{"id":1737,"date":"2013-03-01T06:54:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T11:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2013-03-01T06:54:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T11:54:12","slug":"are-food-hubs-part-of-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/are-food-hubs-part-of-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Are food hubs part of the answer&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>&#8230;.we recently hosted a <span>roundtable<\/span> on the problems smaller producers face in marketing their grass fed beef.\u00a0 (see\u00a0below, &#8220;<span>Roundtable<\/span>:\u00a0Can I make money selling grass fed beef&#8221;)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We were a bit surprised that farmers markets didn&#8217;t come up.\u00a0 Several cattlemen we know have tried them and generally found them useful in building a customer base.\u00a0 Eventually, they tired of the commitment, of being tied-down every weekend, and settled for marketing from their farm.<\/p>\n<p><span>A better solution might be so-called &#8220;Food Hubs&#8221;, which are really a higher octane version of farmers markets.\u00a0 They have legal structure, and financial underpinning, but again require a real commitment from the participants.\u00a0 By coincidence the USDA recently published a report on the phenomenon and there are more Food Hubs than we realized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rurdev.usda.gov\/SupportDocuments\/USDAReportFoodhub2013.pdf\"><span>http:\/\/www.<span>rurdev<\/span>.<span>usda<\/span>.gov\/<span>SupportDocuments<\/span>\/USDAReportFoodhub2013.<span>pdf<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.we recently hosted a roundtable on the problems smaller producers face in marketing their grass fed beef.\u00a0 (see\u00a0below, &#8220;Roundtable:\u00a0Can I make money selling grass fed beef&#8221;) We were a bit surprised that farmers markets didn&#8217;t come up.\u00a0 Several cattlemen we know have tried them and generally found them useful in building a customer base.\u00a0 Eventually, they tired of the commitment, of being tied-down every weekend, and settled for marketing from their farm. A better solution might be so-called &#8220;Food Hubs&#8221;, which are really a higher octane version of farmers markets.\u00a0 They have legal structure, and financial underpinning, but again require a real commitment from the participants.\u00a0 By coincidence the USDA recently published a report on the phenomenon and there are more Food Hubs than we realized. http:\/\/www.rurdev.usda.gov\/SupportDocuments\/USDAReportFoodhub2013.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,53,21,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-marketing","category-on-the-soap-box","category-roundtable"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}