Tag: Local food

  • ACTION ALERT

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    Deadline November 15: Protect Your Local Food Sources! We’ve been warned. Over and over again. By the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). By the John Hopkins’ Center for a Livable Future (CLF). Industrial agriculture is killing the planet and making us sick. So how has the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) responded to these warnings?…

  • Seed Grants Available for Co-ops

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    WBEX announces the availability of grants to anyone interested in forming or expanding a co-operative: The Ohio Cooperative Development Center (OCDC) at The Ohio State University South Centers is offering reimbursement seed grants to groups interested in exploring or growing a cooperative. Cooperatives are legal businesses that form when members of the group can do…

  • VEGGIE cooperative established to mitigate effects of BP oil spill on Vietnamese community in New Orleans

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    VEGGI Farmer’s Cooperative is comprised of local farmers and fisherfolk dedicated to providing the highest quality local produce and seafood to the Greater New Orleans area and beyond. VEGGI Farmers Cooperative was established following the effects of the BP oil spill on the Vietnamese community in New Orleans. With many community members losing their jobs…

  • Food Hubs – The Key to Expanding Regional Food Systems

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    It was 2004, and the re-emergence of local and regional food systems was still relatively novel across the nation—perhaps especially in the Southeast United States (despite the fact that until the last half-century, local and regional food was all there was). And yet it was in Durham, N.C., that some industrious individuals, with the help…