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Buying and Eating Local Food will • improve your health • delight your taste buds • stretch your food budget • increase income in your community • preserve farmland; and • make you new friends Growing and eating local food is important work.
The Bentryn’s story illustrates a lot about local food that is so valuable about local food and our communities and highlights two of the highest hurdles to success in the effort to make growing and eating local food mainstream: farmland preservation and farmer succession.
Many farmers and ranchers are pretty good marketers in their own right but probably the majority are not. Most good folks attracted to farming do not focus on marketing and the consumer experience even though the quality of what they produce is usually higher with a superior nutritional c...
Port Orchard Farmers Market To Open April 25th With spring right around the corner, it’s not too early for customers and vendors to start thinking about farmers markets. Kitsap County’s oldest farmers market, with 31 years under its belt, is the Port Orchard Farmers Market and it’s annou...
Two bills that are against locally grown food have been prepared by big ag and are now in the hopper for this session of Congress. However, Agriculture Schrome://cooliris/skin/new/mouseover.pngec. Vilsack announcing that Kathleen Merrigan, the person who drafted Organic Foods Produ...
The market for local food is growing. The number of farmers markets in Illinois grew from 97 in 1999 to 270 in 2008. The number of community-supported agriculture organizations, which allow consumers to subscribe to a variety of Illinois-grown food products throughout the season, grew f...
Kingston, WA – March 11, 2009 – CB’s Nuts announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved the locally-owned, small batch roaster’s Kingston, Washington production process and facility for organic certification.
Growing and eating local food is good for your health. Supporting local farmers to take care of the land is good for the environment. We have produced several articles on this blog making the case that buying and eating local food is good for the economy.
Growing and eating local food is a cultural activity, a chance for people to get together, take ‘er slow and get to know one another, savor the food. Jeff and Jocelyn Waite of the Harbour Pub do a great job every night in providing great food and a warm place to eat it with friends and family. They...
Next came his foray into Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). He’s now entering his fourth season offering CSAs. He started with six shares, grew to 12 and is now offering 20 shares this year. Gregory says his mother originally helped him with some of the work but she’s now in her eighti...
We are promoting Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and hope to encourage more consumers to buy local produce from farms offering CSA farm shares. And, by building interest in CSAs we are encouraging more farmers to grow and offer them. This all done by our volunteer members. They are co...
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