SHAGBARK SEED & MILL

By 2009, the pair launched the Appalachian Staple Foods Collaborative (ASFC), and, with Rural Action as a fiscal sponsor, received funding from the Sociological Initiatives Foundation to assess the network necessary to build a staple food system in our region. Findings revealed that farmers with the know-how to grow were ready to step up, but the missing link was processing. With community support at every level, from counseling, to loans to wonderful meals, Shagbark Seed & Mill was launched in 2010... We've worked with area classrooms, food banks and pantries to find ways to bring good food to the folks who bear the greatest obstacles to healthy food, by developing a price class and donation program that gives food access programs rock bottom pricing, thanks to funding from the Wallace Center (pages 18-19), and partnerships with Community Food Initiatives, Live Healthy Appalachia, the SE Ohio Regional Food Bank, and regional schools and food pantries... Shagbark Seed & Mill has been..