Meet Janie Burns, Local Food Champion
Janie Burns of MeadowLark Farms
At Behind the Menu, we pride ourselves on keeping it “light enough to travel” when it comes to our podcast and vidcast episodes. But while we certainly want to entertain, we also want to inform.
In keeping with the latter objective, we bring you this podcast interview with Janie Burns — a local food personality who many people know from the Capital City Public Market as the owner of Meadowlark Farms. But Janie also wears another hat as a member of the Treasure Valley Food Coalition (TVFC) — a “network of community members working together to create a sustainable local food system.”
In this podcast episdoe, we talk with Janie about the history of the TVFC, and more specifically about a June 3, 2010 event they are hosting entitled “The Real Dirt: Understanding the Food System of the Treasure Valley”. This is a presentation by economist Ken Meter that explores the economics of our food and agriculture systems in the Treasure Valley. We will learn how much money is spent on food in the community, where the food comes from, and the potential for economic development and job creation by eating more locally-grown food.
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