The 2010 Central Ohio River Valley (CORV) Local Food Guide will be unveiled 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, May 13 at Park + Vine, 1109 Vine Street. A donation of $1 per guide will help CORV cover all its costs for the printing of the guide.
The Central Ohio River Valley (CORV) Eat Local Food Guide 2009 is hot off the presses and now available for pickup at locations around town. For now it's available at the Whole Foods and College Hill Farmers' Markets, but the list of locations will grow in the next few weeks.
The Eat Local Food Guide, expanded for its second year, lists farms, farmers' markets, vineyards & wineries, restaurants sourcing locally, and farm markets in the tri-state area.
Central Ohio River Valley Local Foods Initiative (CORV) is holding a grill of local foods tomorrow (Tuesday June 10th) at the Whole Foods Rookwood farmers' market (2nd & 4th Tuesdays 4-7pm, Whole Foods Rookwood parking lot). Proceeds from the grill will help pay for the publication of the CORV 2008 Local Food Guide. Organizer Deborah Jordan says, "This could put us over the top for fundraising for this edition."
If you haven't yet gotten your copy of the 2008 guide, volunteers will be distributing it.
CORV's website is now live. On it you can find pdf files of local farms and local farmers' markets. There'll be other content soon!
The Central Ohio River Valley Local Foods Initiative (CORV) will release its 2008 Eat Local Food Guide featuring 63 local farms and 30 local farmers' markets this weekend. The guide will debut at Findlay Market on Saturday May 17th and Sunday May 18th and at the Enright Ridge Urban Eco Village Home and Garden Tour on Sunday the 18th.
According to CORV organizer (and CincinnatiLocavore contributing author) Susan Miller-Stigler:
Eating locally grown and produced food has so many benefits - our food dollars stay in our local economy, I get to know the person growing my food and be sure of the conditions in which it was raised. When I buy local food I support the health of the environment and of my family. This guide makes it easier to connect with local foodsources.
CORV is a grassroots effort to connect local community members with local farmers and fresh, healthy, local food here in the Greater Cincinnati area. In this age of fast food, factory farms and huge grocery stores that treat food as a mere commodity, CORV envisions a vibrant, ecologically friendly, sustainable local food economy that treats food as a gift of the land. The project had its start when individuals passionate about local foods connected at an event at Imago Earth Center. The project is funded by a grant from Community Friends Meeting (Cincinnati) and other sponsors. Enright Ridge Urban Eco-Village is serving as the project's mentor.
Pick up a copy of the CORV 2008 Eat Local Guide at Findlay Market or Enright Ridge Urban Eco-Village this weekend or request a copy from Susan Miller-Stigler. UPDATE: information in the guide is also available as a download in pdf format at the CORV website.
