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The Eat Local Fair: Meet Your Farmer event that we held at the Empire State Plaza in Albany on February 12th was a great opportunity for farmers to network and for consumers to find information on CSA farms and local livestock farms.  We definitely plan to hold the event again next year.

The 100 Mile Diet Celebration at the Albany Pump Station on Oct. 8th was a great success.  Over 100 people came together to enjoy delicious local food and to show their support for local food. 

The Regional Farm & Food Project and Honest Weight Food Co-op sponsored the event with food provided by Adirondack Creamery, Brown Cow Ice Cream, Bulich’s Mushroom Company, Cooper’s Ark Farm, Gordon Farms, Indian Ladder Farms, Meadowbrook Farm, Otter Hook Farms, Slack Hollow Farm, The Farm at Miller’s Crossing and Whitney Farms. 

We hope to do it again soon.

The 100 Mile Diet Challenge for 2007 is over at last!  We had an official tally of 76 people participating in the Challenge with many more participating in spirit.

Our co-sponsors were:

Honest Weight Food Co-op
SUNY Cobleskill
Capital District Local First
Terra Café at RPI
Sustainable Saratoga Springs
Troy Farmers Market
Capital District Energy Action
Troy Community Food Co-op
Otsego 2000
Rensselaer County Farmers Market
Hudson-Mohawk Socio-economic Collaborative
Roots and Wisdom

People in the Capital District have made tremendous progress in supporting locally grown food (and we here at the 100 Mile Diet Challenge like to think we’ve been responsible for at least a small part of that progress!).

Check out the weekly report on what's available at the Troy Farmers Market.