“Listen. Hear that,” he says after about eight minutes. He points out “first crack,” which is the initial crackling of the beans’ shells, an audio mark of the first stage of the roast that signals moisture leaving the bean. The beans are now the color of caramel.

I could taste the fresh tomatoes, and the garlic balanced it out perfectly. All of the ingredients were from either the Five Points Farm Market or the gardens out back.

Making stock is the easiest thing to do. I now know this.

With an ever-changing city like Norfolk, I’m not sure this guide will ever be complete. But then again, isn’t that what makes a city great?

A discussion about community gardens in Norfolk is taking place tonight at Five Points Community Farm Market @ 6pm. If you’ve never eaten something straight from the land, you are morally obliged to attend.

I’m sad and a little confused to report how the Norfolk City Council voted this evening—with Mayor Paul Fraim casting the deciding “nay”—to not grant the Five Points Community Farm Market the special exemption ABC license it needs to sell Virginia-made wine and beers. The market was asking so it could sell room-temperature Virginia-produced craft [...]