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Roundup: Pharma-food; local growers, local harvest

July 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Food in the news, local food, Roundup

My tax dollars at work. It didn’t get much attention in Kansas, but controversial pharma-food producer Ventria got a nice loan from me and my fellow taxpayers. Now they’re talking an over-the-counter product instead of saving third-world children. What a surprise! (The biggest report in the Wichita Eagle, mere mentions in KC Star, Lawrence J-W, nothing in the Topeka paper.)

Of marts and markets. Local food producers are underwhelmed by Wal-Mart’s plans to boost its local food purchases. (KC Business Journal)

Growing local. Interest in growing your own food is in full flower. (KC Star)

Growing Growers grows, too. The Growing Growers farming apprenticeship program gets some press. (Lawrence J-W)

Getting corny. Sweet corn—the kind grown for humans—is in the local markets. Toothpick, anyone? (Lawrence J-W)

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