally appeared at BayJournal.com, where I’m on staff, and is appearing here with permission. Twenty-one. That was the number of bottled waters — set as sips before us in glass stemware — we judges were tasked with parsing in just one round of the recent 26th annual International Water Tasting competition in Berkeley … Continue reading →
Category Environment, journalism, Networking, Sense of place, Travel · Tagged with Berkeley Springs, bottled vs. tap water, Chesapeake Bay Journal, International Water Tasting, water tasting, West Virginia, World's Best Water
Posted by Whitney K. Pipkin on October 13, 2015 · 1 Comment
You know it’s fall in Washington, D.C., when there’s a panel discussion every afternoon and a new restaurant opening (or reopening) every night of the week. It’s our annual, pre-hibernation fall fest, and we do it well. Still, there’s nowhere else I’d rather be this time of year, when the leaves tempt us with their … Continue reading →
Category Environment, Food policy, Food writing, Networking, Politics of Food · Tagged with Anthony Lombardo, antibiotics, antibiotics in meat, Blue Circle Foods, CCC2015, Center for Food Safety, chefs as catalysts for change, Clydes Restaurant Group, Colin O'Neil, DC Food Day events, Fall events in DC, Food Day 2015, food events in DC, Laura Rogers, local food supply, Mike Wilson, Nina Damato, Organic chicken, save antibiotics, Seafood, Spike Gjerde, SV Organic
Posted by Whitney K. Pipkin on September 22, 2015 · Leave a Comment
I’m sitting on the deck at our new house, feeling fall between my toes. They didn’t see much sand this summer — unless watching other people vacation on Instagram counts — but I’m OK with that. I did other things. There was the aforementioned purchase of our first house in good ole’ Northern Virginia, which basically … Continue reading →
Category Environment, Fermentation & Preservation · Tagged with 50 under 50, Accokeek Foundaiton, Canning, Elevation DC, food for thought, food waste, Jonathan Bloom, one year birthday, One year old, Summer in Review, The Splendid Table, The Washington Post, Tomatoes
Posted by Whitney K. Pipkin on June 9, 2015 · 3 Comments
As my food nonprofit friend put it to our little book club, I’m GONNA BE ON THE KOJO SHOW, and I’d love for you to tune in Wednesday at 1 p.m. [UPDATE: You can listen to the segment on the show at this link. Enjoy!] After listening to Food Wednesdays for as long as I’ve lived in … Continue reading →
Posted by Whitney K. Pipkin on April 30, 2015 · 1 Comment
This past summer, I had the pleasure of traveling across Virginia’s Piedmont region (and a little south) to capture the stories of eight farms. My photographer friend Jami McDowell traveled with me for most of them, capturing these beautiful photos (despite very real fears that she might have to deliver my baby on that last … Continue reading →
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It’s been a busy summer, y’all. For kids, in Virginia at least, it has only just begun. But, as I look out my window and watch the fireflies light up my yard at dusk — and think of how stinkin’ hot it was today — I’m reminded it’s in full swing. So, I guess you could … Continue reading →
Category Environment, Food, Food policy, Food writing, Good reads, Politics of Food, Uncategorized · Tagged with Beacon Reader, Capital Area Food Bank, crowdfunding, Dan Barber, food section, food writing, journalism, new project, strawberries, summer, summer in Virginia, The Third Plate, Washington Post
Posted by Whitney K. Pipkin on May 21, 2014 · 1 Comment
There will be a Tesla, free yoga, performances by Step Afrika and access to (and samples of) some of the best green products on the market (read: a purse full of Lara and Clif bars). The Green Festival is returning to D.C. for its 10th year on May 31 and June 1! The festival will fill a wing of … Continue reading →
Category Environment, Food, Food policy, Networking, Uncategorized · Tagged with arcadia center for sustainable food and agriculture, Bernie Prince, cliff bars, food access, Food Data Jam, free food, FRESHFARM Markets, green, Green Festival, Green Festival DC, hackathons, June 1, Lara bars, May 31, Pam Hess, panel discussion, Washington Convention Center
It’s been a crazy week, the sort of week that makes a pregnant woman need to sleep for a week to recover. But I wouldn’t trade one minute of it (OK, I would totally trade the minutes spent scrubbing the bathtub in the house we moved out of, but I digress). We moved from the … Continue reading →
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Posted by Whitney K. Pipkin on December 6, 2013 · 3 Comments
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. That’s right, it’s food-and-farms conference season. It’s that time of year when production in the field slows and farmers huddle inside event centers to discuss best practices and plot their course for the coming years. Did I mention that local farming conferences have some great local food? … Continue reading →
Category Environment, Farming/Ag, Food policy, Food writing, Networking, Politics of Food, Uncategorized · Tagged with conference, Dr. Arden Andersen, Farm to table, farming conferences, local farms, local food, organic food, Rebuilding the Foodshed, soil health, Virginia, Virginia ag, Virginia farm to table