{"id":4988,"date":"2010-06-23T07:05:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T13:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2012-04-16T10:30:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T15:30:27","slug":"buy-eat-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/4988","title":{"rendered":"Buy & Eat Local Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pictureHeard a lot about buying and eating locally-produced food? What’s the big deal?? Well, on Sunday (6\/20\/10) I saw a “Local Foods Movement<\/span><\/strong><\/a>” installment of Madison Channel 3<\/a>‘s “For the Record” series. Olivia Parry<\/strong>, Director of Dane County Planning and Development Dept.’s Institutional Food Market Coalition (IFM)<\/a>, provided information about economic and environmental benefits of consuming local foods, and about her work to get providers and institutional consumers together. Heather Hilleren<\/strong> talked about founding the national localdirt.com<\/a> web site, where individuals and businesses can find and request locally-produced food. She started it while she was a grad student at UW-Madison–a fine example of a student project that “grew up” (the kind of thing the College of Business & Economics<\/a>, and especially its Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization<\/a>, encourage).<\/p>\n

Watch it (click “For the Record”) \"For<\/a><\/p>\n

More information is available, if you’re interested.<\/strong> Check out web sites such as the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems<\/a> (UW-Madison), which has the College Food Project among its activities. CIAS is one of the partners that provides the annual Southern Wisconsin Farm Fresh Atlas<\/a>. The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture has launched an initiative called “Know your farmer, know your food<\/a>” to help educate Americans about the benefits of local food. Search article databases for articles such as “Local and Lovin’ It<\/a>” (Progressive Grocer<\/em>, May 2010, v.89:no.4, pp.64-68) and “Why local is good for you<\/a>” (Money<\/em>, Feb. 2010, no.120, p.28).<\/p>\n

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