Each week in Kickstarter Love, Feed52 will feature a Kickstarter project that focuses on food and the community. Basically, it’s about cool people doing cool things with food. This week, a family farm wants to add homemade goods to their offerings.

Every week our friends at Real Time Farms feature the top photos of farms, food artisans, and farmers markets shared on their site.

Onions may not be the item that make you eagerly anticipate market day, but when they can be coaxed into something as delicious as Merrill's Red Onion Jam, they just might get added to your regular shopping list. These beauties from Shamba Farms are basking in the sunshine at the West End Farmers' Market in Alexandria, Virginia. Whether red or white, in a jam or a tart, it's clear that onions deserve their day in the sun. Click here to see more, and then add a photo of your own - you might be featured here next week!

Memories of apple-picking come in silent vignettes for me, flashes of rural orchards and empty bushels and testing the strength of my 12-year-old forearms, a little fog for dramatic effect. 

Each week in Kickstarter Love, Feed52 features a Kickstarter project that focuses on food and the community. Basically, it’s about cool people doing cool things with food. This week, it’s a small business championing their local food system.

It’s a big fall for home cooks. With slews of new cookbook releases, we’ll be cooking -- and stocking our bookshelves -- long after the winter is over. 

Every week our friends at Real Time Farms feature the top photos of farms, food artisans, and farmers markets shared on their site.

What's all good? Marybeth Otte's farm, that's what. Her hens are pasture-raised, and their diet is supplemented with organic feed and leftover produce from nearby farms. Marybeth believes her farming techniques are good for her "girls," good for the environment, and good for her customers. Consequently, her Oswego, Illinois farm was named, "It's All Good." Click here to see more, and then add a photo of your own - you might be featured here next week!

Every Friday, and sometimes on Thursdays, we’re mixing things up with a different kind of food writing. More specifically, food poetry to be read slowly, over your morning coffee. Today, a little fun with meter and marshmallow-toasting.

Each week in Kickstarter Love, Feed52 will feature a Kickstarter project that focuses on food and the community. Basically, it’s about cool people doing cool things with food. This week, a goat dairy could be a tool for economic and youth development.

Every week our friends at Real Time Farms feature the top photos of farms, food artisans, and farmers markets shared on their site.

Farmer Steven Tomlinson cradles an armfull of freshly dug turnips on his farm in Skillman, New Jersey.  Also an independent artist and designer, Tomlinson describes the photo as, "...trying to cature the human element in food production. It is important for people to know how much work is involved in small scale agriculture. So, when selling a bunch of turnips for $3.50 at the market, that is actually a bargain for fresh local food. Food needs to be valued more evenly."  Click here to see more, and then add a photo of your own - you might be featured here next week!

Every Friday, we’re mixing things up with a different kind of food writing. More specifically, food poetry to be read slowly, over your morning coffee. This week, a summer fruit we can still get our hands on.