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Looking For Local Food? Check out our Local Producers page and the Featured Local Producer.

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I stopped at the Batesville Farmers' Market this morning, May 23rd, and purchased beautiful fresh lettuce, spinach, radishes and green onions to make a tasty salad. I also found some wonderful handmade soap. Other growers were selling vegetable and herb plants and flowers, rhubarb, and eggs. Visiting with the vendors and other shoppers, I found that we were all craving a taste of spring. I hope to see more of the community at the market next Saturday. Chris

If you are looking for some farmers' market strategies, click here.

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Brookville Farmers' Market opened May 15th. Hours are Fridays, 3:30 to 8:00 p.m.

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Under the guidance of Richard Cartwright, FGA Steering Committee Member, one Batesville Community Garden has put down roots! Despite the rain, the new community gardeners were able to build their garden beds and begin planting. To view photos of the new garden, click here.

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If you were not able to attend the February 2009 Educational Seminar, The Journey to Local Sustainable Food, you can view photos and several of the powerpoint presentations given by the seminar speakers by going to Our Programs.

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FGA Receives Award

FGA was selected to receive the 2008 Indiana Healthy Cities and Communities Award. This award, established by the Health Promotion Office of the World Health Organization, recognizes the health care and community organizations engaged in health promotion initiative that improve the health of Hoosiers. The selection committee indentified particular strengths of the FGA including:

- Innovative program

- Broad collaboration among community organizations

- Demonstrated success

- A good example for others to follow

Thank you for your support of this vision.

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Our 2009 Membership Drive is happening now! Please join us!

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Farm Fresh CSA subscriptions are now being taken for the 2009 season. For more information, click here.
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Play a new Eco-Game sold at stores in Batesville and other nearby towns and increase your appreciation for Earth using a unique deck of cards that feature common plants and animals. Three Square for Earth Care is a rummy game played on a Tic-Tac-Toe Square of nine cards. Go to the card's website to find out what stores are selling this new game - http://www.threesquareforearthcare.com/. All proceeds from the sale of this game will benefit Michaela Farm in Oldenburg, Indiana. This farm has been a coop member of the newly founded Laughery Valley Growers, Inc. since its establishment in 2006 and participates in the CSA program of that coop.

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LOOKING AHEAD

New Evening Market

Beginning June 9th, come to the Green Market at Walhill Farm at 857 Six Pine Ranch Road on Tuesday evenings, 5-8 p.m. to buy fresh locally grown food by farmers who honor nature's way.

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FOOD SECURITY AND GLOBAL WARMING

The magazine Science recently featured an article detailing the vast, global food-security implications of warming temperatures. The implications of the article are clear that we need to be utilizing agricultural methods and crops that can withstand the potential myriad impacts of global climate change, especially warmer temperatures. The article significantly notes, "Because these regions are home to about half of the world's population, the human consequences of global climate change could be enormous." (See abstract at http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/323/5911/240)

Whether we believe global warming is part of a natural cycle or a man-made phenomenon is irrelevant. The bottom line is that the earth is rapidly warming, which will drastically affect our food supply. We must undertake both the enormous task of reducing our carbon emissions now to avert the worst, while at the same time adapting our society to the vast and multitudinous effects of unavoidable global climate change.