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Written by Jared Thomson
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The summer schedule will begin at midnight tonight. You can click here or on the program guide menu item on the left to view the new schedule. We have a lot of new and exciting shows for you this summer, so be sure to stay tuned. This Sunday will be our first community show with Andy. Here is a quick outline. The show this Sunday's theme: Food - the vital community connection
Interviewees:
McCabe Coolidge & Karen Day (Portable Produce; Grow a Row; and, Share a Seed -- all activities designed to get surplus produce to shut-ins and families in need, Floyd County)
Jenn Kivlin, SHARE Food Distribution Program (Self-Help And Resource Exchange; nonprofit, nonsubsidized, bulk food distribution program; no give aways; families pay and do community service in exchange for fresh food boxes)
Polly Hieser, 651-3226 (Seven Springs Farm) (community-supported agriculture farm, Floyd)
Jeanne Schwanke (Blacksburg Farmers Market)
Megan Foster, Slowfoods (movement counterforce to MacDonalds, et al.)
Tammy Lemons, Backpack for Kids program (on weekends, provides youngsters who are on free lunches at school with a backpack of food to carry them through the weekend)
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