Posts Tagged ‘Local Food Economy’
Farm To Fork and the Local Food Economy
As a new USDA report documents for the first time the economic value of the local food economy, a local organization helps build deeper connections around local food.
Willem and Drees: Local for Local Distribution
September 19, 2011 After discovering “fruits & vegetables are transported around the Globe and purchasing an apple grown around the corner in a local supermarket is impossible”, Willem Treep and Drees Peter van den Bosch (of the Netherlands) got together to come up with an idea on how to get locally grown produce into local [...]
Farm Loop Tour: Connecting with your Local Farming Community (video)
The Molalla Country farm loop tour is open year round to the public, and offers a wide diversity of farms to visit, sample products, and meet the farmers.
The Unconventional Harvest: Melstone, Montana—Population 136
In a land where people wore jeans, boots, and rancher hats all year round – I stuck out like a sore thumb. And I didn’t give a damn.
Discovering Farmers Markets Wherever You Are
August 12, 2011 Two things came together and made a splash: data and love for good food! Last year the USDA launched a new mapping feature for their National Farmers Market Directory and access to raw data for “app designers and researchers to develop even more sophisticated or fine-tuned uses of the USDA Farmers Market [...]
Jubilant New Orleans Jazz Urban Agriculture Community (video)
New Orleans may not be known for its healthy food habits, but thats about to change.
Community Digs in to Help Local Farm and Eatery
June 03, 2011 Dava Parr, owner of Fresh & Wyld Farmhouse Inn, a small local business in Paonia, Colorado, was facing a balloon payment she could not make and recently reached out to the community for support, and found it. One such person who stepped forward to help out was High Country News managing editor, [...]
Hope Butter—Making Butter the Traditional Way
One of the only independent creameries in Minnesota, Hope Butter, is a century old business that continues to make butter the old-fashioned way. There have been strong years and slow years, but the last 10 have been increasingly successful. Featured at many of the top restaurants, at the Co-ops as well as in regular grocery [...]


