>We also discussed at our last meeting approaching the farmers mkt, our
>local food coop, and perhaps others (restaurants, grocery chains) about
>working together to encourage people to eat locally, and perhaps help
>invest in local growers through revolving loan funds and/or "local food
>dollars". We think our state dept of econ. dev. would be interested in
>funding this sort of thing, is anyone familiar with anything like this
>around the country?
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Please let me know more about what your dept of econ dev. thinks of this
idea. I am also president of our farmer's Market and it would be great to be
able to find a way to fund that sort of program.