Guides, Interviews, and Important Research
We are thrilled to announce that in 2018, alongside the (adult) Food & Farm Forum, for the first time ever we will be holding a Youth Food & Farm Forum geared towards youth ages 14-21! Why a Youth Food & Farm Forum? One of ASAN’s core beliefs is that a...
Chef Thyme Randle, founder of the Underground Cooking Academy, wakes up thinking about art. Not what we typically envision like an image, or sculpture, it’s delicious, healthy food he’s been creating in Birmingham for 10 years. Even though he’s a vegan to his core,...
Next up, farmer Kamilla Nelson, owner and operator of Happy Flappy Farm, in Madison, AL—thanks to her stepson for the catchy name! Kamilla was born in Denmark, however at one week old her parents moved to AL. She grew up in Huntsville and Madison, AL, where she...
Friday-Saturday December 7-8, 2018 (Pre-Forum session Thurs Dec 6) Camp McDowell Nauvoo, AL QUICK LINKS: (see details under the respective headers below) Registration form (all ages) Lodging reservation form Youth Forum additional required forms, in DOCX format (click...
Graze: Birmingham is a farm-to-fork picnic in which attendees “graze” on a wide variety of dishes, each produced by a different local farmer + local restaurant pair. Add in some picnic blankets, live music, and delicious local beverages… and it’s a picnic you don’t...
Marilyn is originally from Alabama -- she grew up in Fairhope where she currently resides. Her parents, who also grew up in Fairhope, were influenced by the Utopian vision of its founders. They were also very influenced by their education at the Marietta Johnson...
For those of you who attended our 2017 Food & Farm Forum, you may recall seeing beautiful, enormous bulbs of garlic during our market night, they were quite a hit! Those beauties were from Martha and Paul’s Farm, Viperville Vegetable Farm, located in Atmore, AL....
Jan and Rinske de Jong bid farewell to their native home, the Netherlands to seek new opportunities in the United States. Leaving friends and family in Holland, they were guided by a passion and a dream of starting a dairy of their own. Working Cows Dairy was...
Born in California and raised in Texas, Kristin Woods made her arrival in the southeast US in 1999 after landing a job as Process Development Scientist for Wayne Farms in Georgia, advising how to modify equipment in order to improve yield. Shortly after, in 2003 she...