Congregational Church Series on Hunger
Book Review: Food Cures by Joy BauerVolunteer Receives Governor’s Volunteer Award
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Bethany Bender, AmeriCorps Volunteer in Service to America (VISTA) with Local Foods Connection, was presented with a Governor’s Volunteer Award on Friday, June 24, 2011. Bender was nominated for her exceptional work with Local Foods Connection (LFC). She first began working with LFC in the fall of 2009 for five hours per week, and then [...]
johnson county land use update
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Last December Local Foods Connection sent a letter to the Johnson County Planning and Zoning to request that they add to the ‘2008 Land Use Plan’ language which shows support of sustainable agriculture farms and the local food economy. Included with letter was a summary of exciting local food policies and plans within the state [...]
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 [...]
Congratulations Terra Madre Delegates!
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Local Foods is pleased to announce that early this month two of of our nominees, Bethany Bender, Local Foods VISTA, and Jason Grimm, Food System Planner for the Amana Iowa Valley Resource Conservation and Development, were accepted as delegates to this October’s fourth annual Terra Madre Conference in Torino, Italy! You can help send these [...]