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Meet Local Farmers who offer CSAs

Notice of upcoming meet and greet. Several local farmers who offer CSA’s will be meeting at the Tehku (hope I spelled that right) Tea house on thurs dec 18th @4-6 Just off 161 in downtown Dublin. call to confirm. 55 S High St Dublin, OH 43017 (614) 761-3808 http://www.tehku.com/ Google Maps by Karen G. … Read entire article »

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Chicken Wars

How much chicken could a chicken shop sell if a chicken shop could sell chicken?  Good questions if you could swallow it with out choking.  The chicken industry is all choked up.  Let me tell you about it.  If you want to sell chicken in this town you either have to buy a farm in a different county.  Or drive over a hundred miles to the Indiana border to process it at the only open to the public chicken processing plant.  Those doing it are selling their chicken for 3 to 4 dollars a pound.  And!  There is a market.  Now if you were amish then you and your neighbors would work together to do it.  There are over 100 of these farms selling free range chicken in the state.  … Read entire article »

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Food Co-Op for Info Shop

There are a number of ways for the average person and family to have good healthy food on their table.  They can buy it from the number of organic groceries that are expanding in the cities.  They can go to farm markets, join CSA”s,(farmer owned and operated buying clubs).  They can grow it themselves.  And they can form their own buying clubs or co-ops with friends and neighbors.  This writing will deal with the co-op. It is a simple matter for someone to get a vendor’s license in Ohio.  Currently it cost $25.  This entitles you to buy wholesale from anyone and is also tax exempt.  It is a business so you will have to fill out a separate tax form and make sales tax payments on the profit.  But you … Read entire article »

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danger…food!

Dangerous ideas in Food can be a really daunting subject to write about.  Where does one start?  One could address the issues of the effects of eating the wrong foods.  Or how about who grows, harvests and processes the food we eat.  All these subjects have had major outings in the past decade.  Who do you believe?  Do you have direct knowledge or opinions about the dark side of food in America. Would you like to have some say in the matter? The following are ideas that deserve some deep discussion and follow thru. It’s easy to bemoan the plight of the illegal workers who have worked in this country for over 50 years.  But are you willing to grow a garden yourself?  Do you think it is enough to throw … Read entire article »

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