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Go Local – Moving Up the Food Chain
A good read on Food Service World by Cynthia David regarding local food. The article contains extensive quotes from our President, Paul Knechtel. http://bit.ly/j1VvnF
100 Mile Market and John Wilkinson MPP
John Wilkinson MPP and Minister of Research and Innovation and Brent Germin at Savour Stratford. Highlighting us as the recipients of the Premiers Award for Agrifood Excellence for Innovation.
100 Mile Market article in the Guelph Mercury
We are opening a new Fresh@Home Depot in Guelph this week. Read what the Guelph Mercury has to say about 100 Mile Market and our Fresh@Home program.
Guelph Mercury Article
Greenbelt Fund Grant awarded to 100 Mile Market
The Greenbelt Fund announced in Guelph ON, further grant recipients for the Broader Public Sector (BPS) project – the initiative to bring more local food to provincial institutions. 100 Mile Market is honoured to be part of this exciting opportunity to substantially support our local farmers and producers, improve the quantity, quality and nutritional value of the food available in the BPS and in the process raise the profile and awareness for the wonderful products we grow and raise in Ontario year-round.
The good folks at the Greenbelt Fund have prepared the attached release which provides more complete detail.
Greenbelt Fund Press Release
100 Mile Market Capitalizes on a Trend!
Read what Karen Hope of Marketing Edge Tips posted on her blog about 100 Mile Market and Paul's presentation in Red Deer.
Marketing Edge Tips
100 Mile Market’s first Fresh@Home customer!
100 Mile Market last week launched Fresh@Home, an on-line local food service for homeowners. Janice Newton of Kitchener had read an article about 100 Mile Market, and was looking for a way to access a full range of local food for her and her family, and she reasoned that if 100 Mile Market products have been the choice of top chefs for the last three years, the food had to be great!
She particularly liked the fact that she could choose from such a wide selection, the reasonable pricing, easy navigation on the website and that she could incorporate the pick-up into whatever her schedule was at the weekend. “My daughter will eat fish, but not meat, so the choice of products helps me do meal planning for all the family, and we prefer to eat locally whenever we can”
Paul Knechtel, President 100 Mile Market, congratulated Janice on being the first Fresh@Home customer within hours of the website going live, and Jim Mills, Fresh@Home Program Manager thanks her with a gift certificate for next week’s purchases. “This is a milestone for 100 Mile Market” said Paul Knechtel, “we are inundated with consumers wanting to find our products which are either not available or difficult to find in regular supermarket channels, and now we have a way to fill that demand. We plan to expand beyond our current Fresh@Home service areas of Kitchener and Burlington in the coming weeks, so it’s a win for our farmers and it’s a win for consumers”.
100 Mile Market promotes locally grown and produced food
Our President, Paul Knechtel, was in Red Deer, Alberta, and his presentation to the Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development’s food distribution was reported on in the Red Deer Advocate;
http://bit.ly/f5bq5o
Paul has had a great trip sharing what we do at 100 Mile Market, and just as importantly, learning about the local food scene out West and connecting with like-minded local food distribution pioneers. It’s terrific to see how much Canadians across the country want to know where their food is coming from, how it was grown/raised, and support our own economies in a sustainable way.
Eat well, eat local!
100 Mile Market on You Tube!
Our President, Paul Knechtel attended the Ontario Southwest Agricultural Conference this week, and he was interviewed about the 100 Mile Market story, and the interview was posted on YouTube!
Watch the video on You Tube
From the farmers to the foodies
100 Mile Market was recently featured in a Globe & Mail article by Jennifer Lewington. Jennifer spent a day with Rob Litwiller, one of our 100 Mile Market drivers. She experienced what it was like to pickup product from our producers and deliver it fresh to our clients. In the article Jennifer also gives a brief history of 100 Mile Market and its founders. She reveals why 100 Mile Market is "in the right place at the right time" and a few future plans.
For the full story and photo's please click the link below.
theglobeandmail.com/yourbusiness
The James Beard Celebrity Chef Tour
The James Beard Celebrity Chef Tour has been a US event until this year when it made its first Canadian stop in Toronto at Lynn Crawford’s Ruby Watchco restaurant, and the celebrity guest chef was Jonathan Waxman from New York. 100 Mile Market provided the local ingredients, and as you will see from the attached menu, everyone enjoyed a wonderful dinner and some great Ontario wines!
The James Beard Celebrity Chef Tour Menu (MS Word document)
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