The Snoqualmie Valley Farmers Cooperative, this week made their first delivery of organic produce to 21 Acres Food Hub to be distributed to 100 low-income, home-bound seniors in Seattle.
Read more: New Snoqualmie Valley Farmers Co-op Delivers Organic Produce to Seniors
Gail Nickel-Kailing, January 24th, 2013 
Getting our food from the farm to the consumer – the “supply chain” – is certainly not as simple as it was the past. Once upon a time, the consumer, his/her family, and the local community WERE the growers and a supply chain didn’t exist. Transportation from the field and barn to the kitchen was a matter of feet or yards, not miles. What once was a simple connection with one or two stops along the way, has become a spaghetti-like tangle of connections, links, and cross-links to get fresh fruits and vegetables to your plate.
Read more: Buy local? Why local? Time for the REAL story!
Spend a little time in the presence of a local food advocate and you’ll hear a string of acronyms beginning with CS: Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), Community Supported Bakery (CSB), Community Supported Restaurant (CSR), Community Supported Winery (CSW), Community Supported Fishery (CSF). What is all this community support about and what do these programs really mean?
Read more: Community Supported What? CSA, CSB, CSR, CSW, CSF?
Gail Nickel-Kailing, February 19th, 2012 
We’re all busy people, and we can easily be overwhelmed by the bewildering array of products on the supermarket shelves. According to the FMI (Food Marketing Institute), the average supermarket today carries nearly 39,000 items. How those products make it to the shelf is something that most of us don’t know. Why is this product available and not another one? Who determines what it is that you get to buy?
Read more: You get to decide what to eat, right?
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Griz Read 2017:
Lentil Underground
Free and Open to the Public
September 21, 2017
University of Montana, Missoula
The purpose of the Griz Read is to provide new students with a common connection through a thought-provoking book. This year, a committee of faculty, staff, and students selected Lentil Underground, by Liz Carlisle.
Journalist and native Montanan Liz Carlisle weaves an eye-opening and richly reported narrative that will be welcomed by readers of food and farm memoirs, as well as everyone concerned with the future of American agriculture and natural food in an increasingly uncertain world.
Details here.
A Video You Don't Want to Miss!
This one comes recommended by Gabe Brown, expert in Regenerative Agriculture and Holistic Management!
Gabe Brown, will a keynote speaker at the AERO 2017 Expo,
Oct. 20-22, Butte MT.
Book of the Month
Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups
By Andrew Fisher
Food banks and food pantries have proliferated in response to an economic emergency. This was meant to be a stopgap measure, but the jobs never came back, and the “emergency food system” became an industry.
But there is reason for hope that we can end hunger, not just manage it. Read on...
LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW YOUR FOOD GETS TO YOUR PLATE
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