Invitation to Join "Buy Local NY"

Please Circulate Widely

An Invitation to Participate…

The New York State Working Group on Local Foods and Local Markets has established a yahoo group: Buy Local NY (BuyLocalNY@yahoogroups.com).

This yahoo group is for anyone interested in growing, processing, distributing, selling or promoting New York foods to New York consumers. It’s also for those interested in buying, cooking, preserving and enjoying the bounty of New York. Buy-Local stakeholders including but not limited to program facilitators, project coordinators, farmers, processors, distributors, food service directors, market managers, consumers, and others are invited to join this Buy Local NY yahoo group; which will focus on connecting farmers and consumers.

This group is facilitated by the New York State Work Team on Local Foods and Local Markets, which is supported by the Cornell Small Farms Program.

Work team leaders include:

• Martha Goodsell, Farmer, Fallow Hollow Deer Farm

• Heidi Mouillesseaux-Kunzman, Community Development Coordinator, Community and Rural Development Institute

• Andy Turner, Executive Director, Greene County CCE

• Todd Schmit, Assistant Professor, Cornell Dept. of Applied Economics and Management

•  Monika Roth, Agriculture Development Specialist, Tompkins County, CCE

• Challey Comers, Farm to Market Manager, Watershed Agricultural Council

• Becca Brier-Rosenfield, Agriculture Economic Development Specialist, CCE of Madison County

•  Bernadette Logazar , Rural & Ag Economic Development Specialist,  Franklin County CCE

•  Robert Hadad, Cornell Vegetable Program Specialist, Niagara County CCE

• Mary Jeanne Packer, Executive Director, NY Farms!

You can join the discussion on Local Foods and Local Markets by subscribing to the yahoo group. It’s easy. Simply send an email to: BuyLocalNY-subscribe@yahoogroups.com  Once you are subscribed you can post a message by sending an email to: BuyLocalNY@yahoogroups.com

I hope you consider joining the discussion.

 
--Martha