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Finding Ways to Eat Local

WGCU | By Julie Glenn,

Published April 2, 2019 at 11:49 AM EDT

Local Produce at the Alliance for the Arts Greenmarket

In several locations in Lee County, including at Florida Gulf Coast University, tents and booths are erected by people selling locally sourced goods. Locals can buy fruits, vegetables, honey, candles, soaps, and many other items from other locals.

We're joined by Courtney Fraser, she's Executive Director ofEat Local Lee, a division of the non-profitInstitute of Culinary Awareness Research and Education, to discuss the benefits of eating locally. Itsnew resource guide and interactive map showcases local fish, meat, seafood and farmers markets, as well as farms and farm stands, breweries and distilleries. Nicole Cruz fromCircle C Farmsalso joins the conversation to explain how locally sourced goods contribute to sustainable dining.

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Julie Glenn

Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

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Mike Kiniry

Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.

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