Lewis Hughes’s huge enjoy within the farming international set him up as a way to paintings with small-scale farmers in distributing their merchandise to wider markets.
Be told in regards to the What Cooks Need (previously known as Introduction Gardens) meals distributor and its local-foods procurement arm, Native Meals Connection. Lewis explains how a small-scale grower in Northeast Ohio would possibly generally most effective have the ability to distribute their meals to a farmers marketplace or native meals hub and the way What Cooks Need can now assist them promote all the way through the Midwest and past. He talks in regards to the grant investment (USDA Native Meals Acquire Help, USDA Native Meals for Colleges and others) that has helped impulsively construct capability and infrastructure within the native meals machine and certainly have an effect on farmers and shoppers.
Take Lewis’s highest recommendation for a way you, as a small-scale farmer, could make the step from promoting at a farmers marketplace to promoting to a meals hub, with the prospective to carry your full-time-farming dream into truth.
After all, Lewis talks about his new 13-acre assets in Michigan and his plans to increase a “micro-farm” that depends upon season extension and a centered crop plan.
Hyperlinks from this episode:
Native Meals Connection web page
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