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Hi Everyone-<br />
Guess what? We entered a contest for green entrepreneurship that will award us $25,000 if we win first prize. To get to the level where we are judged we need your help.<br />
Here's how-<br />
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Bookmark this URL--<a href="https://www.thegreenawards.com/Default.aspx?v=105">https://www.thegreena... />
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Open it every day and vote between now and March 27 and vote (you'll see a white screen before it starts loading).</li>
We recently posted this as a question, but have decided to repost as a new message... We are working on a proposal for the Stinner Endowment. The project is fairly broad, covering several social issues, and, appropriately, seeking funding from a wide range of sources, and collaboration from a wide-ranging network. Here’s the synopsis, after which I will write the question we have for everybody to give input on:
Our 2007 NCR-SARE farmer grant to test various staple crops in Appalachian Ohio, has garnered considerable interest in locally procured staple foods among food outlets and consumers, and several new and seasoned farmers are eager to form a staple growers’ cooperative.
This is a revision, in response to the very helpful comments on the proposal in the blog entitled, "Providing Infrastructure for Farmers in Appalachian Ohio to Meet the Demand for Locally Procured Staple Foods".
We just received word from the Ohio Farm Bureau Foundation that we will be receiving another 3 thousand dollars from them for the Staple Foods Project in Southeastern Ohio.
This support will be used to help in the post-harvest phases (storing, dehulling, milling, packing, labeling, etc.) for the crop that will produced and harvested on Kip and Becky Rondy's Green Edge Organic Gardens in Amesville Ohio (OLFSC members), in 2009, with the support of Stinner Endowment funding.
Kellogg funded this on-line course about how to frame the work of promoting local food systems. It's a commitment to sit through, but there are some key findings in the research that can inform how we talk/write/communicate about the benefits of local systems and the consequences of the mega systems that dominate our food sources. Check it out at---http://www.hollyworks.com/frameworks/course/
Since most of you are around the state or even in other states, we wanted to post our press release about grants we received to study public land use and staple food system needs in our region. I've pasted in the release as it went out to local papers yesterday...