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Ohio Grass Grazed Symbol Proposed
Supporters of transparency in labeling have proposed a new symbol to aid consumers in their food choices. Products who would carry the label would need to have more than half of the feed consumed be grass or hay (for ruminants). The proposal also requires producers to commit to continuing education on sustainable methods, funding new research on healthy food production and community involvement.
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Sara Lee Greenwashes new bread product: “Eco-grain” – buyer beware
This is hot off the newswire: "EcoGrain" Marketing Blitz — Greenwashing New Bread Produced with Toxic Agrochemicals as Something /Better/ ...
Urban Farms of Central Ohio
We are building a map of urban farms. If you know of a farm that is in an urban (or ...
Co-op canneries…where’s the meat?
I was really excited about this message (below) until I read further into it. "...for the production of a premium ...
How do we move farming to the cities?
This was originally posted as a reply to Sam Rose's question on Ohio State University's Local Food Systems network. "So, the ...
Local Food & Recipes
Ohio Grass-fed Milk on NPR Ohio’s own Warren Taylor, often called a milk evangelist, passionately promotes milk like it used to be 40 years ago. Warren, and his dairy are featured in this NPR story on Dec. 10, 2009.
Read the full story on NPR
Urban Farming
Urban Farms of Central Ohio Where are the urban farms in Central Ohio. Take a look at our map. Please support local agriculture.
Gardening
New Community Garden Seeking Participants Are you an apartment dweller looking for a place to garden? A gardener looking for more space than you currently have? Art Yoho has generously volunteered his front yard for the site of our new community garden. The space is about one acre on Maize Road, just a bit north of Cooke Road. We’re looking [...]
Local Food Processing
ECDI Launches Kitchen Incubator Program The Economic and Community Development Institute has been helping entrepreneurs in Columbus to start up and grow their businesses for the past five years.
Columbusunderground.com interviews Bob Leighty and Amy Szabo recently to talk about ECDI’s new “Kitchen Incubator” program and what it can mean both for entrepreneurs as well as the community as a whole.
Restaurants
Food Chain Meeting in July A Food Chain Meeting that will take place early the morning of July 16th in Bellville. It will be at the Dutch Heritage Restaurant just off of Interstate 71 (four exits north of Polaris). This bi-monthly meeting has proved to be a great networking opportunity for growers, processors, buyers, and others to meet. The topic [...]
Grants
FARRMS Grant for organic and transitioning farms FARRMS Grant
This grant can be used for a variety of projects or expenses, but should be directly related to the farming operation, including but not limited to: fencing, computers, seed, irrigation, equipment, etc. The program is available to farms that are certified organic or actively transitioning into organic production; Non-certified projects on the organic [...]