August 1, 2008 - The Wallace Center at Winrock International, in partnership with the Training & Development Corporation (TDC), announced today their selection of ten U.S.-based local food enterprises to be profiled as part of Community Food Enterprise: Local Success in a Global Marketplace. The project is designed to highlight successful models of locally owned food enterprises from around the world.

"We’re in the midst of a groundswell of global support for sourcing and consuming local food. Locavore was Oxford Dictionary’s 2007 word of the year. But we still lack clarity about what 'local food really means," says Michael Shuman, lead author and research director for Community Food Enterprise and Vice-President of Enterprise Development at the Training & Development Corporation.

"Our Community Food Enterprise case studies help define what local food is –- and isn’t –- and showcase the incredible diversity of this industry here and abroad. From web-based cooperatives to public shareholder corporations, processing plants to restaurants, sustainable fisheries to unionized organic berry farms –- our case studies make clear that there is no one pathway to local food success," says Shuman. "But these enterprises have much to teach us about replicating what works and identifying untapped opportunities that can strengthen the local food movement."

Chosen enterprises include:

• Anna Marie Seafood, Dulac, Louisiana
• Appalachian Sustainable Development's Appalachian Harvest, Abingdon, Virginia
• Indian Springs Farmers Association, Petal, Mississippi
• Intervale Center, Burlington, Vermont
• Lorentz Meats, Cannon Falls, Minnesota
• Oklahoma Food Co-op, Norman, Oklahoma
• Organic Valley and Organic Prairie, LeFarge, Wisconsin
• Intervale Center, Swanton Berry Farm, Davenport, California
• Weaver Street Market, Carrboro, Hillsborough, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• White Dog Café, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Zingerman’s Community of Businesses, Ann Arbor, Michigan

One additional domestic enterprise and a range of featured international enterprises will be announced later this summer.

For the full press release, see here.

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