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First REAP Deadline on Feb. 21

The Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) helps agricultural producers and rural small businesses complete energy projects. Offering both grants and loan guarantees, REAP helps eligible applicants conduct energy audits and feasibility studies, install renewable energy systems and make energy efficiency improvements.

The first deadline, for energy audits and for renewable energy development assistance, is Tuesday, February 21.

For more details, see the REAP NOFA in the January 20, 2012 Federal Register.

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Building Local Food Networks - A toolkit for organizers.
Culinary Tourism in Ontario, Canada, Strategy and action plan, 2005 - 2015 defines culinary tourism.
Edible Communities Inc-Resources - This compendium of websites describes organizations, books, restaurants, farmers' markets, food artisans and lots more. There are Edible magazines for Aspen, Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Brooklyn, Cape Cod, Chesapeake, East Bay, East End, Grand Traverse, Green Mountains (Vermont), Hawaiian Islands, Iowa, River Valley, Jersey and Lowcountry.
The Indiana Foodways Alliance - This alliance was created after a commissioned feasibility study revealed 68 authentic rural culinary tourism sites in eight northeastern Indiana counties alone.
Learn Great Foods - This company plans agri-culinary tours and retreats in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri and Kentucky.
Missouri Regional Cuisine Project - Mississippi River Hills Pilot Region.
Tapping the Culinary-Tourism Trend, Restaurants and Institutions Online Magazine, Kate Leahy, 2007.

Links checked April 2010.

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