This locavores thing is really catching on but at the same time, most farmers don't have the luxury of time to spend hours at a Farmers market, peddling their products. What's needed are smarter ways to connect the suppliers/producers with their customers. Casey Hoy's ant colony study keeps coming to my mind and with all these new technologies/softwares for communicating with each other, there must be a way. My wife and I have become connected to Tina Wagner and Brad Masi's City Fresh program this year.
Crossroads RC&D, Tuscarwas County CVB, Farm Bureau, and local Chamber are pulling together a local network to enhance agribusinsess development, local food connections, and consumer services. The planning committee is meeting Jan 6 in Dover, to plan for networking, project idea generation meeting that will be held in Feb. If you are interested, email me and i will get you on the invite list!
Deleware Valley Regional Planning Commission released its greater Philadelphia food study today. Its very well written and produced. Now they are on to future planning from the study.
The Northern Ohio Center for Coperative Ownership at Kent State University is hosting a Cooperative Development Forum at the Akron Fairlawn Hilton on Thursday, April 29th from 1:00 to 5:30 pm.
We have organizations that support the local food movement highlighted in the states where they volunteer one hour per month to act as state admin. Would http://localfoodsystems.org like the honor of Ohio?