Vegetable Growers Are Changing Planting Amounts [Poll Result]

Fast food giant and growers benefiting from special promotional partnership that puts local produce on the menu.

As the average American becomes increasingly ignorant about farming, you’d be wise to step forward and speak up.

Restaurant chain partners with the Florida Department of Agriculture to highlight locally grown produce in nearly 1,500 of its locations across the Sunshine State.

From bug buffets to backyard chickens, UF/IFAS experts cook up predictions for the coming year.

Medium-sized or smaller vegetable growers are often faced with different challenges than larger operations. Those of you producing […]

Recent mainstream media kerfuffle over local food legitimacy stirs up the need for more clearly defined terms, better awareness among consumers.

Economic payback measured from local food investments.

Restaurants want fresh, safe, and well-handled produce.

With Lipman Local, the Florida operation has developed a mutually beneficial program that sources local produce around the country and helps smaller growers raise their game.

Awards in the amount of $1,000 will go to help the winning operations pay for a third-party audit.

University of Pennsylvania Wharton School marketing professor David Bell was being interviewed on my local NPR station about […]

Meeting part of nationwide effort to train people how to attain grants for USDA’s Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion programs.

Inviting guests to your operation to dine on your crops provides you with a built in focus group as well as additional income.

Programs correspond with the operation’s harvesting schedule and packaging is designed to resonate with local consumers.

Nearly 100 independently owned grocery retailers are participating this year in a new marketing effort called OH So […]

  Since Tom O’Brien and his family moved to Florida from New Jersey in the 1970s, there has […]

Did you see the March 12, 2007 issue of Time magazine? The cover had a beautiful red apple […]

This past November, the New Oxford American Dictionary announced its Word of the Year for 2007. And that […]