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In New England, Respecting our Heritage Means Respecting the Sea
Thursday, 08 September 2016
This post, by Joshua Berman, Project Coordinator for the Sustainable Business Network, orginally appeared on the Boston Local Food Festival Blog. The city of Boston has a very interesting history, and
- Published in Massachusetts
Breaking ground is a dream come true for New Roots and the Somali community
Tuesday, 06 September 2016
This story was originally posted on Land For Good’s website August 19, 2016. Last week, the four Somali Bantu farmers of New Roots Cooperative Farm, broke ground at their new 30 acre
- Published in Maine
Dying dairies: How drought, low milk prices lead to decline in N.H. farms
Thursday, 01 September 2016
By Elodie Reed, Concord Monitor staff Tuesday, August 30, 2016 New Hampshire has lost 16 percent of its dairy farms in just eight months, and Stew Yeaton is worried his
- Published in New Hampshire
Getting it There: The Role of New England Food Distributors in Providing Local Food to Institutions
Wednesday, 31 August 2016
www.farmtoinstitution.org/blog/new-fine-report-reveals-farm-institution-trends-food-distribution
- Published in News & Announcements, Research and Reports
Beyond Buying Local: Maine Food Strategy Calls for Collaboration to Strengthen and Secure the State’s Food System
Thursday, 25 August 2016
On Tuesday, August 9 the Maine Food Strategy, a statewide initiative to create a stronger and more broadly connected food system, released the Framework: A tool for advancing food systems
- Published in Maine
On The Farm: A Closed Loop
Wednesday, 24 August 2016
Explore Natick Community Organic Farm and meet the Farmers that work there in the pilot episode of this 12 part series. On The Farm is a documentary web series that
- Published in News & Announcements
A Community Garden For Newport?
Friday, 12 August 2016
How we built a stunningly beautiful community garden in 100 days When I think back to how we decided to build a first community garden in Newport, it seems that
- Published in Rhode Island
New Report Reveals Farm to Institution Trends in Food Distribution
Thursday, 11 August 2016
This piece was originally posted by Erica Houskeeper on UVM Food Feed. A new research report from Farm to Institution New England (FINE) surveyed food distributors to gather their perspectives on institutional
- Published in General
Tackling Wicked Problems in Food Systems: NESAWG’s 2016 It Takes a Region Conference
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (NESAWG)’s It Takes a Region Conference brings together farm and food systems practitioners across the 12-state Northeast region to learn, debate, collaborate, and innovate solutions to critical food
- Published in General
Strategies to Support Local Food in Rhode Island
Tuesday, 09 August 2016
This post was originally published on the UNH Sustainability Institute blog. This past Friday, July 29, I had the pleasure of visiting Rhode Island to gain a better understanding of
- Published in Rhode Island
Faces of Food Systems Planning: Mary Chicoine Praus
Monday, 08 August 2016
This post was originally published on the American Planning Association Food Systems Planning Interest Group’s website. Mary Chicoine Praus is a Land Use Planner at Franklin Regional Council of Governments in Greenfield, Massachusetts. The
- Published in News & Announcements, Stories and Inspiration
The Real Work
Thursday, 04 August 2016
Just a few weeks after Food Solutions New England (FSNE)’s Summit VI in Bridgeport, Connecticut, I was lucky enough to attend the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders‘[1] (SAFSF) annual
- Published in General
Values-Driven Fisheries, Strength in Numbers!
Monday, 01 August 2016
This post comes from Dawn Tucker with End-O-Main Lobster and fishing family out of Wickford, Rhode Island and was originally posted on the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance blog. My name is Dawn (McAlister)
- Published in Fisheries, Rhode Island
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