The Market at 25th brought nutritional grocery shopping back to Church Hill after the neighborhood’s lack of options left it a certified food desert for over 20 years. After surviving a pandemic and a river of red ink, the Market has earned the most important thing of all—the trust of the community. By Mary Read more about The Currency of Trust[…]
Growing Sustainable Futures: the Micro-Farm at the University of Richmond’s Business School By Claire Le Du Collaborating with the company Babylon, students at the University of Richmond started a small farm in a corner of Robins Business School this January. It’s remarkable to consider that growing food in a business school was feasible, yet Read more about Micro-Farm[…]
Herman “Big Herm” Baskerville himself. (Photo by Aidan Lubin.) By Aidan Lubin and Logan Jones-Wilkins Herman Baskerville, the man who puts the “Herm” in Big Herm’s Kitchen in Jackson Ward, gave up his chance for a steady paycheck years ago. He found something more meaningful. Big Herm, as he is called by many in his Read more about The Herman Connection[…]
The COO of The Market at 25th stepped down from his district manager position at The Kroger Company to return to the neighborhood where it all began. By Mary Margaret Clouse As Jae Scott walks through The Market at 25th, he greets customers and employees alike with a hello and a handshake. For nearly Read more about Full Circle[…]
By Bettina Johnston and Logan Jones-Wilkins The West End of Richmond is nobody’s idea of a food desert. And Libbie Mill, a newly minted townhouse complex in the heart of the West End, is one of those upscale suburban town centers that are springing up on the periphery of cities all over America. No one Read more about Farm Bus[…]