{"id":152,"date":"2008-02-27T14:44:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T14:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=152"},"modified":"2008-02-27T14:44:44","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T14:44:44","slug":"food-for-thou-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food-for-thou-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Food For Thought &#8211; Buying Local Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/images\/2008\/02\/27\/img_0573.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Img_0573\" title=\"Img_0573\" src=\"\/images\/2008-small\/02\/27\/img_0573.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a>This week on Food For Thought a visit to a Culinary Tourism Conference yielded some interesting info on companies and individuals trying to make it easier for consumers, chefs and other food service operators to get access to local produce and value-added products. <\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the 6 minute documentary by clicking <a href=\"\/files\/fft-feb27-08.mp3\">here.<\/a>&nbsp; At the end of the documentary I mentioned that now is the time of year to start contacting farmers or co-ops that offer Community Supported Agricultural programs, or CSAs.&nbsp; Most of these programs match you up with a farmer who will deliver a box of goods from their gardens throughout their growing season.&nbsp; For some general information about how CSAs work, you can visit this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nal.usda.gov\/afsic\/pubs\/csa\/csa.shtml\">USDA website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After the column aired today, I heard about one such program from a listener in Chase, BC.&nbsp; It&#8217;s called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heartlandfoods.ca\/default.htm\">Heartland Foods and Farm Tours Cooperative<\/a>. There is also one at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landfood.ubc.ca\/ubcfarm\/csa.php\">UBC Farm<\/a>.&nbsp; In the Kootenays, click&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kootenayfood.ca\/regional_initiatives\/community_supported_agriculture.html\">here<\/a>. For a listing of some Ontario programs click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opha.on.ca\/foodnet\/initiatives\/foodbox.html\">here<\/a>.&nbsp; You can find some biodynamic CSA programs across Canada at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodynamics.com\/csacanada\">site<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget farmers markets.&nbsp; Some run year round, others will start in the spring.&nbsp; Go to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?hl=en&amp;q=Farmers+Markets+in+Canada&amp;btnG=Search&amp;meta=cr%3DcountryCA\">Google Search<\/a> page and you&#8217;ll find lots of references to farmers markets across Canada. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on Food For Thought a visit to a Culinary Tourism Conference yielded some interesting info on companies and individuals trying to make it easier for consumers, chefs and other food service operators to get access to local produce &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food-for-thou-3-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}