I try my best to buy as close to the farm as I can. I frequent farmers markets, I buy meat from local sources and I always ask where the fish came from when I buy fresh. Do I do this 100% of the time?

I hate to be a cynic, but I suppose it was inevitable: With consumers today increasingly willing to pay a premium for local and/or organic food, it was only a matter of time before the scam artists of ...

It's a bourgeois dilemma, to be sure, but it's one many produce-loving healthy eaters face. We asked the experts how to decide. It’s a bourgeois dilemma, to be sure, but it’s one many produce-loving ...

In December, the National Restaurant Association (NRA) released its What’s Hot in 2010 survey in conjunction with the American Culinary Federation (ACF), naming locally grown produce, locally sourced ...

It’s no secret that the organic food market is ever-growing. Organic food hit $28.4 billion in sales last year, and the Nutrition Business Journal reports that organic food products will reach and ...

Consumer Reports has no relationship with any advertisers on this website. Faster than you can say “kale salad,” it seems like yet another farmers market pops up. In fact, there are more than 8,680 ...

Growing population, drought, the use of biofuels and increased consumption have contributed to a growing world food crisis. The most Growing population, drought, the use of biofuels and increased ...

This essay was adapted from the book Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew. A couple of years ago, I visited an organic vegetable farm in southeast Minnesota, not far from the Mississippi ...

With the organic movement sweeping the nation, shoppers have started to look a little more closely at organic products, weighing not only the health effects but the environmental and economic effects ...