Tag: local
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Locally-Sourced #Thanksgiving Meal Easy to Gobble
from kwwl.com: As you prepare your Thanksgiving feast, one local food expert asks you to consider just where all that nourishment came from. Wednesday afternoon, Brittany Bethel stood in her Dubuque County kitchen, pulling out the raw materials that would soon become her and her husband’s Thanksgiving feast. “It’s all local produce and cheese and…
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Local Liquor and Our Growing Thirst for Craft Distillers
from ecosalon.com: Ever heard of artisinal vodka? You may be surprised to learn that craft distilling is a fairly new but growing industry. The American Distilling Institute says that micro-distilling has grown by 30 percent since January 2010, and the number of licensed craft distillers has doubled. Just as local food and local brews, local…
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usda says ‘locally grown’ food a $4.8b business
from ap: A new U.S. Department of Agriculture report says sales of “local foods,” whether sold direct to consumers at farmers markets or through intermediaries such as grocers or restaurants, amounted to $4.8 billion in 2008. That’s a number several times greater than earlier estimates, and the department predicts locally grown foods will generate $7…