"Chef and owner Mike Davis opened Terra in West Columbia in 2006. Back then few of Columbia's independent restaurants listed ingredients from local farms on their menus. The idea of being concerned about food origins was still relatively new here. It would be another year before the Columbia chapter of the Slow Food USA movement would be established in 2007, and a couple of years after that when City Roots would have its groundbreaking ceremony in 2009. ..." - Jonathan Sharpe For more, check out the rest of the article on page 18 of Jasper here: