Iowa City and Cedar Rapids Local Food Fairs!

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Join Us for Iowa City’s Sixth Annual Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Fair!
Saturday April 10, 2010
1 pm to 4 pm
Free and Open to the Public
Robert A. Lee Community Recreation Center
Social Hall 220 South Gilbert Street Iowa City, Iowa
Meet local farmers and learn how you can enjoy fresh produce throughout Iowa’s growing season! A CSA membership provides [...]

City of Iowa City Urban Sustainability Meeting

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The City of Iowa City plans to have a local foods initiatives included in their upcoming community-wide sustainability plan and would like to learn how other communities have worked with their local colleges, university and local food agencies. Local Foods Connection will join together with the City and these organizations in eastern Iowa to network [...]

Happy New Year!

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Butternut squash from Local Harvest CSA. Scarf from “Bloomin’ Prairie Bison” and hats from “Sage House Studio”: all purchased at Iowa City Holiday Farmers Market.
Here is a testimonial from one of 2009 clients. A wonderful message to welcome in the New Year!
“As the year draws to an end, we at our Group House are very [...]

Join us at the Eco-Iowa City Fair on Dec 17!

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Eco Iowa City is a grant-funded initiative to improve environmental sustainability in Iowa City.
ECO Iowa City Open House
What: ECO Iowa City Open House to share programs and project from 2009 and plans for 2010 with partner agencies and City of Iowa City departments and staff. Local Foods Connection will be here!
Where: Iowa City Public Library [...]

Vote for Local Foods Connection

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Vote online now for the edible Communities Publications’ Fourth Annual Local Hero Awards. Your local edible publication is “edible Iowa River Valley” Magazine, which you can find for free in libraries, grocery stores and restaurants. Join them in celebrating the heroes of our local food community! Simply visit the link shown below for your “Best [...]

Volunteer at our Turkey Distribution!

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Volunteer at our Turkey Distribution
In addition to 4 - 5 months of fresh produce, all Local Foods Connection clients in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids are offered a free, organic turkey for Thanksgiving. As an alternative to turkey, we offer our clients free, organic sheep meat in December. We purchase the turkey from Henry J.C. [...]

Donate to Local Foods Connection!

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LFC is supported financially by people like you! We depend on local families and businesses to donate money and services to us so that we can continue our work in providing fresh local food to low-income families. November and December are crucial fundraising months.
If you admire our work, want to support local farmers, or believe [...]

Community Food Security Conference Documents

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Local Foods Connection is co-hosting a workshop at the upcoming Community Food Security Coalition conference, From Commodity to Community: Food Policies and Projects in the Heartland.
The conference, being held in Des Moines this year, will include plenaries on building networks for food system change, labor and immigration policy, and strategies for change of the industrial [...]

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and Local Food Panel

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One Community, One Book 2009
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
http://www.icpl.org/one-book/
“Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” tells the story of how Kingsolver and her family for one year deliberately ate food produced in the place where they live. Kingsolver wrote the central narrative, and her husband, Steven Hopp, wrote in-depth sidebars about various aspects of food-production science and industry. [...]

See “The Real Dirt on Farmer John”

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THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN
With special guest appearance by John Peterson (Farmer John)

Sat Sep 12, 8 pm
CSPS, 1103 Third St SE, Cedar Rapids
http://www.legionarts.org/
Free admission, Donations invited
For close to a century, a great American epic has been played out in the tiny town of Caledonia, Illinois, about 75 miles west of Chicago. The Real Dirt [...]