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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  next month is  OSU’s Eat Global, Buy Local initiative, and the speaker is  OSU Dining  Service’s Sous Chef Patrick Murphy. Details are on the Flyer(pdf). … Read entire article »

Filed under: Local Food Processing, Meetings & Events, New Farmers, Restaurants

Columbus Ohio Going Green

I just read this article in thedailygreen.com about what the City and people of Columbus are doing to “go green”. In the local food arena it mentions: The Tip Top Restaurant downtown that is committed to extremely local food: they grow their vegetables on the roof of their building. Black Creek Bistro, a restaurant that recycles its fryer oil into biofuel to run the tractor on the farm where their produce is grown. Read the entire article at www.thedailygreen.com … Read entire article »

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Local Food Bulletin Idea

To promote the use of local foods among restaurateurs and smaller groceries I thought there should be some way to let those customers know each month the following: what local food is available from what farmers, at what price, with direct contact info phone, email quantity available delivery schedule how long will it be available A call can be made to each participating farmer each month where this info would be collected.  A database would be used to sort the data and make it most useful for the reader. The bulletin would be on a set schedule with a publishing cut-off time and date. Meat and Dairy products as well as value added products would be included. Products would need to be grown or handmade by the seller. The newsletter would be mostly this type of information but … Read entire article »

Filed under: New Farmers, Restaurants