Tag: usda
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The Farm Has An Insatiable Appetite
I am delighted to announce the publication of “The farm has an insatiable appetite”: A food justice approach to understanding beginning farmer stress in the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development: https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2023.123.011. This article is the culmination of three years of project development, research, analysis, and writing. I participated as a research advisor…
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Advancing Mobile Meat Slaughter and Processing In Ohio and Central Appalachia
From September 2020 – March 2022, myself and collaborators Angela Blatt, Paul Dorrance, and ACEnet completed a USDA Local Foods Promotion Program (LFPP) project, “Planning to Advance Mobile Meat Slaughter and Processing in Ohio and Central Appalachia” from September 2020 – March 2022. Demand for local meat continues to grow, but bottlenecks in the local…
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Mad About Saffron
From 2018-2019, I was the project coordinator of “Mad About Saffron: Growing A Valuable Global Seasoning In The Midwest” a NCR-SARE Farmer Rancher awarded to Foraged & Sown urban central Ohio farm. In the first year of the Mad About Saffron project, the Foraged & Sown team began exploring how to grow saffron in the…