With Iowa no longer the beef capital, what are our state’s special foods?
My aunt and her family visited Iowa from Oregon in the late 1950s. They wanted to eat Iowa beef at every meal. Iowa beef had such a national reputation then that it was revered from New York to the west coast. Iowa even had h
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The city of Fairfield has been selected by the Sustainable Iowa Land Trust (SILT), as the “pilot town” for a project to preserve local food farms.
This is the first step in SILT’s “Circle Our Cities” campaign. Their plan is to bring this program to 10 different cities and surround them with 10 farms whose sole purpose is local food production. Work is starting in Fairfield with a goal of preserving three local food farms close to town within a year. Fairfield was chosen because of its local heathy food system, management test-plot size properties and local SILT leadership. SILT Board President Stuart Valentine and advisors Francis Thicke and John Ikerd are all Fairfield residents.