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New Community and Economic Development Educator at University of Connecticut: Laura Brown

May 9, 2015

We’d like to extend a warm welcome to Laura Brown, who recently joined the University of Connecticut as a Community and Economic Development Educator. Brown, originally from Massachusetts, returned to the Northeast after nearly a decade in Wisconsin where she worked at the state and county levels on food systems and community development projects. We caught up with Brown to find out how her experiences in the Midwest will shape her work in Connecticut, and what issues she’ll be working on in the months to come.

Featured faculty: Matt Kaplan — seeing the silver lining in the “silver tsunami”

May 15, 2014

Communities throughout the region and the nation are bracing themselves for what some are calling the “silver tsunami” — the coming wave of baby boomers who will be entering old age. To Matt Kaplan — a professor of intergenerational programs and aging in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Education, and Sociology at Penn State — the “silver tsunami” can be a golden opportunity for communities.

University of Maine’s “Recipe to Market” program offers cross-disciplinary training to new food entrepreneurs

May 9, 2014

During the NERCRD’s 2014 “What Works” conference, Louis Bassano presented “From Recipe to Market: Helping Specialty Food Entrepreneurs Add Value to Their Agricultural Products.” We caught up with Bassano and his University of Maine colleagues to learn and share more about their program. Watch for more conference highlights in future issues of our newsletter.

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