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See the following links to learn more about local foods. The most recent articles are at the top of the list.
- Where the Wild Food Grows
- Local Food, Farms and & Jobs: Growing the Illinois Economy
- Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Establishes First USDA Volunteer Program For The People's Garden Initiative
- Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food
- Lincoln Community Correctional Center's Garden
- Have a Laugh....Unusual Cattle Roundup
Watch a pig herd the cows!
- Locally killed is latest trend in high grade meat
Soaring interest in meat from free-roaming cattle and more than $180,000 in government grants helped give ranchers in the remote area the momentum to get the mobile unit on the road and cut out the middlemen between farms and shoppers....
- Wisconsin Local Foods Network
Local Food in the News
June 16, 2009. Begin Your Farmer Chef Card Collection at this Saturday's Dane County
Farmers Market. Madison, WI. "REAP Food Group thinks local farmers and the chefs who cook with their food deserve sports star status. REAP’s Buy Fresh Buy Local Southern Wisconsin (BFBL) program is releasing a beautiful 20-edition set of baseball-style cards in local restaurants throughout the summer. ...(Read More)
- Label Overload?
You think food labels are already cluttered with nutrition symbols? Things could get more confusing as supermarkets start adding their own scores, shelf tags and symbols to the mix. (Read More)
- 'Natural' grocers promoting local foods
LAKEWOOD, Colo. -- The 113-year-old Morning Fresh Dairy Farm didn't even use barcodes on its bottles when a Whole Foods Market in Fort Collins, Colo., asked about offering the dairy's all-natural milk.
Dairy general manager Matt Lucas began bringing the glass bottles himself from the Morning Fresh farm in Bellevue, Colo., 60 miles north of Denver. Until then, Morning Fresh had long made its name on home deliveries.
(Read More)
- Natures Companion Newsletter
