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TOPICS
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Food Hubs
Experiments in Local Food System Innovations Peer-to-Peer Farm Visits Sharing Solutions, Problem Solving Together Collective Purchasing From Feed to Drip Tape, Save on Bulk & Demand Supply Apprenticeship Co-ops Educational Partnerships to Organize Interns Land Access Barriers, Success Stories & Dialogue Between New and Old Policy What You Should Know & How to Mobilize Appropriate Technologies On-farm Innovations Fit for Every Size |
New & Emerging Markets
Community Supported Kitchens, Online Food Hubs & More Mobilizing Our Customers CSA's to Herd-shares, Teaching Them to Shop Responsibly Just Food Ensuring Equity, Respect & Viability on the Small-scale Farm Living Sustainable While Sustainably Farming Caring for Yourself So You Can Care for the Soil Industry Speed-Dating Match-Making Farmers with Grocers, Chefs, & Schools Guild-Grazers Trading Notes on Healthy Pasture The Farm-to-Bouquet Movement Growing the Market for Local Flowers |
HOW DOES A GUILD-RAISING WORK?
Unlike a conference, you'll find no big-name keynote speakers or panel discussions here. This event is an invitation to participate, to collectively grapple with big challenges and explore new opportunities right alongside fellow farmers and local food advocates, together with similar communities from around the state. By trading ideas and sharing notes, you'll return home from this interactive weekend ready to get to work: to establish a collective buying club, to gather your peers and advocate for policy reform, to establish a skill-sharing bank, or to utilize your local Farmers Guild, Grange or any other group and together make the changes we need to build a fair, healthy and thriving local food economy. In short, what the Guild-Raising is... is up to you. And we're pretty confident that you'll do a good job of it.
Have ideas on the above topics? Part of an organization with resources to support them? Does your Guild have a sub-group of pasture-managers or have you been working with fellow Grangers on a new public education campaign? Get in touch! Your input is welcome. 
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