Local Foods Group to Hold Inaugural Meeting at Burlington City Hall
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Burlington, Vermont - Champlain Valley Localsourcers, a new community nonprofit that champions use of local foods and resources, will hold its inaugural meeting on Wednesday, February 6, from 6:00-8:00 PM at Burlington City Hall Contois Auditorium. The Champlain Valley branch is the first local chapter of the group, which is online at www.localsource.me.
"When our family started changing over to local foods, I was amazed that Burlington, one of the most local foods-friendly places in the country, didn't have a group where people could share ideas and information," says organizer Luc Reid. "Localsourcers is meant to fill that gap for Burlington and the rest of the Champlain Valley."
A former group called Burlington Area Localvores previously held localvore challenges and promoted local foods, but disbanded several years ago.
Vermont ranked first among the fifty states in the 2012 Locavore Index, a comparison of state population to number of farmers' markets and community-supported agriculture organizations, sponsored by The Strolling of the Heifers and based primarily on USDA and U.S. Census data.
In addition to food co-ops, farmers' markets, community supported agriculture operations, farms, and food producers, the Champlain Valley is home to dozens of organizations that promote local foods, such as the Vermont Fresh Network, the Burlington Food Council, Addison County Relocalization Network (ACORN) and groups at Champlain College and UVM. New organizations are springing up to serve immigrant populations in the Champlain Valley and all of Vermont, such as New Foods for New Americans, which helps transplanted African farmers grow food in Vermont, and the Goat Collaborative, which this year will begin raising local goats as a source of meat for area residents to replace the frozen goats from Australia that have supplied that need so far. Localsourcers is unique among these organizations in that its primary mission is bringing together individuals and families to help each other transition to more local sources of food and other necessities.
The February 6 Localsourcers meeting will begin with a social half-hour, for which musicians are invited to bring instruments, followed by presentations, problem-solving, and discussion. It is free and open to the public. More information is available at www.localsource.me or by e-mailing luc@localsource.me.
Press contact:
Luc Reid
(802) 355-0635
luc@localsource.me
www.localsource.me
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Burlington, Vermont - Champlain Valley Localsourcers, a new community nonprofit that champions use of local foods and resources, will hold its inaugural meeting on Wednesday, February 6, from 6:00-8:00 PM at Burlington City Hall Contois Auditorium. The Champlain Valley branch is the first local chapter of the group, which is online at www.localsource.me.
"When our family started changing over to local foods, I was amazed that Burlington, one of the most local foods-friendly places in the country, didn't have a group where people could share ideas and information," says organizer Luc Reid. "Localsourcers is meant to fill that gap for Burlington and the rest of the Champlain Valley."
A former group called Burlington Area Localvores previously held localvore challenges and promoted local foods, but disbanded several years ago.
Vermont ranked first among the fifty states in the 2012 Locavore Index, a comparison of state population to number of farmers' markets and community-supported agriculture organizations, sponsored by The Strolling of the Heifers and based primarily on USDA and U.S. Census data.
In addition to food co-ops, farmers' markets, community supported agriculture operations, farms, and food producers, the Champlain Valley is home to dozens of organizations that promote local foods, such as the Vermont Fresh Network, the Burlington Food Council, Addison County Relocalization Network (ACORN) and groups at Champlain College and UVM. New organizations are springing up to serve immigrant populations in the Champlain Valley and all of Vermont, such as New Foods for New Americans, which helps transplanted African farmers grow food in Vermont, and the Goat Collaborative, which this year will begin raising local goats as a source of meat for area residents to replace the frozen goats from Australia that have supplied that need so far. Localsourcers is unique among these organizations in that its primary mission is bringing together individuals and families to help each other transition to more local sources of food and other necessities.
The February 6 Localsourcers meeting will begin with a social half-hour, for which musicians are invited to bring instruments, followed by presentations, problem-solving, and discussion. It is free and open to the public. More information is available at www.localsource.me or by e-mailing luc@localsource.me.
Press contact:
Luc Reid
(802) 355-0635
luc@localsource.me
www.localsource.me
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