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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW WEBSITE PROMOTES LOCAL FOODS, CONNECTS CUSTOMERS AND FARMERS UNITY, ME May 6, 2004 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- The Eat Local Foods Coalition (ELFC) announced today the launch of www.eatlocalfoods.org. The goal of the website is to help people in Maine to "eat local" by connecting them with their local farmer, farmer's market, and CSA (community supported agriculture) project. Eat Local Foods Coalition (ELFC) is a nonprofit coalition of individuals and organizations committed to promoting and increasing in-state consumption of Maine farm products. ELFC carries out its mission through a combination of networking, media activities, and occasional projects designed to: raise public awareness about the multiple benefits - social, environmental, economic, health, gastronomic - of eating local foods; change consumer behavior; remove institutional barriers; create alternative marketing and distribution systems. "Over the past 40 years, Maine has seen half of its farms disappear. Buying local helps keep money circulating within the local economy, and helps keep Maine farmers farming and Maine farms as part of the natural landscape," points out Roger Doiron, coordinator of ELFC. Russell Libby, executive director of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (an ELFC member), notes that "if we were to purchase as little as $10 worth of Maine foods each week, it would add up to $200 million staying in the Maine economy." Organizations currently participating in ELFC include: Farm Fresh Connection; FEDCO; Hancock County Locally Grown Foods Project; Maine Farms Project of Coastal Enterprises, Inc. (CEI); Maine Environmental Policy Institute; Maine Farmland Trust (MFT); Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA); Maine Sustainable Agriculture Society (MESAS); Unity Barn Raisers. The ELFC website is at http://www.eatlocalfoods.org. CONTACT: Roger Doiron roger@kitchengardeners.org Phone:(207) 883-6773 Mailing Address: ELFC, PO Box 188, Unity, ME 04988 |
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