Dear Farm to Restaurant Team! I’m a little choked up today because our first delivery goes out today for the pilot distribution project. Tejinder called last night full of excitement and glee at the beautiful produce that arrived in Espanola and he is riding along today with La Montanita to ensure that deliveries are smooth. [...]

Watch this Slow Money Alliance video about where your money goes and where it SHOULD go. If you care about where your food comes from . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDoipQt3whU

And why should you care? For one very good reason: For all its coddling of Big Ag, the USDA has shown itself to be increasingly supportive of the growing local-food movement in recent years, while the FDA has long been very tough on small food companies, and shows no sign of wanting to encourage the [...]

Steps of the project Two groups have been identified. Each of the two groups will identify what they can bring to the table.  Producers will “design” skeleton structure of distribution system (price, quantity, products), essentially what to want to put forward to the buyers. We’ll bring two groups together on April 12 to hash out [...]

We have selected a small group of producers to be part of the “design team” for the Santa Fe Farm to Restaurant pilot distribution project. We made an effort to interview everyone who demonstrated an interest in the project and were very impressed with the variety of products and talents each of you brought to [...]

SFFM participation- Latest news that directly affects this grant project – Farmers Market will have a Thursday evening market beginning June 17, 3:00-7:00, which will make many restauranteurs happy as well as open up opportunities for a wholesale connection point and Cook with the Chef events. Stay tuned for more details as they become available.

First selection of core stakeholders- The FMPP VC project management team has compiled the preliminary list of producers and restaurants we will ask to be part of the pilot phase of the Farm to Restaurant distribution project. This has come about through phone calls, interviews and an online questionnaire of interested parties from both the [...]