The Green Scheme organizes programs for youth and families to help grow community gardens in the wards, has started a water bottle brand available for sale in a D.C. grocer, and now it has its eyes on impacting city policy.

Virginia lawmakers have passed a bill that would change labels for soy, almond, and oat beverages.

Fair season is upon us, and the D.C. region is home to many. Here’s where to go to get your fair on.

Nearby farms that can help with your produce needs through the more frigid months.

The Smithsonian Institution’s annual Folklife Festival starts today with a trio of cultural expositions filling the National Mall. This year’s focuses are the country’s land-grant colleges, arts from east of the Anacostia River and the 25th anniversary of the AIDS Quilt.

February is the local food doldrums. But it’s also when you need to deciding if you want to join a CSA for the year. We break down the pros and cons and help dig up some of the CSA choices.

Photo by Sh4rp_i. Stink bugs are much maligned, pestering bugs that can invade houses – showing up everywhere and smelling quite foul after they die. However, while we might find stink bugs to be an annoyance, they are quite the problem for area farmers. Stink bugs have destroyed area apple and peach crops. Now scientists have are pushing an insecticide that seven states, including Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, could use to fight the little…

Exciting news this fine morning for the many Washingtonians who draw their paychecks from the USDA — you may still be paid after you die. The Post reports that the The U.S. Department of Agriculture distributed $1.1 billion over seven years to the estates or companies of dead people, though granted, they were actually all farmers instead of government employees. Now we just have to figure out the best way to pretend to be a…

In times when security fears, whether justified or not, begin to creep over our lives, it’s important to remember that the tiny chipping away of legitimate rights can be a slippery slope to unwarranted governmental authority over our lives. We wrote in June about photographer Chip Py’s experience in downtown Silver Spring, as well as Kate Mereand’s similar confrontations all over D.C., and their subsequent formation of DC Photo Rights, a Flickr group dedicated to…

What’s going on with the Post’s Food Section? Between last week’s piece on the Warehouse District and this week’s articles on soft shell crab and RFD’s Brooklyn Brewery tasting, it appears the WaPo’s Food section has improved from the days of Christmas cookie spreads and brunch for beginning entertainers. Still. Isn’t the section about to fold? And if so, when? Rumor mill tells us it’s within a matter of weeks — and that the paper…