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From Our Land to Our Tables: Celebrating Local Food Week

89.1 WBOI | By Julia Meek
Published September 4, 2020 at 5:09 PM EDT
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Marissa Renz, left, and Janet Katz agree that the most diminutive members of the small farm nation, urban farms like Marissa's Plant Happiness on the city's north side, provide a bountiful harvest of healthy, homegrown produce.
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The board of Northeast Indiana Local Food Network.
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A graphic display of Plant Happiness produce.
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Pigs in action at the Hawkins Family Farm
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Ben Hoffman and his Mangalist pig.
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Historic West Main Street Farmers' Market
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The many faces of local food.

The Northeast Indiana Local Food Network is celebrating local food culture and entrepreneurship in our region with its first-ever Local Food Week which begins on September 11th.

The Network comprises an eleven county initiative: Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Nobel, Steuben, Wabash, Wells and Whitley. 

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The Network's Online Local Food Guide provides a bountiful harvest of tasty information.

And this celebration of the local food from "Our Land to our Tables" is being hosted by nearly twenty different farms, markets and restaurants across our region.

Each tour, event or dining experience is unique and is designed to fit the current COVID-19 social-distancing guidelines.   

For a taste of what's in store, WBOI's Julia Meek invited its Founding Director, Janet Katz, and participating urban farmer Marissa Renz into the studio to discuss the importance of eating local, what's available here in Northeast Indiana and the impact these connections make on our community.

Event Information:

Northeast Indiana's Local Food Week
Friday September 11th through Sunday, September 20th, 2020

Find more information and a complete listing of events at the Northeast Indiana Local Food Network website.
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Arts & Culture Julia MeekArts & Culture InterviewsOrganic FarmingLocal Food Growersurban farmingNortheast Indiana Local Food NetworkPlant Happiness Urban FarmJanet KatzMarissa Renz
Julia Meek
A Fort Wayne native, Julia is a radio host, graphic artist, and community volunteer, who has contributed to NIPR both on- and off-air for forty years. Besides being WBOI's arts & culture reporter, she currently co-produces and hosts Folktales and Meet the Music.
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