| Need a hand? Contact SCALE: |
(276) 698-8956 or flaccavento(at)ruralscale.com |
| Need a hand? Contact SCALE: |
(276) 698-8956 or flaccavento(at)ruralscale.com |
SCALE developed a five year strategic plan for the Greenbrier Valley Local Foods Initiative, assessing the local food system, analyzing approaches to building market demand and production capacity, and providing recommendations.
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SCALE worked with the Wallace Center in Washington, DC, Common Market in Philadelphia and Matson Consulting in North Carolina to develop a day-long Food Hub Training designed for emerging and early stage food hubs.
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Anthony Flaccavento provided a week of on-site training and technical assistance to area farmers, along with a brief capacity assessment and guidance to the Food Bank's staff and board members.
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Working with Cultivate South Phoenix (CUSP), SCALE developed a business plan to help guide their efforts to launch and operate a 14 acre urban farm in a working class and lower income neighborhood of South Phoenix.
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While the farm-to-table movement is underway across the country, one challenge remains in most places: finding a price that works for farmers and buyers. This study highlights eight food service businesses that have made this work, and offers a new tool for calculating the real price difference when buying local.
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The study examined the potential for a food hub in northeastern Kansas, with particular attention to how it might impact small to mid-size farmers in the 16 county region just west of Kansas City.
Learn more >There‘s no more hopeful movement in the United States than the drive towards local food, and with it strong regional economies. As he has been for so many years, Anthony Flaccavento is at the forefront of this movement; if SCALE can go to scale, we‘ll all be the better for it.— Bill McKibben Author of Deep Economy, founder of 350.org, and Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont
Anthony Flaccavento has 25 years of hands-on experience in sustainable community development, along with a BS degree in Agriculture and Environmental Science and a Masters degree in Economic and Social Development.
Anthony has been a certified organic produce farmer for the past 15 years during which time he also founded and directed Appalachian Sustainable Development. He is the author of “Healthy Food Systems: A Tool Kit for building Value Chains” and over 100 published articles.
