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Local Food Hub Brings It All Together

December 15, 2010 Luke Knowles, Assistant to the Under Secretary, Marketing and Regulatory Programs

A core component of any food hub is making sure that products can get from the farm to the table, a complex task involving perishable goods, cold storage, varying scales of supply and demand, and, of course, the occasional flat tire. A number of food hubs have taken this challenge on utilizing...

Food and Nutrition Farming

Getting to Scale with Regional Food Hubs

December 14, 2010 Jim Barham, Food Hub Team Leader, Agricultural Marketing Service

Here at USDA we are looking for ways that we can help build and strengthen regional and local food systems. As we talk to farmers, producers, consumers, processors, retailers, buyers and everyone else involved in regional food system development, we hear more and more about small and mid-sized...

Food and Nutrition Farming

Hillside Farmers Co-op Awarded Grant to Develop Latino-Owned Poultry Production

December 10, 2010 Adam Czech, Public Information Coordinator, Minnesota Rural Development

The Hillside Farmers Co-op has some big goals for Latino farmers in southeastern Minnesota. With the help of a Small, Socially Disadvantaged Producer Grant (SSDPG) from USDA’s Rural Development, Hillside Farmers Co-op has taken another step toward reaching some of those goals.

Food and Nutrition Farming Rural

Thanksgiving

December 08, 2010 Kathleen Merrigan, Deputy Secretary

My family spent Thanksgiving morning at the D.C. Central Kitchen, where we helped prepare dinners for the homeless and needy in our nation’s capitol. While some might describe our act as ‘giving to others,’ truth is that it was a gift to us. I want my children, aged 10 and 11, to understand that not...

Conservation Food and Nutrition Farming

North Carolina Builds Its Local Food Economy

December 06, 2010 Jill Auburn, Office of the Chief Scientist and Research, Education and Economics Mission Area

A team of industry and university leaders from North Carolina visited USDA recently to tell us about their work in building a stronger statewide local food system. Nancy Creamer of North Carolina State University, John O’Sullivan and Shorlette Ammons of North Carolina A&T State University, and...

Food and Nutrition Farming

Aquaculture systems Help Southwest Iowa Producers Meet the Growing Demand for Local Foods

November 30, 2010 Bill Menner, USDA Rural Development State Director in Iowa

It has been more than a year since Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan announced the Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Initiative to encourage conversations about local food systems. In that time, the initiative has strengthened the local foods movement that was...

Food and Nutrition Farming Rural

Conservation Partnership Helps Family Farm Thrive

November 22, 2010 Kip Kolesinskas, State Soil Scientist, Connecticut, Natural Resources Conservation Service

Allen and Becky Clark have been farming for 17 years. When they started their small business, they grew flowers, pumpkins and corn stalks. Four years ago, they began raising goats for milk and cheese and eventually started making soap as well. The Clarks had long wanted to expand their farm but...

Conservation Food and Nutrition Farming

Connecting Children to Food and Farming: Agriculture in the Classroom

November 15, 2010 Al Withers, Program Director, Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom and Ray A. Ali, Ed.D., National Program Leader, Agriculture in the Classroom, NIFA

As the population of the United States has transitioned from a predominantly agrarian society to an increasingly more urban one, our youth have become detached from a fundamental understanding of agriculture. Nonetheless, we benefit from the innovations and efficiencies of our food supply on a daily...

Initiatives Food and Nutrition Farming

Kentucky FarmStart Program Bringing Fresh Faces to Agriculture

November 08, 2010 Sivapathasun Sureshwaran, National Institute of Food and Agriculture and Lee Meyer, University of Kentucky

When Denise Hamilton and her husband retire from their careers as teachers at West Jessamine County High School in Nicholasville, Kentucky, they plan to move to their new farm in Garrard County and supplement their retirement income by growing pasture-raised beef and organic vegetables. “We just...

Initiatives Food and Nutrition Farming

Saving Rural America, Starting in Winston County

November 05, 2010 Cheryl Cook, Deputy Undersecretary, Rural Development

The people of Winston County, Mississippi faced many of the same problems as other rural communities across the nation: declining population, rising prices, and family farmers in need of capital, business tools, and new markets for their products. But they were determined to overcome these...

Food and Nutrition Farming

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