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Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
Farmers, Farmers Markets – Health InsuranceMarch 7, 2011
(From Sarah Bird) Part of the Farmers Market Coalition’s ongoing mission is to serve producers, market managers, and other farmers market organization staff. This winter, we launched a webinar series on insurance, designed to help farmers markets and producers better understand and manage the liability risks that could compromise everything they’ve worked so hard to [...]
Farmers, Farmers Markets – Health Insurance
Bring a Barnraising Party to Your Farmers MarketMarch 1, 2011
(from Sarah Bird) A wonderful company called Yankee Barn Homes is providing a great opportunity right now that could benefit your farmers market! Yankee Barn Homes has partnered with Farmers Market Coalition and American Farmland Trust to celebrate the commitment of our nation’s farmers markets to local economic development and healthy farms and food with [...]
Bring a Barnraising Party to Your Farmers Market
Helping Vets Trade Their Swords for Plows, NYTFebruary 7, 2011
(From Pam K.) Helping Veterans Trade Their Swords for Plows By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN Published: February 5, 2011 VALLEY CENTER, Calif. — On an organic farm here in avocado country, a group of young Marines, veterans and Army reservists listened intently to an old hand from the front lines. “Think of it in military terms,” [...]
