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Worcester
Filling the Gaps: Creating a Central Mass Buy Local Program
By FALPC Intern Jacquelyn Burmeister If you want to be connected to the local food network in Worcester County, Maleah Gustafson is your woman. She is author of the Central Mass Local Food website and Facebook page, where she boasts more than 650 followers. Not bad for a mom that works full time. The popularity […]
The Worcester Food Hub: An Economic Development Project Around Local Food
By FALPC Intern Jacquelyn Burmeister Worcester County boasts being the one of the most important agricultural producers in the state. The majority of our producers are small farms, containing 65 acres or less of land. This means that when we buy local in Worcester, we are directly supporting families and small businesses, and not large, […]
Debunking Food Labels: Five Deceiving Terms
The food industry has a wide range of terms, labels, and buzzwords that are used to draw in consumers. Oftentimes these labels can be misleading and cover up inconvenient realities. 1) Free-Range Poultry & Eggs- While this encourages thoughts of chickens roaming on spacious fields, the reality is often the opposite. To be “free-range” means the […]
Walkability and Unrealized Assets: A Guest Post by Sam Bryson-Brockmann
Over the past two years I worked as a teacher in inner city Kansas City, MO. Returning to school this past fall as a Community Development and Planning (CDP) Master’s student at Clark University was hard because I no longer had that time with youth that had inspired me to move halfway across the country […]