Growing is HALF the Battle!

Growing is HALF the Battle!

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Local: What We Lose When We Keep It Small
When we celebrate local food, we often picture community, connection, and the pleasure of a familiar face behind the basket.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Local: The False Choice
We talk about local food like it only exists at the farmers market.
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The Harvest Loop: Moving from Seed to Stuck in Scaling Local Foods
Four easy steps to build customer connection and engagement.
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The Challenge: Engage the community
In other words: How to Grow a Movement
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The Challenge: Policy meets Advocacy
Big Ag gets subsidies. Local farms get booth fees.
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The Challenge: Everyone wants more local farms.
But almost no one has figured out how to sell the crops.
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The Challenge: No Cooler, No Car, No Chance
Why Infrastructure Kills New Farms
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Growing is HALF the Battle!
Growing is HALF the Battle!
This publication is for people building food systems that actually work. Not just how to grow food, But how to make it viable. How to scale small farms without selling out. How to build markets that support growers, feed communities, and make local food
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