Despite yesterday’s sunshine and outdoor pull of spring, the Front Room at Ohio University’s Baker Center was abuzz with students, faculty and members of the larger community. Over 70 people attended the Eco Café, an on-going series of presentations on social, economic, and environmental issues impacting southeast Ohio, sponsored by Rural Action and OU’s Center [...]
Posts Tagged ‘local food activist’
Food Security: Keeping it Close to Home
Posted in local economies, local food events, tagged 30 Mile Meal, ACEnet, Chesterhill Produce Auction, Community Food Initiatives, local food activist, local foods on April 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Local Foods Maven, Leslie Schaller
Posted in The 30 Mile Meal Community, tagged 30 Mile Meal Champions, ACEnet, Athens Farmers Market, Casa Nueva, Community Food Initiatives, kitchen incubators, local food activist, Snowville Creamery on January 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of my intentions for 2011 is to shine light on our many 30 Mile Meal partners. Meet Leslie Schaller, known to hundreds of food entrepreneurs in the Athens region as well as local food activists across the country. Some background on this amazing dynamo. First, don’t be fooled by her diminutive size. This woman [...]
Dairy Evangelist Shakes It Up (Cause It’s Not Homoginized)
Posted in real milk, tagged eat local foods, food security, local food activist, local foods, locavore, Snowville Creamery on November 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The ARTS/West building, formerly a church, seemed an appropriate venue for Monday night’s talk by Warren Taylor, Meigs County dairy evangelist and co-owner of Snowville Creamery. The pews were packed with the faithful, both young and old (later referred to by Warren as the AARP contingent or Athens Area Radical Progressives). Just inside the doors [...]
Never Too Young to be a Locavore Advocate
Posted in 30 Mile Meal, healthy local foods economy, locavore, tagged eat local foods, local food activist, locavore, TEDxNextGenerationAsheville on October 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Is 11 year old Birke Baehr the youngest local foods advocate in the U.S.? He recently spoke at the first TEDxNextGenerationAsheville, a gathering for young people to discuss and connect on a wide range of social issues. I think you’ll enjoy his inspiring talk.
What do you get when you cross an activist and a farmer?
Posted in 30 Mile Meal Week, tagged food security, local food activist, local foods on October 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
An Agtivist! Francis Thicke is currently running for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture. According to The New Agtivist, “Thicke is a down-to-earth Iowa dairyman and professorial, statistics-spouting visionary. He’s been a full-time farmer 27 years, running what’s now a 450-acre farm with 80 cows that he and his wife, Susan, got certified organic in 1993. After [...]
