By Tricycle Gardens Farm Manager, Soizic Ziegler There are so many reasons to grow one’s own food: taste, freshness, cost, curiosity, connection to nature and life cycles, availability of ingredients- the list goes on. However, the image of the rolling farm or sprawling garden often keeps urban would- be gardeners from getting started. Joyfully, there […]
What if you could drive just 10 minutes from Downtown Richmond and enter a vast 30 acre organic farm and learning center just ready for the picking? That’s exactly what Sean Sheppard has thought about for years, and now his dream is coming true. Sean and his business partners – Tim Adkins, Clark Lovelady and […]
In August of 2012, the Newsweek Gallup Poll – Daily Beast named Richmond, Virginia the second fattest city in the United States. Virginia’s obesity rates are steadily climbing ahead of most of the country, with a current rate of 29.2%(2011). This rate is higher than the national average of 27.8%. The rates will soar and adult obesity will burden […]
