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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] LOCALLY GROWN was CSA ...
  • Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:51:27 -0400

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:10:58 -0700, you wrote:

>I attended an event discussing local food with Dr. John Ikerd. He was a
>very evangelical speaker. Some of his writings can be found at
>http://www.ssu.missouri.edu/faculty/JIkerd/default.htm.
>
>I've also contemplated a more organized "Fresh and Local" marketing effort.
>When I approached the "Be Californian, Buy California Grown"
>(http://www.californiagrown.org/) people, they didn't seem interested in
>supporting smaller farmers and are mostly partnering with the large
>commissions and boards. A number of people have told me that the distributed
>and diverse "buy local" marketing efforts are more powerful anyways -- and
>that it would be too hard to coordinate anything on a large scale. I'm
>still not convinced there isn't a foundation out there willing to support
>something like this.

Have you talked to the Rodale Institute at all? I don't
know whether they give grants.

Pat




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