The Neighboring Food Coop Association is working in collaboration with family farmers, farmer co-ops such as Deep Root Organic Co-op and the Pioneer Valley Growers Association, and processors including Farm to Table Co-Packers, the Vermont Food Venture Center and Green Mountain College’s Mobile Flash Freezer, to pilot products that are grown, processed and packaged right [...]
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From Mark Bittman at the New York Times: You might think it would be difficult to find a cheerful and optimistic farmer the year a hurricane wiped out most of the crop, but I did so in Burlington, Vt., the day after Thanksgiving. I was visiting the Intervale Center, a nonprofit that manages a 350-plus-acre flood plain [...] By Jill Richardson from Alternet.org: It’s become predictable. At nearly regular intervals, someone, somewhere, will decide it’s time to write another article “debunking” the local food movement. The latest installment is by Steve Sexton, posted on the Freakonomics blog (which also treated us to a previous post called “Do We Really Need a Few Billion Locavores?“) And we [...] From the Associated Press: ST. LOUIS – Carolyn Anderson likes to chat up the growers at her local farmers market in Missouri, at times hanging out behind the beds of pickup trucks brimming with ears of corn. For Anderson, 29, it’s all about keeping it “local.” And there’s fresh evidence of just how big of a deal [...] A Comparison of Farmers Markets and Supermarkets in Nineteen Communities in the Southeast A study from SCALE, Inc. (Sequestering Carbon, Accelerating Local Economies) suggests that local farmers’ markets may be cheaper than supermarkets: “The ‘local foods movement’ has been growing rapidly for the past decade or more, reaching communities in nearly every part of the United States. [...] Vermont Refrigerated Storage (the former Shoreham Apple Cooperative) is currently assessing opportunities to expand into the following sectors: Value-added apple products – ice cider, apple sauce, and a pie mix The Yourfarmstand.com team is reaching out to farmers, customers and market facilitators interested in developing an online farmers’ market for their community. Yourfarmstand.com is an online market started in 2010 by a group of farmers based in Charlotte, VT. Inspired to increase access to and demand for fresh local food, the group developed a website that [...] From Rural Vermont: Since the founding of Vermont in 1777, the tradition of local agriculture has been a mainstay that has supported generations of Vermont farmers and communities. Long before multi-national companies shipped tomatoes and lettuce from as far as California, Mexico or Asia, Vermonters employed a food system that was based on community and intimate [...] REGIONAL FOOD CENTERS: FROM TALK TO ACTION. Important community meetings to take place this fall! THE FOUR RIVERS FOOD CENTER PROJECT is a coalition of groups in southern Orange and northern Windsor counties, working to make local food networks a reality. We need your help! Regional Food Centers are working combinations of people and facilities. Their function is to [...] Hello to all, The Perfect Pear Cafe and Vermont Beer Company will be celebrating our first Oktoberfest Weekend September 29, 30, and October 1. We will also [...] |
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