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Title: Well Fed Neighbor Market sells locally grown food
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Springfield News-Leader
URL Source: http://www.news-leader.com/article/ ... 31/BUSINESS04/107310337/-1/RSS
Published: Jul 31, 2011
Author: Wes Johnson
Post Date: 2011-07-31 16:21:48 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Views: 102
Comments: 6
Ruell Chappell's store wasn't even open yet, but future customers were already clamoring last week for 50-pound bags of wheat harvested from Theodosia. "This is non GMO (genetically modified organism) wheat," said Chappell. "This is heirloom seed that hasn't been altered. One person already asked me to hold back four bags for them." The bulk wheat -- and hand grinders to turn it into flour -- are a few of the dozens of locally grown and produced items Chappell will sell at the new Well Fed Neighbor Market. Located at 1925 B E. Bennett St., the store opened this weekend. It will be open today from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. It's the newest of several small stores that have opened in Springfield, aiming to provide Missouri farmers and ranchers a place to conveniently sell what they grow, raise or preserve. Chappell, perhaps known to music fans as a member of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils band, said he was inspired to open a local-foods store by friend and sustainable gardening guru Galen Chadwick. Both advocate the need for "food security" -- having a steady supply of food that's grown nearby instead of being shipped and trucked from thousands of miles away. "If we can grow more food here it will help the local economy by providing more jobs," Chappell said. "Eating locally grown food improves health and it conserves fuel, since it doesn't have to be delivered from long distances." A feasibility study zeroed in on the kind of customers the store likely will appeal to. "Those that want to live healthier, those that want to build a local sustainable economy, those that want to preserve the environment and those that believe the current system is going to crumble and they want to be prepared with their own food system before it does." Chappell said he has 10 Missouri food suppliers lined up so far who will provide fruit, vegetables, grain beef, pork and poultry. He'll supplement the product line with vegetables from his 15-acre Gateway Farm north of Fellows Lake. Chappell said he approached larger grocery stores with the idea of opening a small local-foods business within their stores. The idea didn't get much traction. "They didn't really see it as part of their business plan," Chappell said. "Why take a risk on that?" Instead, he searched for a business location that he could turn into free-standing local-foods store. He acknowledged locally grown food will probably cost a little more, estimating 10 to 15 percent more than at major grocery retailers. But he said his customers will be getting fresh food from local sources, knowing their dollars are staying in the local economy. "I want to pay producers more than wholesale prices," Chappell said. "As demand from customers builds I think more people will go into the business of providing that product." One of those is Drew Bradley, a farmer and dairyman from Fordland who will help supply the Well Fed Neighbor Market with vegetables. Having a store where he can sell his sweet corn, green beans, butternut squash and other produce "means I'll plant more," Bradley said. Chappell said he'll have a map in his store showing where every item comes from in Missouri. He plans to run his business with help from friends and family. "Right now I'm really just flying by the seat of my pants."
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It looks like I have a new place to buy groceries in addition to the farmers market. If people are serious about their opposition to corporate agribusiness then they need to spend their money in places like this and at farmers markets.
I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. - Benjamin Franklin
I have no idea the permitting/licensing that is required in MO, but I pray to God he got whatever it may be. Otherwise, he'll be swatted within the first month. This venture should be wildly successful.
Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson That's where "innieway" hangs his hat these days ... and he's talked some about this "well fed neighbor market"
"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." Frederic Bastiat Otherwise, he'll be swatted within the first month. Agribusiness is getting nervous I think. As is Monsatan. There is a growing backlash against the corrupt and filthy products they are producing. I expect that they will try to use the so-called "Food Safety Bill" (which is actually an attack on small farmers and producers of quality products). What people have to understand is that the attack on the food supply and the proliferation of toxic products is not really about money it is about depopulation. By providing a food supply that is both controlled and promotes disease and shorter lifespans the apparent goal is to increase the mortality rate from food borne and caused disease and disorders. It is hard for most people to think in such evil terms because most people, although often cranky and cantankerous, wish others well and they do not want to kill them or their children. However, the psychotic monsters now manipulating our society do wish to kill them AND their children. Food is also a part of the control grid being installed. If you think a father is going to watch his little daughter die of starvation even if it means complying with unjust and draconian laws think again. The kinds of controls being put into place are the kind against which a mass revolt do not work, and that IS, I am sure, part of the plan. So, rebel now, support farmer's markets and locally produced wholesome food. Fight back against the corrupt FDA and USDA. The FDA and USDA are NOT your friends and they are NOT in the business of protecting the American Sheeple. Thankfully I live in an area where the local model is already a resounding success.
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Amen and bump this one.
Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson
#2. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#1)
#3. To: Lod (#2)
#4. To: Lod, F.A. Hayek Fan, *Agriculture-Environment* (#2)
I have no idea the permitting/licensing that is required in MO, but I pray to God he got whatever it may be.
This venture should be wildly successful.
#5. To: F.A. Hayek Fan, *Agriculture-Environment* (#0)
#6. To: Original_Intent (#4)
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