Food

All traditions once began as new ideas, often borne of extreme circumstances and desperate times.…

The founders of one of Fairfield’s most popular hangouts, the Cider House, are returning to…

The organic community is growing, more people are farming organically, and organic farmers are doing…

Ethiopian-born Genet Areda has always loved to cook. While studying to be a nursing assistant…

Sóley Thorsteinsdóttir grew up helping out in her grandmother’s Fairfield eatery, 2nd Street Coffee House,…

Quick quiz: What do Jefferson Giant, Abe Lincoln, Slanders, Woodle Orange, and German Red Strawberry have…

If you sit down at a restaurant to eat some wild-caught salmon from Alaska, you’d…

If you think Iowa farms are all corn and soybean fields, the J40 Farm Crawl…

Our Cheesehead neighbors in Wisconsin may be the biggest consumers of cheese curds, but these…

At long last, summer has arrived, that wonderful time when we look to our blossoming…

As if we needed an excuse to indulge, July is National Ice Cream Month. Nothing…

Launched in 2015, the Sustainable Iowa Land Trust (SILT) has been quietly working to save…

Got a spring painting project? How do you find the best paints? Millions of Americans…

Last year at Easter time I bought a fake, white-chocolate candy version of a deviled…

Dive into fresh pancakes covered in locally sourced maple syrup and sample some unusual maple-syrup…