Nifty Blogs and WT opportunities: Local Food in Lorain County

At the BCSL I share an office with Food Policy Options Intern Avi Miner, a 2009 OC grad who does lots of awesome things with local foods.  Cool things that Avi does:

• He manages the Oberlin City Fresh stop, the local farm share program where you can sign up for a weekly bag of whatever fresh has come off the local farms
• He oversees private readings and Winter Term students who work on local foods issues
• He maps out where the food at local restaurants and the College cafeterias come from
• He researches important policy questions like:
• Can you have chickens/bees/other small livestock in your house in Oberlin?
• Can you have a vegetable garden in your front yard and not have the city mow it down for being over the limit for lawful lawn height? (this actually happened in Elyria)
• Then he takes these questions and finds out how we can change policy to allow these things so that people can grow more of their own food legally--because nothing is more local than your front yard.
• He bowls. Talk to him about bowling!

If you are interested in getting involved with Avi's work, come by the BCSL Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday to talk to him.  Remember: he can do private readings and winter term projects! You can also follow what he does and learn more about the local food movement at The Oberlin Food Blog:  http://oberlinfood.wordpress.com/