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Sustainable agriculture and artisan cheese at Lucky Penny Creamery and Farm
A family farm and homestead with goats, pigs, chickens, and a mission

Small farms are making a big difference. Ohio’s landscape is dotted with family farms supplying as many as 260 farmers markets, a 150 percent increase in the last decade. Informed consumers increasingly hanker for pesticide and hormone-free, locally-grown produce, and beef and poultry that’s humanely raised. And many new small-scale farmers find satisfying that hunger can be satisfying work.  For today’s Quick Bite, WKSU’s Vivian Goodman takes us to Garrettsville for a tour of The Lucky Penny Farm.
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Senator Brown sets the table for foodies and farmers
U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown's wants his Local Farms, Food and Jobs Act to be part of the farm bill now working its way through Congress

It’s almost a revolution. The local foods movement in Northeast Ohio is drawing national attention including a recent write-up in the New York Times. Feeding the frenzy for fresh, seasonal produce that’s grown right here are foodies, farmers, chefs… And a U.S. Senator from Ohio who grew up baling hay.
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A body-builder's baby food
She won first-place in a figure competition on a raw food diet and says her babies now thrive on it

Monday night in Cleveland, a champion body-builder can show you how to make baby food. Fresh Fork Market, a local farm-food buying club, is sponsoring the cooking class at Market Garden Brewery. In this week’s Quick Bite, WKSU’s Vivian Goodman reports the instructor eats a lot of her food raw and believes babies should, too.
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The Katz Club Diner
Chef Doug Katz of Fire and Provenance opens side-by-side railcar diners in his own Cleveland Heights neighborhood

Why would a chef who already runs two successful fine-dining restaurants want to open a 1940s style diner? Doug Katz has many reasons including family considerations as we learn in today's Quick Bite.
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A banquet of ideas at Akron's Growing Hope Food Summit
Last month's well-attended conference was the second annual food summit sponsored by Akron Summit Community Action

Whether for a quiet dinner by candlelight or a big noisy feast, food brings us together. In today’s Quick Bite, WKSU’s Vivian Goodman reports that concern about food, especially about access to healthy choices, can also unite the community.
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Raise a glass to craft beer week
A nationwide toast celebrates small breweries like Akron's award-winning Hoppin' Frog

Next week is American Craft Beer Week and Northeast Ohio can certainly drink to that. More than a dozen small brewing companies in the region produce many unique and some award-winning styles of beer.

For today’s Quick Bite, we visit an Akron microbrewery that makes one of the world’s top 20 specialty beers.
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Fun with fungi
Two old friends who say mushrooms cured their chronic health problems are on a mission to help others

Last week on Quick Bites, we found out about growing mushrooms outdoors on rotten logs. Today the focus is still on fungi as we learn how to grow them indoors.
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You can grow your own mushrooms
Local food as easy as falling off a log

Eat the wrong kind and you're dead, but the right kind of mushroom might even save your life. You can buy them in the store, or find them in the forest, but in today’s Quick Bite, WKSU’s Vivian Goodman reports the best option may be to grow your own.
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Fruits and vegetables are transforming vacant lots in Akron and Cleveland
It's the plus side of the foreclosure crisis: eyesore vacant lots transformed into farms

Fresh vegetables for inner city food deserts might be  the upside of foreclosures. The availability of vacant land is making Akron and Cleveland hotbeds of urban agriculture. For today's Quick Bite, we visit a local restaurant owner at her farm not far from downtown Akron.
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Why you should care if honey bees can’t find their way home
How the worst year ever for honey bees limits what you get to eat

The mysterious disappearance of half of our honey bees over the last several years is a threat to the nation’s food supply. Bees pollinate most fruits and vegetables. And if you like steak, worry about that, too, because there’s a shortage of bees to pollinate the alfalfa that cattle feed on.

But Northeast Ohio’s beekeepers are responding to the challenge and determined to keep the supply of local honey flowing. For today’s Quick Bite, we enter a stronghold of beekeeping for the latest buzz on colony collapse disorder.
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Craft beer and local food at Akron's "Art and Ales"
Candy, cupcakes and cheese made with local micro-brews

They make craft beer. But it’s more art than craft, according to micro-brewers who gathered recently at the Akron Art Museum.
WKSU’s Vivian Goodman discovers in today’s Quick Bite, that part of the art is combining beer with food.
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Afro-pop and antelope in the atrium of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Zimbabwe's Oliver Mtukudzi makes his Cleveland debut at a dance party with traditional African food

A dance party of immense proportions is set for a week from today in Cleveland’s largest free public space.

The spectacular new atrium of the Cleveland Museum of Art will be the venue next Friday night for an Afro-pop concert.  But first, guests will sit down in the museum’s new restaurant, Provenance, for an elaborate dinner inspired by the music, traditions, and culture of Zimbabwe.  For today’s Quick Bite WKSU’s Vivian Goodman takes us into the kitchen with Chef Doug Katz for a party preview. 

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Chewing it over with veteran grocer Russ Vernon
The maven of Akron's West Point Market reflects on the changing food scene

Nutrition is in the news often these days amid concerns about the quality and quantity of foods we enjoy.  As we learn more about the farm-to-table and local food movements, the perspective of a veteran grocer might be good to chew over. WKSU’s Vivian Goodman invites us for a Quick Bite with Akron’s own Russ Vernon.
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Ohio's organic farmers opt for biology over chemistry
Increasing concern about food safety leads to a growth in consumer demand for food grown and raised without a lot of chemicals

Having a bite to eat could get scary… very soon. Among potential impacts of the sequester: reduced food safety when federal inspectors are sent home. But food worries are nothing new.  Consumers learning about the harmful effects of pesticides, herbicides and genetically modified organisms have long been demanding healthier, seasonal and local food. To meet that demand, many of our region’s small farmers use biological rather than chemical methods to keep crops healthy and bug-free. For today’s Quick Bite, WKSU’s Vivian Goodman looks at the future for organic farming.
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Cloverleaf Elementary's Tot Chefs
Kids and parents learn that cooking together can be fun

Worried about the obesity crisis, concerned about nutrition and food safety, and tired of arguments over what goes into the lunchbox, many parents are trying  a new approach: They’re learning how to prepare meals with their kids.
WKSU’s Vivian Goodman reports in today’s Quick Bite that a school-food expert is helping families get cooking.
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Shagbark hickory syrup flows in Amish country
Tea from the tree's exfoliating bark, well water, and organic cane crystals are the syrup's only ingredients

Foodies foraging for what’s fresh and local have been feeding Northeast Ohio’s economy.

Trendy new restaurants are thriving, farmers’ markets are proliferating and chefs are tipping their toques to the region’s small farmers for the quality and variety of what they bring from the soil.

There’s another benefit of the farm-to-table movement: new specialty foods produced in our region. For today’s Quick Bite, we visit a syrup business running smoothly in Amish country.
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