Wondering who can supply you with local berries in January? Or maybe you’re looking for pasture-raised pork for your home economics class? Or perhaps you’re looking for someone who needs local oats year round? Thanks to Get Fresh, a networking event hosted by Food Matters Manitoba, producers and purchasers are now better able to answer those questions.
“The event is really to, hopefully, build relationships between the food buyers and the producers, because I think the thing we’re missing is this relationship,” said Leanne Dunne, the ‘Manitoba on the menu’ co-ordinator for Food Matters Manitoba, and the organizer of the Get Fresh event held recently at the St. Norbert Community Centre.
She said that institutions such as high schools or post-secondary institutions may have interest in using more locally produced food, but face some significant barriers. Read More…
Shannon VanRaes
Mannitoba Cooperator
Published: April 17, 2015
