Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Local food council develops big plans

from Galesburg.com, a newspaper in western Illinois, US. Hopefully, we in the US are at the beginning of a public policy trend for locally produced and distributed food.
The Knox County Board has officially established a local food council that will work to strengthen and develop local food networks.

The 15-member council will become a non-profit foundation and will work with local growers to help them reach markets for their products and add value to them. County officials hope that over time growth in local food production could create hundreds of sustainable jobs.