| 313 W Valentine, Glendive, Montana 59330 | 406-377-4284 | info@westerntrailsfood.com |
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| 313 W Valentine, Glendive, Montana 59330 | 406-377-4284 | info@westerntrailsfood.com |
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Western Trails
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Gift Boxes & Baskets customize your choice * 3 Pancake Mixes * 2 Meat & Bean Sauces & Buckaroo Bean Mix * 3 Cowboy Foods Cowboy Flapjack Mix Cowboy Grill Sauce Cowboy 6-Bean Soup
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NEWS Farm to Table Farm-to-Table Marketing Co-op www.farmtotablecoop.com You can get listed in the MonDak region local Buyers Guide. You can also now buy stock and be a member of the Farm to Table Cooperative to support a local sustainable food system in Eastern Montana. Download a form on-line or access the guide at the Farm To Table Cooperative website. We encourage a "locavore" diet, using foods produced in the area! If interested in joining, contact dawextn@midrivers.com
Community GATE gets $100,000 grant from the Northwest Area Foundation for their work building jobs through sustainable agriculture. Great Strides Press RELEASE 1/25/08 Farm to Table
Only 10% of food consumed in Montana is produced locally compared to 70% in the 50s.Virtually all farm products are shipped out of state to be processed and nearly all on-farm inputs are shipped into the region. The average food consumed in Montana travels 1400 miles to arrive on our plate. This downward spiral has led to significant population loss in eastern Montana over the last 50 years. The Glendive Horizons Farm-to-Table project is working to change that. A local food system would aid in the development of new commercial crops that producers would be willing to grow locally if they knew they had a reliable marketing outlet.
Currently in eastern Montana there are no processing facilities and no system to get the product to the customer in a marketable form. The integrated approach of this project will provide processing capabilities through a commercial kitchen and a combination of marketing devices for cooperative members within 150 miles of Glendive to market their products locally and beyond.
The Ag Marketing Cooperative will help get their products into restaurants, grocery stores, and institutions. www.farmtotablecoop.com Community GATE, the non-profit umbrella of Farm to Table is forming a producer-owned, integrated farm-to-table marketing cooperative that includes a shared-use commercial kitchen, farm-to-table restaurant, retail outlet and microbrewery located overlooking the Yellowstone River.
These farm to table volunteers, with the help of a VISTA volunteer, currently operate Western Trails Food. It’s a value-added food business that processes hulless barley and dry beans into soup mixes, barley flour, flakes, and pancake and bread mixes, and is introducing a new line called Prairie Home Cuisine. www.westerntrailfoods.com Their products are located in stores from Libby to Sidney
By integrating a shared-use commercial kitchen into the project, grandma’s chokecherry syrup or dad’s favorite salsas can be process locally and sold in stores. The Farm-to-Table restaurant along the banks of the Yellowstone River will feature locally grown foods that will be prepared by culinary students school under the direction of a master chef. Farm to Table has worked with Dawson Community College on a culinary curriculum that emphasizes business management and working with local producers.
Not only will we reap the benefits of fresher and more flavorful foods by choosing locally grown products, we are keeping our dollars within the local economy and supporting family farm operations that are so important to our local economies. Contact Bruce Smith, Dawson County Extension Agent at 406-366-4277 or the websites for more information. Glendive Project would boost regional agricultureFarm to Table program - http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/12/01/news/state/25-farm.txt
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