By Diane Herbst | Thursday, July 15, 2010 8:30 AM ET
It all began in third grade, when Katie Stagliano’s 40-pound cabbage fed 275 homeless people. Now, Katie’s six gardens have produced over 4,000 pounds of vegetables to feed the needy.
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“Produce for the People” <http://www.justmeans.com/Produce-For-People-Local-Healthy-Food-for-Local-Hungry/17908.html>
There’s no doubt that we live in a land of plenty, and across the country people are coming up with new ways to share the bounty with local food banks and folks who are hungry. More and more that bounty consists of local food grown in community and [...] post by Paul LeVasseur, June 15, 2010 ____________________________________________________________________________ When Howie Prussack, Putney farmer, stated at Transition Putney’s Local Foods, Local Farms symposium in February that he wanted to see the two-acre field across from the Putney Coop become a community garden, people clapped and cheered. That dream is now a reality. The Gateway Group that owns the field [...] Rural Vermont and the Farm to consumer Legal Defense Fund have shared this: CONTACT YOUR VERMONT SENATOR AND ASK THEM TO SUPPORT S.295! This bill (formerly H.767) is the result of the hard work performed by the house and senate agriculture committees that improved the language in the amendments that were attached to H.767 by the [...] Geographic preference option for the procurement of unprocessed agricultural products in Child Nutrition Programs The 2008 Farm Bill amended the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to direct that the Secretary of Agriculture encourage institutions operating Child Nutrition Programs to purchase unprocessed locally grown and locally [...] Local Foods Meal For Meeting If it’s your job to plan the meeting, and you want the food to come from local farms, how do you start? First, plan the menu. Be flexible in what to serve: it’s best to offer food available in the current season. (Vital Communities staff can help with this. For example, summer is [...] |
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FDA Steps up Enforcement Against Raw Milk
Excerpt from Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund “Action Alert”:
For more information, see the website
RAW MILK & YOUR FREEDOM OF FOOD CHOICE
Raw milk is at the heart of the battle for food freedom. The key to securing the right to obtain raw milk from the source of choice is to overturn the federal ban; without the ban, [...]
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