Local Farmers Markets in Annetta, Texas

www.localharvest.org | “Annetta Valley Farmers Market is a rural, family-friendly, fresh-air market located on our farm in Annetta, Texas. Our goal is to provide customers with locally grown, farm-fresh produce and the opportunity to interact with the farmers, growers, and producers. Annetta Valley is a “Producers Only” Farmers Market and vendors sell only items that they have grown or produced themselves.”

“PROFILE — FARMER’S MARKETS.
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Annetta Valley Farmers Market – LocalHarvest
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Annetta Valley Farmers Market is a rural, family-friendly, fresh-air market located on our farm in Annetta, Texas. Our goal is to provide customers with locally grown, farm-fresh produce and the opportunity to interact with the farmers, growers, and producers. Annetta Valley is a “Producers Only” “
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From Roadside Stand to International Organic Company

From Roadside Stand to International Organic Company

June 23, 2012, www.care2.com | “How did a two-and-a-half-acre heirloom raspberry farm and roadside stand blossom into the largest grower of organic produce in North America? Myra Goodman says it is “an accidental story.” ”

“PROFILE — EARTHBOUND FARMS, organic farmers . . .
Earthbound Farm’s 200 farmers working on 40,000 acres of land saves the use of more than 14 million pounds of synthetic chemicals each year.
From Roadside Stand to International Organic Company
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How did a two-and-a-half-acre heirloom raspberry farm and roadside stand blossom into the largest grower of organic produce in North America? Myra Goodman says it is an accidental story.”
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PROFILE OF AN ORGANIC FARM, PROVIDING PRODUCE TO ASHLAND OREGON

www.ashlandfood.coop | “Chi and his wife, Michelle Scherer have been farming in southern Oregon since the mid ’80s.  They build their soil structure, or “tilth,” in a sustainable way through rigorous annual and perennial cover cropping.”

“~ PROFILE OF AN ORGANIC FARM, PROVIDING PRODUCE TO ASHLAND OREGON
Profiles of 22 other growers can be found at this website.
http://www.ashlandfood.coop/growers/hi-hoe-produce-bluebird-farm
Hi Hoe Produce at Bluebird Farm | Ashland Food Co-op
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Listening to Chi Scherer talk at an Ashland Food Co-op sponsored farm tour of his farm can be a mystical experience. “Plants are the skin of the earth,” he observes, explaining further that when you turn soil, “you’ve created a wound.” To heal that wound, you plant either a cover crop or a productio…”
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New Yorkers branch into ‘beyond organic’ urban fish farming

January 17, 2013, www.rawstory.com | “So you recycle, drive a small car, and try to eat organic. But what about running an eco-sustainable fish farm combined with a naturally fertilized vegetable patch in your kitchen? Christopher Toole and Anya Pozdeeva, two former New York bankers who founded the Society for Aquaponic Values and Education (SAVE), are there to help.”

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New Yorkers branch into ‘beyond organic’ urban fish farming
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So you recycle, drive a small car, and try to eat organic. But what about running an eco-sustainable fish farm combined with a naturally fertilized vegetable patch in your kitchen?
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‘Magic’ falls not far from the tree; group up for Green Toronto Award

Published 26 March 2012, www.torontoobserver.ca | Every year inside Toronto’s city limits, thousands of trees bloom and bear fruit.  And every year much of that cornucopia goes uneaten, often because no one’s available to pick the fruit.

That’s where Not Far From The Tree comes in. The local organization registers fruit trees on residential and city-owned property, and sends volunteers to help with the harvest.

“There’s a lot of magic that happens when this private nuisance is transformed into an asset for the community,” said Laura Reinsborough, the organization’s founder and director. “It becomes this really great social moment too, where strangers gather and are welcomed into somebody’s private yard.

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‘Magic’ falls not far from the tree; group up for Green Toronto Award | The Toronto Observer
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That’s where Not Far From The Tree comes in. The local organization registers fruit trees on residential and city-owned property, and sends volunteers to help with the harvest.
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Strawberry lovers rejoice: Methyl iodide off the market for now

March 21, 2012, grist.org | “One of the most hotly contested pesticides in recent memory has been taken off the market: methyl iodide. As reported by the San Jose Mercury News, Arysta Lifescience, the makers of the fumigant, announced on Tuesday evening that they’d be suspending sales of the product (also known as Midas) in all U.S. markets.”

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“Thanks to an Earthjustice lawsuit another toxic pesticide is now off the market!!
2012-10-30 Methyl Iodide Federal Registration Pulled
“Methyl iodide is now officially history, and good riddance! In the United States of America, we can grow good, affordable food without putting li…”

 

Indoor farm in Brooklyn helps feed hundreds of families

13 Mar 2012, www.grist.org | In Bedford-Stuyvesant, an increasingly hip but historically low-income Brooklyn neighborhood, one food pantry is also an indoor farm. The New York Daily News visited the Child Development Support Corporation, where every Thursday morning clients harvest lettuce, bok choy, and collard greens that help feed hundreds of families.

Right now the greens are all grown hydroponically indoors, but the farm has plans to expand, adding a rooftop garden with cucumbers, tomatoes, and peppers. It will also be offering hydroponics workshops and cooking demos.

 

~ WIN-WIN … LOCAL FRESH FOOD – Hydroponic farm in low income neighborhood helps hundreds of families put fresh food in their diet. Project funded via A United Way grant to Brooklyn’s “Child Development Support Corporation” http://cdscnyc.publishpath.com/hydroponic-farm
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via Polly Howells and this article from Grist, http://grist.org/list/indoor-farm-in-brooklyn-helps-feed-hundreds-of-families/
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Peru Passes Monumental Ten Year Ban on Genetically Engineered Foods

March 10, 2012 www.occupymonsanto360.org| “In a massive blow to multinational agribiz corporations such as  Monsanto, Bayer, and Dow, Peru has officially passed a law banning genetically modified ingredients anywhere within the country for a full decade before coming up for another review.”

“Yum!
Peru Passes Monumental Ten Year Ban on Genetically Engineered Foods Alternative World News Network
In a massive blow to multinational agribiz corporations such as Monsanto, Bayer, and Dow, Peru has officially passed a law banning genetica…”
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The Business of Local Foods, summary by Kathleen Merrigan, Deputy Secretary, USDA

www.huffingtonpost.com, 2/3/12, “Farms selling locally may grow a wider variety of crops, they may pack or process on the farm or use workers to transport and market their products. Regardless, local food has big potential for job creation and economic opportunity.”  Diana Burke and Judith Green like this.
QUOTE:  Kathleen Merrigan, Deputy Secretary, USDA, “According the USDA’s own research, local food sales made through direct marketing sales like farmers markets, CSAs, and farm stands plus via supermarkets, restaurants and institutional buyers were close to $5 billion. Fruit, vegetable and nut growers selling into local and regional markets employ 13 fulltime workers per $1 million in revenue earned.”

30Yr Study: Organic Farming Outperforms Conventional, Chemical Farming

Dec 23, 2011, blog.friendseat.com | “Based on a 30-year side-by-side trial of conventional and organic farming methods at Pennsylvania’s Rodale Institute, organic farming outperformed conventional farming in every category.”

“30Yr Study: Organic Farming Outperforms Conventional, Chemical Farming | FriendsEAT.com
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A thirty year study finds that organic farming produces more than conventional…”
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