Open-air market for locally-grown food launches in Carp
The goal is to convince consumers locally-grown food is good for the pocketbook and the planet — and to show farmers there's demand for it.
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The goal is to convince consumers locally-grown food is good for the pocketbook and the planet — and to show farmers there's demand for it.
Shannon Brennan Special to The News & Advance As sunlight sifted through the treetops onto the forest floor, a dozen hikers stopped to look up at the yellow-bellied sapsuckers courting above. This stretch of land in the George Washington National Forest in Amherst County is slated to be slashed to the ground, taking countless life forms above and below the soil for a relatively small amount of timber on this particular mountaintop. The U.S. Forest Service says the logging will provide early successional forest, which includes herbs, shrubs and small trees as the forest regenerates...