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 Greetings Collaborative INSIGHTS Readers,
Happy New Year,
It's a great time to reconnect.
Our readers constitute 12,000+ along the commercial food, beverage and
agri-products supply chain throughout the world. We hope that
Collaborative INSIGHTS continues to facilitate connections,
communication and collaboration that contributes positively to
sustainable business for our readers.
What's new with GFC? We recently celebrated our 5th Year Anniversary and thought it a good time to shake it up a bit. First, we will be expanding our profiles to include those of Hawaii and Washington State, while continuing to maintain a strong foundation here in Alaska.
Why? Many of our Alaska members already have significant business
supply chains that include Washington and Hawaii. There are
incredible synergies and we want to help support those through
Collaborative INSIGHTS.
What else is new? We'll be revealing that later.
In the meantime, please take some time with this newsletter and our website. We put the contact information at the end of articles INTENTIONALLY to help you to connect, communicate and collaborate.
The sincerest wish for the best of health and prosperity in 2010.... and hey, let's have fun, too!
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Gluten-Free: A New Lifestyle And Business Feeling a bit
achy? Painful muscles? How about fatigued to the point that it is
virtually impossible to recharge your batteries?
These were some of the symptoms that Janell Farnsworth experienced
while serving in the National Guard in Afghanistan. She knew it
couldn't be her age or physical condition. She had been a runner and
was conditioned to running in the guard. She was in her mid-30's and
the symptoms seemed off of what should be normal for her age.
By way of talking to others with celiac disease, she raised the
question about the possibility with physicians and was diagnosed nearly
2 years ago. Now, a healthier and happier Janelle makes taking the
path to a gluten-free life... a whole lot easier. More
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Hawaiian Farm Bureau Collaborates With Aloha Air Cargo
Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation (HFBF) members have gotten a boost from the latest
collaboration with Aloha Air Cargo for a special air freight discount
program. The discount provide HFBF members up to 35% off of Aloha
Air Cargo freighter service when shipping locally grown or 'Made in
Hawaii' packaged products.
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A Collaboration To Feed Hungry Alaskans
  Last summer, SeaShare sent its first shipment of seafood to the Food
Bank of Alaska. The first shipment consisted of 25,000 pounds of
canned salmon. The second shipment consisted of 30,000 pounds of
silver salmon, rapidly followed last month by two trailer loads of
nearly 63,000 pounds of canned salmon. This was a spectacular supply chain collaboration with kudos going to
many, but it certainly never would have happened without the quiet
stewardship of Reggie Buchanan, Food Resources Manager, Food Bank Of
Alaska and Jim Harman, Executive Director of SeaShare. More |
Culinary Studio Features Farm Business Owner As Guest Chef
Where
does your food come from? What are the ingredients? How many
handled the product between harvest and your home? The Pacific
Culinary Studio in Everett Washington features an especially
interesting Guest Chef program in February that gets right down to
it. Shelly Muzzall and her daughter Roshell, owners of 3 Sisters
Cattle Company, will be Guest Chef's preparing their own local grass
fed beef. During the evening they will introduce their farm, prepare
meals and give their 5th generation farm to fork story.
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Time To Place Orders For 2010 Wild Salmon
Although we're many months away from the first of Alaska's wild
salmon runs, it is not too early to source product that meets your
specifications. Now is definitely the time for conversations with
your suppliers about your 2010 buying requirements. Now is the time
to ask questions and be clear about your supply chain specifications -
providing you the opportunity to lock down your transportation and
handling.
As suppliers provide updates on their 2010 products, we will
post them here and in Collaborative INSIGHTS. But let's start by
unveiling of Copper River harvester, Bill Webber's "hot off the
presses" new label.
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Let's Talk Rhubarb Seeing red in 2009? So was Carol Kenley, but for a very good reason. With
great enthusiasm, "Let's talk rhubarb", says Carol. The rhubarb
plant is plentiful in Alaska and more recently harvesters, like Carol
are collaborating on ways to better utilize it for cutting edge health
and nutritional applications. Carol is fortified by the spirit of her
family's tradition - in fact they were Alaska's 2009 Farm Family.
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