{"id":938,"date":"2014-04-06T04:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T04:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/06\/food-hubs-heart-of-the-local-food-movement\/"},"modified":"2016-01-30T05:49:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T05:49:55","slug":"food-hubs-heart-of-the-local-food-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/06\/food-hubs-heart-of-the-local-food-movement\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-938 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/06\/food-hubs-heart-of-the-local-food-movement\/attachment\/939\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3ldjiidha1tunfp4o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3ldjiidha1tunfp4o1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3ldjiidha1tunfp4o1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecori.org\/massachusetts-econ\/2014\/2\/8\/food-hubs-heart-of-local-food-movement.html\" target=\"_blank\">Food Hubs: \u00a0Heart of the local food movement Northeast&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>The growth of the local food movement over the past several years is no subject to debate. Farmers markets are an oft-cited indicator, and Massachusetts is a poster child for the trend. According to the state\u2019s Department of Agricultural Resources, the total number of markets rose 36 percent between 2005 and 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecori.org\/massachusetts-econ\/2014\/2\/8\/food-hubs-heart-of-local-food-movement.html\">http:\/\/www.ecori.org\/massachusetts-econ\/2014\/2\/8\/food-hubs-heart-of-local-food-movement.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>A \u201cfood hub,\u201d according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is an entity that combines production, aggregation, distribution and marketing of local produce in order to help small and mid-sized farmers reach markets that would be logistically difficult, if not impossible, for them to access on their own. \u00a0<\/span><span>In other words, food hubs help facilitate local food transactions by connecting the links in the supply chain \u2014 inputs, farmers, processors, aggregators, distributors, outlets, consumers and scrap.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food Hubs: \u00a0Heart of the local food movement Northeast&hellip; The growth of the local food movement over the past several years is no subject to debate. Farmers markets are an oft-cited indicator, and Massachusetts is a poster child for the trend. According to the state\u2019s Department of Agricultural Resources, the total number of markets rose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[241],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-food-hub-success","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}