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About Brian Halweil

The publisher of Edible Manhattan and the editor of Edible East End, Brian Halweil has been at the forefront of the growing "eat local" movement. As a student at Stanford University, Brian worked with California farmers interested in reducing their pesticide use, and set up a two-acre student-run organic farm on the Stanford campus. In 1997, he joined Worldwatch Institute as a Senior Researcher and John Gardner Public Service Fellow. At the Institute, Brian writes on the social and ecological impacts of how we grow food, focusing recently on organic farming, biotechnology, hunger and rural communities. He describes the evolving local food movement in his recent book Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket. Brian's work has also been featured in the international press, and he has testified before the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the role of biotechnology in combating poverty and hunger in the developing world. He has traveled throughout Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and East Africa learning indigenous farming techniques and promoting sustainable food production. He works on Edible East End and other Edible publications from his home in Sag Harbor, New York, where he and his wife tend a home garden and orchard.

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