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Local Food Forum

Bob Benenson
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If you love to eat local food... if you grow local food, market local food, serve local food in your farm to table restaurant, teach about local food, expand access to local food, just want to know more about local food... this is YOUR newsletter.

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Latest Issues

Take a Survey on Home Food Waste Practices for Illinois Extension

Local Food Forum gives a lot of coverage to efforts to reduce food waste and its negative environmental impact. After I published two news items on Thursday (August 6) about efforts to combat food waste, I learned that University of Illinoi...

5 days ago

Food Rescue Updates: Cool Job Opening, Great Saved Food Stats

Regular readers of Local Food Forum know that we take reduction of food waste — and its environmental impact — very seriously. So we're happy to share a couple of updates from non-profit organizations that are doing great work to address th...

5 days ago

Congress: Make Farm Credit System Invest in Local Food Systems

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Federal farm policy is “rigged” against small- and medium-sized farmers. S...

6 days ago
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Indoor Farm Aims to Bring Local Food — and Revival — to Waukegan

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When Eliza Fournier joined Illinois' College of Lake County (CLC) as Urban Farm Director in late 2021, she took on the task of planning an indoor growing facility at the school's Lakeshore Campus in Waukegan — one tha...

9 days ago
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It's National Farmers Market Week — Why it Matters

For Local Food Forum and many of our readers, every week is a farmers market week. But this week — today (August 2) through Saturday (August 8) — is the official Farmers Market Week, celebrated nationally and by proclamation here in Illinoi...

10 days ago

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