| Need a hand? Contact SCALE: |
(276) 628-4727 or flaccavento(at)ruralscale.com |
| Need a hand? Contact SCALE: |
(276) 628-4727 or flaccavento(at)ruralscale.com |
Growing out of both the success of farmers markets and this growing criticism related to their affordability, SCALE, Inc undertook a survey and analysis of farmers markets in six states in Appalachia and the Southeast during the months of September and October, 2011.
Learn more >“Economies, Communities and Love: Renewing the American Dream from the Ground Up?” launched Virginia Tech’s Community Voices series. Renowned author, David Korten, said “This may be the best piece I’ve seen on local living economies. This is great for community education. Watch it, share it, use it.”
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Provided design and planning assistance to emerging healthy foods value chain initiative, helping them build an integrated, field to table production, aggregation and marketing system. Currently providing training and TA to growers and to their demonstration farm near Charlottesville.
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Services included keynote presentation at the Center’s Annual Meeting, followed by intensive, on-site training and consultation with three regionally-based food system initiatives in Iowa.
Learn more >Provided a keynote presentation and workshops on building healthy foods initiatives, followed by training in building value chains and developing manageable food safety systems.
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Provided Training and TA to multiple local and regional groups in the Central Appalachian region, and completed research and analysis of College/university food procurement efforts, role of Cooperative Extension in local food systems, and work on regional wealth indicators.
Learn more >There‘s no more hopeful movement in the United States than the drive towards local food, and with it strong regional economies. As he has been for so many years, Anthony Flaccavento is at the forefront of this movement; if SCALE can go to scale, we‘ll all be the better for it.— Bill McKibben Author of Deep Economy, founder of 350.org, and Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont
Anthony Flaccavento has 25 years of hands-on experience in sustainable community development, along with a BS degree in Agriculture and Environmental Science and a Masters degree in Economic and Social Development.
Anthony has been a certified organic produce farmer for the past 15 years during which time he also founded and directed Appalachian Sustainable Development. He is the author of “Healthy Food Systems: A Tool Kit for building Value Chains” and over 100 published articles.
