During the January 11th Ag-Bio Cluster Leadership Council (LC) meeting, members posed a series of key questions as topics for subsequent postings and online discussions in preparation for their next meeting on February 8th.  The first question concerned local / county stakeholder meetings currently underway within the 16-county Northeast Ohio region, namely, what does the LC want from the stakeholder sessions and what can attendees expect from their participation?

 

The October 24th edition of the Denver Post featured an article entitled, "Agriburbia" sprouts on Colorado's Front Range.  It is about Matthew "Quint" Redmond, co-founder of the TSR Group in Golden, CO, and his concept to integrate food production operations within existing neighborhoods and planned communities in order to supply local residents and restaurants with seasonal fresh food.  His bold agenda for urban farming encompasses the con

    You could call Kwodwo Ababio a lot of things: friendly, a great cook, active in the local food movement, passionate about the future of Linden.  Just don’t call him a community activist.  “I’m not a community activist, I’m just active in my community,” Ababio stressed during a meeting at New Harvest Café.  “I’m an artist, and the community is my canvas.”

What's in a Word?

Currently, there are over 320 members of the LocalFoodSystems.org network and the number keeps growing!  Along with increasing membership comes an even wider readership by those who visit the site to catch-up on current postings or see what calendar events are going on, but not necessarily to join.  No matter what people do when they come to the site, it is evident that what brought them to it, in part, is a shared interest in what's happening within the local foods movement.

Greg Boulos of http://pasa.org passed this on yesterday:

 

http://www.veggietrader.com/

 

"What is it?

Participation in Local Food Systems



Numerous references are made in the USDA-SCRI grant to networking and
collaboration--the ability to communicate with anyone, anywhere, at
anytime and work effectively together on activities of mutual
interest.  These social behaviors are essential to the development of
local food systems and their logical extension to local and regional

Survey: Majority buy from local farmers

By Howard J. Siegrist • January 1, 2009

In 2008, Ohioans continued to support local food systems, with the number reporting "frequently" buying locally grown or produced foods remaining steady since 2006.

That's according to the 2008 Ohio Survey of Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Issues, a mail survey conducted earlier this year by Ohio State University's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.