The following article, “How Do Baby Carrots Come to Be?” was written by Karen Karp and published in Food+City magazine. As you may have suspected, baby carrots are not really babies. Baby carrots, more accurately called baby-cut carrots (as a true “baby carrot” is simply an immature carrot), are a relatively recent innovation, dating back only...

How did you first become connected to the world of food systems? I always had a fascination with how restaurants work. I got a job assisting a bookkeeper at a seafood restaurant in high school and loved everything about it. When I left my hometown of Islip, Long Island, and went to New York City...

As you will have noticed if you are reading this on our new website, Karp Resources has changed its name to Karen Karp & Partners, or KK&P for short. The decision to change the firm’s name is the fitting conclusion to a recent review of our brand and clarification of our mission. One thing we...

The Town Talk in Central Louisiana reports on a recent discussion among more than a dozen stakeholders interested in increasing the productivity and profit of locally grown food who gathered for the first part of a study to identify specific tools that can be developed to boost the local food economy. The effort is being...

Karen Karp & Partners has been working with NorthWest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville, Arkansas, since 2013 to develop and implement a Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management (CAHM) program, funded by grants from the Walton Family Foundation totaling more than $8 million. Among the services provided, KK&P looked at current and projected food and hospitality...

Karen Karp, founder and president of Karen Karp & Partners, was interviewed for a short film called “Farm Bill: No Food Aid, No Problem?” for the InsideOut PTV network. In the film, Karen discusses the decision by the US House of Representatives to pass a version of the new farm bill that excludes the food...

Karen Karp & Partners is proud once again to be co-producing the annual James Beard Foundation Food Conference, taking place this year at the Convene Conference Center in Manhattan on October 19 & 20, 2015. This year’s theme is Rethinking the Future of Food. We will look at what’s in front of us through three powerful lenses: the future of the...

“The Middlemen,” the seventh episode of “How Great Cities Are Fed,” a monthly talk show about urban food systems, hosted by Karen Karp & Partners founder/president Karen Karp with Ben Kerrick and airing on the Heritage Radio Network, focuses on the role of the middlemen in food distribution, and is now available for streaming or...

For the past decade, Karen Karp & Partners has enjoyed a working partnership with City Harvest, helping the hunger organization with program development and evaluation; sourcing; organizational redesign, recruiting and executive coaching; and research and assessment. This year, KK&P has been working with the organization on the inaugural City Harvest Leadership Summit, which takes place on Monday, November...

A couple of weeks ago I traveled to California for a combination of work and family activities. It was the first multiple-day trip since the reboot began, and I was interested to see how I could hold things—anything—up while on the road. Bookends of this trip were a few days at my sister Debra’s house...