Editorial

This issue of Southern Soil has a little bit of a feel of harkening back to the days of yore! Take a glimpse at 19th century America with neighborhood butcher shops and local markets selling foods grown, caught, gathered, baked and cooked fresh by people living and working in your own community.

In a world where global markets dominate and the food on your table could have come from the other side of the world and been shelved in cold storage for months, is it possible to even imagine such a thing? Much less, actually see a resurgence?

Why, yes! It is possible. And it’s happening. Thanks to people with the vision and the passion to help restore our local food systems and bring back neighborhood markets and butcher shops.

Here at Southern Soil, we have a BIG announcement!

We’re launching a podcast! The Southern Soil Podcast will get started with 12 weekly episodes in the inaugural season. Each episode will include conversations and stories about local food, of course! Our podcast will include conversations with people within and beyond our usual coverage area and broaden our ability to cover multiple topics.

I’m really excited about this new venture because for the past three years, I have been having fun and interesting conversations with so many people involved in our local food systems. I think that the podcast will be a great way to start to share those kinds of conversations beyond the stories we create for the magazine.

Additionally, it will provide an opportunity to present some of the content from the magazine in a different format that may be more accessible and preferable to some of our current audience and will hopefully connect us with a broader audience as well!

As with every aspect of the Southern Soil platform, our goal will be to encourage, inform and entertain!

As we move through this process and get closer to launching our first episode, we’ll be keeping everyone posted. So, be sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram and head over to our website to sign up for our newsletter if you haven’t already!

Let’s grow together!

LEEANNA TATUM, Editor