Webinar: Supporting local foods and beginning farmers in the 2013 Farm Bill
Friday April 19, 2013
Curious about what's going on this year around a new farm bill? Want to help make sure the federal government supports beginning farmers, local food, and strong communities?
The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition is hosting a webinar this *Friday, April 19 at 1:00pm EST *on how organizations that work on food and farm initiatives can get engaged with the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Opportunity Act and the Local Farms, Food, and Jobs Act. The two bills are intended for inclusion in the next farm bill. The webinar will provide an overview of each bill and detail how to take action.
You can register here.
Contact info:
Shavaun Evans
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
110 Maryland Avenue NE, Suite 209 Washington, DC 20002
https://sustainableagriculture.net/take-action/
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The register link is broken. I tried it today and yesterday, and it didn’t work. 🙁
Tabetha, I had no problem with the link. Not sure what’s happening.
Will this webinar be put online for viewing?
Joshua,
Not sure. You need to contact the organization that held the webinar to find out.
Red Tomato, a small nonprofit business in Massachusetts, is the marketing agent for a network of 40 mid-size farms in the Northeast. Red Tomato orchestrates their supply into more than 200 supermarkets in the greater Boston area, and as of recently, in the greater NYC metro area. To satisfy farms and deliver high-quality produce to distributors, Red Tomato’s value-added strategy is to differentiate products, or decommodify them, through branding, local and farm identity, packaging, variety choice and diversity, eco certification, aggregation, and through intense focus on quality control to maximize flavor and freshness.Can Red Tomato build a regional supply chain that maintains the highest quality, and satisfies both farmers and consumers alike? This webinar explores this question as well as some of the contradictions in the system, such as seasonality vs. the year-round supply that is required to compete in the produce industry.
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