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. He is editor of Edible East End, and publisher of Edible Brooklyn and Edible Manhattan. He writes from his home in Sag Harbor, New York, where he and his wife tend a home garden and orchard.