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		<title>New Site, New Blog!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed that the postings have dropped off in recent weeks on our wordpress blog. That&#8217;s because we have a newly redesigned web site that features our new and improved Local Foods Connection blog:
http://www.localfoodsconnection.org/blog/#blog
We&#8217;ve moved all of our blog archives over to the new site, so you&#8217;ll be able to search older entries [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=localfoodsconnection.wordpress.com&blog=654552&post=429&subd=localfoodsconnection&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://localfoodsconnection.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/new-site-new-blog/</link>
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		<title>Farm Work Day and Cards for Sale!</title>
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Sunday, June 21 United Way Day of Action &#8211; Farm Work Day
From coast to coast on June 21, the longest day of the year, United Ways across the country will participate in a nationwide &#8216;Day of Action&#8217; as a call-to-action for individuals to &#8216;Live United&#8217; &#8211; to give, advocate and volunteer on issues relating to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=localfoodsconnection.wordpress.com&blog=654552&post=427&subd=localfoodsconnection&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://localfoodsconnection.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/farm-work-day-and-cards-for-sale/</link>
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		<title>The season is underway!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi everybody &#8211; It&#8217;s Caroline here.  My apologies for the two weeks since posting last.  Now that warm weather is here and the CSA season is gearing up, it&#8217;s been busy to say the least.
I know that Laura has been overworked and underhelped in the LFC office.  And still, she&#8217;s done an amazing job setting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=localfoodsconnection.wordpress.com&blog=654552&post=425&subd=localfoodsconnection&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://localfoodsconnection.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/the-season-is-underway/</link>
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		<title>Clear Creek Women Landowners Meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clear Creek Women Landowners Meeting and Field Day
Women landowners in the Clear Creek watershed (stretching from Conroy to Coralville) are invited to the Clear Creek Women Landowners Meeting and Field Day on Thursday, May 28 from 2pm-6pm beginning at the Tiffin Fire Station meeting room (221 Main St., Tiffin, IA).  Women will gather with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=localfoodsconnection.wordpress.com&blog=654552&post=422&subd=localfoodsconnection&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://localfoodsconnection.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/clear-creek-women-landowners-meeting/</link>
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		<title>Art &amp; Ecology Exhibition May 13th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our friend Sarah Kanouse has forwarded the following information about her Art &#38; Ecology students&#8217; final exhibition.  If you&#8217;re in or near Iowa City, be sure to head over to the University of Iowa&#8217;s I-Gallery to catch the work of these talented students.  Sarah&#8217;s message follows:
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“Art Likes Ecology &#38; Ecology Likes Art,” an end of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=localfoodsconnection.wordpress.com&blog=654552&post=420&subd=localfoodsconnection&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://localfoodsconnection.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/art-ecology-exhibition-may-13th/</link>
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		<title>We want you!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We need you! Local Foods Connection has been short of volunteer-staff this past month. If you would like to volunteer in the office to help us through this difficult period, email us with options of times and dates you can come in and do some clerical work. Thanks!
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		<link>http://localfoodsconnection.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/we-want-you/</link>
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		<title>Great Food Blog from Vermont</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Caroline here.  A great friend of mine who hails from Burlington, Vermont just brought the blog Every Kitchen Table to my attention.  The blog is penned by Rob Smart, a resident of central Vermont.  You might enjoy his recent post, &#8220;Dear Julia Child, We Need You!&#8221; The blog also has an impressive links page with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=localfoodsconnection.wordpress.com&blog=654552&post=416&subd=localfoodsconnection&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://localfoodsconnection.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/great-food-blog-from-vermont/</link>
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		<title>Women Land &amp; Legacy of Jackson County</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Subject: Women Land &#38; Legacy presents An Estate Planning Workshop
April 23rd
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Women, Land, and Legacy of Jackson County will be hosting a very popular Estate Planning Workshop on Thursday, April 23, 2009, at the Comfort Inn in Maquoketa. The event will begin at 5:00 p.m. with the presentation &#8220;Who Gets Grandma&#8217;s Yellow Pie Plate?&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=localfoodsconnection.wordpress.com&blog=654552&post=413&subd=localfoodsconnection&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://localfoodsconnection.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/women-land-legacy-of-jackson-county/</link>
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		<title>MORE volunteer opportunities!</title>
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Local Foods Connection and Friends of the Iowa City Farmers Market Need You!
1. Volunteer to Read a Book or Watch a Movie
Local Foods Connection offers its clients opportunities to participate in educational activities to learn more about nutrition, food and farming. The activities in which our clients can participate include:

visit a farm
keep a two-week food [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=localfoodsconnection.wordpress.com&blog=654552&post=410&subd=localfoodsconnection&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://localfoodsconnection.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/more-volunteer-opportunities/</link>
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		<title>Women Caring For The Land Final Meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a letter from Laura Krouse announcing the final meeting of the Women Caring for the Land group.  Please join us on April 15th!

Caroline

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Greetings ladies,
The final (at least for now) meeting of &#8221;Women  Caring for the Land&#8221; is going to be Wednesday, April 15, 6:00, at Gwen&#8217;s  restaurant in Lisbon.  We had such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=localfoodsconnection.wordpress.com&blog=654552&post=404&subd=localfoodsconnection&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://localfoodsconnection.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/women-caring-for-the-land-final-meeting/</link>
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