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September thoughts on Harvest
It’s been a while since I posted. Lots happening here in Columbus. 4 Seasons City Farm is deep in the midst of planning the Fall Harvest Festival. Sept 26 at Mound and Carpenter (the Olde Town East part of Columbus), Then a few days later will be a canning workshop on tues the 29th at Central Community House at Main and Champion. Limited group for hands on learning with Susan Shockey from Cooperative Extension. If interested call Karen to sign up for this or other TBA workshops. MORPC is being asked to find funding for more experts such as Susan to teach both water bath and pressure canning techniques. Did you know that you can even can a turkey this way? … Read entire article »
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Bringing food to the Table! Your local politician’s table too!
Brian Williams sent this in for posting. He’s the new food policy representative at MORPC. His background is in farmland preservation. We still have between 500 and 800 farms each in Franklin County and the surrounding counties that could use all the help they can get to transition to produce and organic techniques. The ACGA would also like to see more funding for the growing urban farm movement as well. If you have food ideas for the mayor, city council, county commissioners, he’s the guy who could run them up the pole. Looking forward to any public forums and discussion groups this could spawn. Don’t forget to list your ideas, complaints here, too. There’s safety in numbers. I want to see our … Read entire article »
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