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CSA Fair and Guide

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Last weekend’s CSA Fair was a success with about 200 people trickling in throughout the day.  Thank you to everyone who came out and showed their support! We now have our 2011 CSA Guide available for viewing.  Please click on the following link and check out our new guide! csa-guide-electronic

FICFM comes to market Saturday, August 7th!

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Friends of the Iowa City Farmer’s Market will be at the Saturday morning market on August 7th! As a fundraiser for the organization, FICFM will be selling Heyn’s ice cream cones, hot tea, cold tea, iced cocoa and slices of melon from 7:30am-noon! Also available at the FICFM table will be Simply in Season cookbooks [...]

Iowa City’s Haunted Bookshop, a friend of LFC!

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Tucked into the corner of a historic building in downtown Iowa City, The Haunted Bookshop is a secondhand bookshop specializing in poetry, literature, first and signed editions and Iowa-related books. As Iowa City’s oldest secondhand bookshop, Haunted Book carries over 40, 000 used, rare, out of print and antiquarian titles along with toys, games, cards [...]

LFC Update: Cookbooks to help you eat healthy, local and seasonally!

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Local Foods Connection has recently begun a project to provide our clients with new cookbooks in both English and Spanish which include recipes focused on in-season cooking, nutrition and education on different kinds of produce. The first cookbook, Simply in Season (English), is a book divided into color-coded sections by season which provide varied recipes [...]

A unique way to get local food into schools

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Ag Diversification and Market Development Bureau “Wrap Your Own-Iowa Grown” Initiative This is your chance to wrap up something great from our state! “Wrap Your Own-Iowa Grown” is a new initiative of the Iowa Farm to School Program that will start this fall. This initiative is a great opportunity for schools, students, teachers, parents, and [...]

A Visit to Friendly Farms in Iowa City

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Local Foods Connection took the Iowa City Head Start program to Friendly Farms in Iowa City for a farm field trip on Wednesday. The Iowa City Head Start program is one of our client agencies for the first time this year and we are greatly enjoying their participation in our program. The Iowa City Head [...]

Food Access Bibliography

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Many studies have been published exploring the question of whether low-income families are able and willing to purchase fresh food and local food.  According to Susan Roberts, author of “Hunger in Iowa 2007,” Food Security means access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. Food Security includes, at [...]

Community Food Security Coalition Conference

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Register now for the nation’s largest food security conference, being held in Des Moines this October 10-13, 2009. Learn more at: From Commodity to Community: Food Politics and Projects in the Heartland Join us for the nation’s primary food systems networking and educational event in Des Moines for four days of inspiring presentations, scintillating workshops, [...]