The work here has attracted some attention and resulted in numerous speaking engagements, including a talk on the role our food plays in the big energy picture.  This New Energy Future conference at the University of Virginia was sponsored by the Sierra Club, the People’s Alliance for Clean Energy and UVA.  Most recently, I spoke at Virginia State University’s Small Farm Family Conference on wholesale marketing, particularly to restaurants.

Epic Gardens has garnered some press this past year, too. 

Sustainability as a Way of Life  is the title of an article in the Sunday, April 26 Richmond Times Dispatch.  They wrote about Epic Gardens as part of a series about the decline in farm land in Virginia and sustaining the family farm.  Here’s the link:  http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/business/agriculture/article/FARMS126_20090425-232405/264045  Be sure to click on the slide show (short and somewhat amusing as Red Wing interjects crows and clucks into the conversation). Check out the rest of the articles about this timely topic which were published that same day.

http://www.richmondmagazine.com/dine/blogs.php?blogID=4c153707b27b3e565c412c0233042a47  will lead you to an entertaining article entitled Sweet Love for Bitter Melon about the Bitter Melon, of all things.  Epic Gardens assisted VSU with test marketing some of their international fare, including this Asian dietary delight, as well as Jute of Molokhia, long beans, lemongrass and high tunnel grown raspberries.

We continue to build relationships with work with fine local restaurants and retailers, including Fall Line Farms, Good Foods Grocery and Ellwood Thompson's Local Market, while expanding the supply to meet the ever growing demand at farmers markets.