5/19/15 Adapting World Crops into the Local Food System on Across The Fence

Farmers and gardeners in the Northeast have a new resource to help expand or diversify their businesses."Global Food, Local Food” is a publication from UVM’s Center for Sustainable Agriculture. UVM partnered with the New Farms for New Americans Program of the Association of Africans Living in Vermont. “Global Food, Local Food” is a guide to growing, harvesting and preserving African and Asian crops in the Northeast. The idea is to help local farmers adapt important crops from cultures around the world into the local food system. Guests were Ben Waterman, Coordinator of the New American Farmer Program with UVM’s Center for Sustainable Agriculture, and Alisha Laramee, a program specialist for the Association of Africans Living in Vermont’s New Farms for New Americans program. Across the Fence is the longest-running locally-produced program in the US. We have been on-air on WCAX-TV since 1955! Across the Fence is produced by the University of Vermont Extension. Visit http://www.uvm.edu/extension/atfence