We're Growing!

The Local Food Club is growing fast! In order to bring on more farms and more families, the club has restructured and rolled up into Know Your Farms, LLC.

Memberships for the fall 2008 / winter 2009 will be available in late August / early September.

Contact info@knowyourfarms.com to get on the mailing list.

Promoters of national livestock ID plan shift to focus on benefits of global traceability

From Rodale's New Farm Newsletter

"Why would farmers who don't export their livestock and focus on improving
the health of their stock rather than detecting disease after the animals reach
the market want a new bureaucracy that would cost them money and benefit someone
else?

That's the nub of the ongoing unease in the farm community with the U.S.
Department of Agriculture's plan to have track-back data capacity for every
animal on every farm. The department and exporters say they need this capacity
to provide global assurances for disease-source detection. Most farmers with
on-farm, local and regional markets—and those who already clearly brand
everything that leaves their farm, with pride—agree that the system offers them
little while costing them much.

To see how its supporters are promoting the concept, its technology and its
benefits, Amy Shollenberger of Rural Vermont (a nonprofit supporting local food
systems in Vermont and beyond) attended an event this summer. Here she
summarizes developments in the past year and reports what she saw."

http://www.newfarm.org/features/2007/1107/nais/shollenberger.shtml

What the World Eats

It might be interesting to get a group of families together and do this for the Charlotte region.

 

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_1373695,00.html

 

Interested?  Comment here.

 

Food Artist

I found a foodie illustrator whose work is so lovely, I had to share with someone.  Click on each of the illustrations on her homepage to learn more about most of the images.  Check it out at:
 
http://www.appetite4art.com/

Grain Consumption Data

The U.S. Grain Consumption Landscape: Who Eats Grain, in What Form, Where, and How Much?

Source: www.ers.usda.gov

The U.S. Government is promoting whole-grain foods, responding to mounting evidence of their association with maintaining a healthy weight and reducing the risk of heart problems and other diseases, This ...