Showing posts with label Local Foods Memo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Local Foods Memo. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Local Foods Memo - Farmers' Markets: Farmers' Market Season is Fast-Approaching

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Customers line the vendor stalls at the popular farmers' market in the small city of Sonora in Northern California's Gold Country fo...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

Food Retailing Innovation Memo: Innovative Combination Retail Food Market and Urban Farm Set to Open in New Orleans LA USA Neighborhood

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New Orleans' Hollygrove market and urban farm is set to open in January, 2009 Educational garden and market hope to regrow Hollygrove n...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Local Foods Retailing Memo" We Suggest the Next Steps in the Evolution of Local Foods Retailing Will Be 'Grocer Grown' and 'Store Grown'

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By day Simon Richard is the produce department manager at the Bi-Rite Market in San Francisco, California's Mission District. Often by ...
Sunday, May 25, 2008

Retail Memo: Meet Waitrose's Two-Legged 'Hog Blogger'; He's An Integral Part of the UK Food Retailer's 'Save Our Bacon' Campaign

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No, United Kingdom supermarket chain Waitrose's "Hog Blogger" isn't a real hog. But he is a real pig farmer, as well as be...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Local Foods Guest Memo: Palm Beach, Florida Post: Local Foods Movement Booming in the Sunshine State of Florida USA

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At age 6, Katie Shirley (pictured above) just might be the youngest local family farmer, as well as the most adorable, in America. Katie, w...
Saturday, May 10, 2008

Supply-Side Memo: Food Industry Giant Campbell's is Making a Big 'Locally-Grown' Push as Part of a Tomato Processing Plant Expansion in California

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Natural~Specialty Foods Memo learned at the recently concluded FMI (Food Marketing Institute) annual convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, that ...

Local Foods Retailing Memo: Tesco is Making Stronger Commitment to Local Foods Sourcing, Marketing and Merchandising in the United Kingdom

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Tesco, the world's number three retailer and the number one food and grocery sales market share leader in its home country of the United...
Thursday, May 1, 2008

Local Foods Memo: Never A Grocer to Have its Head in the Sand, Waitrose is Selling Locally-Produced Ostrich Eggs at its UK Supermarkets

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Nobody can accuse the United Kingdom's Waitrose supermarket chain of having its head in the sand when it comes to local foods retailing....
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Local Foods Memo: Tesco's 1,000 Mile 'Local' Scottish Chickens

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Why did the chicken cross the road? To get into the truck for its 1,000-mile round trip of course. Retail giant Tesco, the world's numbe...
Thursday, March 6, 2008

Local Foods Memo: 'Eggs, Bunnies and Piglets, Ow My': The UK Soil Association and Organic Farmers' Invite City Folk to Celebrate Easter on the Farm

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The United Kingdom's Soil Association has come up with a fun and educational way for Brits to learn more about where their foods come f...