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MA "Choose Fresh & Local" plate design
A new specialty license plate is in the works in Massachusetts to benefit new farmers, farmers’ markets, and the Commonwealth’s local food economy. The new “Choose Fresh & Local” license
Harvest New England and FINE logos and conference details
Farm to Instituion New England is hosting a Farm to Institution Track at the Harvest New England Ag Marketing Conference! Farm to Institution New England is excited to be hosting
Harvest New England logo
Harvest New England is a cooperative marketing program created by New England’s State Departments of Agriculture in 1992. It sponsors this regional conference every two years.  Wednesday & Thursday, February 25 and 26 Sturbridge, MA  The full
"I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits." - Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the gifts of MLK Day is the opportunity to reflect on how Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy can inspire our work for social justice.  I say social
Senator Moore talking with emerging leaders
Kicking off our new Network Profile project is Marilyn Moore, a dynamic, committed food system change agent from Bridgeport, Connecticut. Marilyn Moore is Founder and CEO of The Witness Project of
Each year, The Food Project welcomes participants from all around the United States to participate in their Winter Institute. Attendees of the Institute learn how to create a successful model
Marilyn Moore
More than 15 years ago I began educating women about breast cancer mortality and early detection.  Most of my outreach centered around African American women who suffer the highest mortality
Fulani Haynes with Community Tables menu

My Saturday Night Date

The Haley House Bakery Café in Roxbury, has been dispelling the myth that eating healthy, organically or clean food, has to cost a lot of money.  That’s why I love
Save the Date announcement for the Farm to Institution Summit
$5 Million Awarded to Farm to School Programs Nationwide  The Northeast Regional Steering Committee of the National Farm to School Network has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the U.S.
Kids with vegetables at Urban Oaks Farm

An Urban Farm Worth Saving

Urban Oaks Organic Farm has an improbable history. It is recognized state-wide by high-end restaurants and by out-of-town farm stand customers as the best—and only– year-round local source of fresh,
“If you are drinking milk in the morning or in the night. Don’t forget that me and thousands and thousands of guys are milking the cows for you.”–Bernadino Hernandez in
Karen Washington speaking at the symposium
On Friday, December 12, 2014 Equity Trust hosted a first-of-its-kind event: a one-day regional symposium on developing models of secure tenure for urban community farms. The gathering brought together over 35
Mindmap: An artifact from a recent convening about how to start effective networks, summarizing what the participants learned together. The video below describes this product in more detail.

Yes to Collaboration, But How?

This post was originally published on the Social Transformation Project blog.  Like a broken record, progressives have repeated for years that we need to work together and coordinate beyond our traditional
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