GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: Utne Reader

The Utne Reader named Michelle Ajamian and Brandon Jaeger of the Appalachian Staple Foods Collaborative one of “25 Visionaries Changing Your World”.   Ajamian and Jaeger are figuring out how to rebuild a farm-to-table regional system for staple foods such as amaranth, quinoa, buckweat, millet, black turtle beans, and heirloom corn.  Ajamian and Jaeger established the Appalachian Staple Foods Collaborative in 2008. This year they opened Shagbark Seed and Mill, a prototype processing facility.

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Featuring the Appalachian Staple Foods Collaborative, a grantee of the Sociological Initiatives Foundation