What are the real opportunities and gaps in the grass-fed beef industry in Texas? This report from New York (2015) may inform our work in Texas. If you have thoughts, please post comments below so we can all hear you. We talk about the need for meat processing facilities, but maybe we need to do […]
This sounds like a fabulous example of community development meets economic development .. Is local food the ticket to stronger communities? From “What’s Next for Pittsburgh?”, written by Emily Stimmel of Pittsburgh, PA. Chatham’s CRAFT offers (very cool) workshops with local food purveyors for public and students
We had a wonderful and very productive time at the TOFGA conference this year. Here are links to PDFs of our presentations. Value-Added Production with Jonathan Hogan of Wicked Good – Here’s the link to Jonathan’s PDF presentation slides about Wicked Good and here’s the link to a PDF of our presentation “Finding your Opportunity.” […]
We were honored to present on the topic of collaboration at the South Texas Producers conference in Corpus Christi. The conference was double the size of last year’s and that’s a testament to the dedication of the farmers, ranchers, and healthy food activists in South Texas. Hats off to the folks of GROW Local STX […]
This article from the marketing company, New Hope Network, cautions new products and/or brands to focus first on velocity (the number of units sold per point of distribution) rather than distribution (the number of outlets or ACV). In other words, sell some stuff!
