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<title>Owens adds to community store accolades</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18822/20111123/owens-adds-to-community-store-accolades</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Nov 23, 2011) Congressman Bill Owens visited Saranac Lake’s new community store Tuesday. The first-community owned department store in the state offers basic goods - everything from underwear to bedsheets – things people in Saranac Lake had a hard time finding locally since the last chain department store closed nearly nine years ago.Organizers had sold half a million dollars in shares to get the business off the ground. The store opened its doors last month. As Chris Knight reports, Owens visit brought just the latest in a string of accolades. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18822/20111123/owens-adds-to-community-store-accolades">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Chris Knight</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Congressman Bill Owens visited Saranac Lake’s new community store Tuesday. The first-community owned department store in the state offers basic goods - everything from underwear to bedsheets – things people in Saranac Lake had a hard time finding locally since the last chain department store closed nearly nine years ago.Organizers had sold half a million dollars in shares to get the business off the ground. The store opened its doors last month. As Chris Knight reports, Owens visit brought just the latest in a string of accolades. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18822/20111123/owens-adds-to-community-store-accolades">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:keywords>photolead, economy, adirondacks, saranac lake, bill owens, buy local, retail, [loc:44.3294960 -74.1312662], topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Farmers Under 40: young farmers have market savvy</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17987/20110711/farmers-under-40-young-farmers-have-market-savvy</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Jul 11, 2011) It used to be dairy farmers in the North Country didn’t think too much about marketing their product or who would be eating or drinking it at the kitchen table. A truck owned by your co-op rolled up and emptied the bulk tank. Off went your milk to be processed by someone else.That’s still the case on many dairy farms. But in today’s diversified mix of organic and vegetable and pasture-raised livestock farms, things are changing. And Bernadette Logozar says young farmers are leading the way.  Logozar is the regional local foods specialist for Cornell Cooperative Extension.She told David Sommerstein farmers under 40 are using new tools like Facebook and Twitter and good old-fashioned word of mouth to market their own products. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17987/20110711/farmers-under-40-young-farmers-have-market-savvy">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: David Sommerstein</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It used to be dairy farmers in the North Country didn’t think too much about marketing their product or who would be eating or drinking it at the kitchen table. A truck owned by your co-op rolled up and emptied the bulk tank. Off went your milk to be processed by someone else.That’s still the case on many dairy farms. But in today’s diversified mix of organic and vegetable and pasture-raised livestock farms, things are changing. And Bernadette Logozar says young farmers are leading the way.  Logozar is the regional local foods specialist for Cornell Cooperative Extension.She told David Sommerstein farmers under 40 are using new tools like Facebook and Twitter and good old-fashioned word of mouth to market their own products. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17987/20110711/farmers-under-40-young-farmers-have-market-savvy">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>06:15</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>photolead, farmers40, agriculture, farming, technology, buy local, locavore, economy, environment, adirondacks, tijf, stlv, [loc:44.8486596 -74.2948983], topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Lessons from &quot;The Town That Food Saved&quot;</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17415/20110404/lessons-from-quot-the-town-that-food-saved-quot</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 4, 2011) Tonight and tomorrow, community leaders from around the region gather for the 9th Annual North Country Symposium.  They’ll try to learn lessons from a hardscrabble town in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.About ten years ago, people in Hardwick started opening businesses related to local agriculture.  Today, there are community-supported restaurants, a tofu maker, a seed company, fruit, vegetable, and meat growers, a food coop, and a not-for-profit composting agency.  Hardwick’s been featured on national TV, in the New York Times, and many other newspapers.Author Ben Hewitt wrote about the Hardwick revival in his book, The Town That Food Saved.  He’s the keynote speaker at the Symposium.Hewitt told David Sommerstein part of Hardwick’s success is owned to a spirit of collaboration and a diversified entrepreneurial economy. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17415/20110404/lessons-from-quot-the-town-that-food-saved-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: David Sommerstein</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Tonight and tomorrow, community leaders from around the region gather for the 9th Annual North Country Symposium.  They’ll try to learn lessons from a hardscrabble town in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.About ten years ago, people in Hardwick started opening businesses related to local agriculture.  Today, there are community-supported restaurants, a tofu maker, a seed company, fruit, vegetable, and meat growers, a food coop, and a not-for-profit composting agency.  Hardwick’s been featured on national TV, in the New York Times, and many other newspapers.Author Ben Hewitt wrote about the Hardwick revival in his book, The Town That Food Saved.  He’s the keynote speaker at the Symposium.Hewitt told David Sommerstein part of Hardwick’s success is owned to a spirit of collaboration and a diversified entrepreneurial economy. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17415/20110404/lessons-from-quot-the-town-that-food-saved-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>09:12</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>photolead, economy, environment, agriculture, farming, business, sustainability, buy local, locavore, food, vermont, hardwick, entrepreneur, business, jobs, st lawrence university, [loc:44.5047762 -72.3681622], topstory</itunes:keywords>
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