via WPR | 'Rural program aims to get more #localfood to residents'; helping farmers meet demand from local buyers: bit.ly/1M0MQdv

via The Minnesota Star Tribune | 'Hunt of a different sort when it involves #mushrooms'; ~5,000 varieties of #fungi grow in Minn.: strib.mn/1UG2kLe

via @ChicagoNow | 'Did you know there's a farm on top of McCormick Place?'; edible partnernship w/ Chicago Botanic Garden: bit.ly/1XVE72H

via farmanddairy | 'Homegrown apples—How to plant #appletrees this fall'; tips for planting, pruning & protecting: bit.ly/1NuW2tL

via Peninsula Pulse | 'Charlie’s Smokehouse turns #whitefish into gold'; the Voight family's craft of fish & fire: bit.ly/1LqZjUZ

via La Crosse Tribune | 'Area #orchards report high yields after exceptional summer'; #apple harvest is “fantastic": bit.ly/1OmHonu

via Crain's Detroit Business | 'Hungry for home—#Foodhubs meet growing demand for locally grown farm fare across #Michigan': bit.ly/1KkP7RA

via Crain's Detroit Business | '#FarmtoFreezer program reaps income, plants core skills'; @GoodwillNMI job-training initiative bit.ly/1VWMxFe

Kudos to the Bakery dept. @wfmdepaul which now offers #HilarysCookies, lovingly hand-crafted-from-scratch here in Lincoln Square #localfood

via Model D | 'Looking back on decade of growth in Detroit's #urbanag movement': bit.ly/1QBLwPV #KeepGrowingDetroit Grown in Detroit

"...we should be paying more for the food that #urbanagriculture provides and pay happily for it!" ~ Dr. Kami Pothukuchi Wayne State College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

via Good Beer Hunting | 'Critical Drinking—Gregory Hall of Virtue Cider'; the re-birth of an American craft #cidery: bit.ly/1Kf5xJW

"Everybody that was with us in the past left something behind... at Virtue Cider, and I’ll be forever in their debt" ~ cider greg #cider

via The Badger Herald | 'UW–Madison program partners with community to expand food options': bit.ly/1KigOXI UW Center for Co-ops #foodcoop

via The Gazette | 'Localvores rejoice! UI study shows surging popularity for farmers markets, #CSAs': bit.ly/1FOoYVS #localfood

via OnMilwaukee | 'Balistreri Sendik's Food Markets launch program to transform #oodwaste into energy'; uses Grind2Energy™: bit.ly/1iTH2ZO

via Des Moines Register | '#Organicfarms in Iowa increase as demand for specialty food grows'; 612 organic producers in 2014 dmreg.co/1KuOkxp

via Savage Pacer | 'The #garden that keeps giving'; collaborative cultivation by students Burnsville High School: bit.ly/1NBZ0uZ #growtogive

via Virtue Cider | 'Reviving the #CiderPig'; 7 Gloucester Old Spot pigs—a rare heritage breed—arrive at Virtue Farm: bit.ly/1WhBruz

Windy City awash in #cider: Virtue Cider pouring Green City Market's 'A Veggie Affair' & Taste Talks' 'Mother of Pearl' dinner Local Foods