Jewish celebrants embrace eco-friendly foods

WASHINGTON — Many of Maryland's Jewish residents are keeping kosher and keeping up with the latest food trend this High Holiday season --buying eco-friendly, organic and locally grown kosher staples, a movement some are calling 'eco-kosher.'

Last year, Silver Spring resident Devora Kimelman-Block started Kosher Organic-raised Local Foods, or KOL Foods, a meat distribution service that sells kosher, organic and locally raised beef and lamb in bulk.

Kimelman-Block's customers are part of a growing breed: ecologically aware, health-conscious consumers willing to use their free time to peruse weekends-only farmers' markets,...