What creates a community? Why does a person choose to live, work, visit, or leave a place? These are complicated questions with many different answers--especially today, in the age of a pandemic.

Local food systems are more important now than ever. The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted lives and livelihoods, revealing some vulnerabilities in our nation’s food supply chain. Numerous meat-packing facilities were forced to close their doors as the virus spread in crowded working conditions.

Before Tiger King, there was the Great St. Louis Bagel Scandal. You remember: internet fury was unleashed on the St. Louis region in 2019 over an image of bagels sliced like bread. During the Bagel Scandal, the idea of actually making a homemade bagel was just a twinkle in my eye.