Local Food Hub
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The Local Food Hub is a nonprofit wholesale-food-distribution hub created in 2009 to provide food from local farms to area stores, restaurants, and other food-service facilities.
Additionally, the Local Food Hub coordinates charitable food donations from citizen gardeners and farmers and delivers them to service organizations.
Initial funding was provided by the Nelson County Economic Development Authority, the Piedmont Environmental Council, Coran Capshaw, John Grisham (Oakwood Foundation), BAMA Works, and the Blue Moon Fund[1]. In February 2009, the Albemarle Board of Supervisors declined a request for Economic Opportunity Funds[2].
References
- ↑ Farmer’s helper: Local Food Hub opens, Dave McNair, The Hook, July 16th 2009.
- ↑ Tubbs, Sean. "Board further refines criteria for economic opportunity fund; Has reservations on tapping fund for local food hub." Weblog post. Charlottesville Tomorrow News Center. Charlottesville Tomorrow, 5 Feb. 2009. Web. 22 July 2009. <http://cvilletomorrow.typepad.com/charlottesville_tomorrow_/2009/02/board_revises_fund_guidelines.html>.