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Local Food - All Year a Workshop for People Who Want to Make it Happen
Submitted by Megan Shoenfelt on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 11:54amslight correction: is there a difference between wanting to see something happen or making something happen?
The official name for this Workshop is
LOCAL FOOD-ALL YEAR, a Workshop for People Who Want to Make it Happen!
Save the Date Local Food-All Year, a Workshop for People Who Want to See it Happen
Save the Date
Local Food-All Year a Workshop for People Who Want to See it Happen Friday, April 16, 2010 8:30 to 4:30 Ohio Department of AgricultureThe 3rd Annual Stinner Summit
Submitted by Megan Shoenfelt on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 1:03pmThanks to all who attended the chilly but very productive 3rd Annual Stinner Summit held October 16th at the Malabar Farm State Park. An exciting project was selected to receive support from The Ben Stinner Endowment for Healthy Agroecosystems and Sustainable Communties. The project will focus on Facilitating Year Round Local Food Systems by bringing together experts and existing groups currently involved with successful year round growing to share information at a day long conference.
Poultry Processing Work Group - Scheduled for Oct 1 at ODA
A meeting has been scheduled for Thursday afternoon, October 1st from 1 to 2pm at Ohio Dept of Agriculture to discuss various grant possibilities for a MPU project with USDA rep Deb Rausch. Amalie Lipstreu with ODA, has organized the meeting so members of the poultry processing work group - and anyone else having an interest in the development of additional processing capacity - can discuss the opportunities.
New Business Venture for Kosher Poultry in Cleveland
I wanted to forward this article about "The Green Taam" to the meat processing and other working groups of Local Food Systems. Amalia and Ariella participated in many of the Mobile Processing Unit (MPU) meetings and discusions which were held at OARDC this past year. The Cleveland Jewish News featured their new enterprise in a recent edition.
Notes from recent Poultry Processing Planning Session
A meeting was held February 11, 2009 to continue the planning for a mobile poultry processing unit here in Ohio. The meeting notes are attached.
John Anderson, from the Animal Science dept here at OARDC forwarded this notice about an upcoming webinar sponsored by Penn State:
Leap into Local Foods Workshop Summary
Submitted by Megan Shoenfelt on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 11:58amThis contains the PDF file for the LLF workshop. Please login if you haven't already and click on the pdf file link below to access the newsletter.
