Field Notes: Winter 2007


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Winter 2007

Table of Contents	page
Kerr Center Receives New RMA Grant	2
Eliot Coleman at HIS	3
Excerpts from Closer to Home: Healthier Food, Farms and Families in Oklahoma. A Centennial Report.	4-14
A New Way To Look at Food and Agriculture: Community Food Systems	4
Good Food for Good Health: Combating Poor Nutrition and Obesity with Fresh Locally Grown Foods	5
Direct from the Source: Direct Market Produce from the Crows' Farm	11
Local-plicity: The Large Economic Multiplier Effects of Small Farms	14
Calendar	16

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