Grant ID Number: CNE10-070
Grant Recipient: Sona Desai, Intervale Center, Burlington VT
The demand for local food invites collaborative marketing, distribution, and storage solutions that serve a range of constituents. The project manager will develop a farm-to-restaurant brokerage for local products that can be replicated elsewhere and provide technical assistance for quality, packaging, grading, and billing that is geared toward launching a collective brand. The goal is to broker $50,000 of produce from ten farms and be self-sufficient by 2012; outreach will be via project documents that support replication, including a case study of the first year of operation.
