Inaugural issue of regional “To Market” magazine highlights Legal Food HubTo Market, a new magazine about food and the people who produce it, explores the Legal Food Hub by highlighting farmer and food business success stories and the dedicated attorneys who contribute their time and expertise to the Hub’s work. Read the article here and look for a hard copy near your local Edible publication. |  |
“Brattleboro Reformer” Focuses on Hub’s National ExpansionThe Hub plans to replicate its success in Massachusetts and Maine (and soon Rhode Island and Connecticut) by working with partners across the country to bring our model nation-wide. Read the article>> |  |
“Providence Business News” Reports Hub’s Expansion to Rhode IslandLocal food advocates in Rhode Island could be getting some legal help this fall, as the Conservation Law Foundation plans to offer free legal services to farmers and food entrepreneurs in Rhode Island. Read the article>> |  |
“The Boston Globe” Highlights the Hub’s Annual ReportThe Boston Globe explores how the Legal Food Hub’s great success in Massachusetts and Maine has paved the national expansion. Read the article>> |  |
Legal Food Hub Releases Second Annual ReportTo celebrate our second year, we’ve released a report detailing our impact and plans for expansion. Click here to learn more about our work providing pro bono legal services for farmers, food entrepreneurs, and the organizations that support them. |
Saintly Cider Seeks Assistance with Contract NegotiationBackground: Saintly Cider is a hard cider company owned and operated by Caleb Noble in Rowley, Massachusetts. Caleb fell in love with hard cider while attending college in Vermont and after graduation he began brewing his own. Two years and 47 batches later, Caleb perfected his champagne-style hard cider recipe and founded Saintly Cider to bring […] |  |
Delice Bakery Seeks Assistance with Business ExpansionBackground: Delice is a French bakery known for madeleines as well as pastries, cookies, and special occasion cakes. Blondine Jean Charles is the sole owner of Delice and operates her business out of CommonWealth Kitchen, a community kitchen in Dorchester. Blondine’s baked goods are so delicious that they are sold at local Whole Foods Markets. Legal […] |  |
Heritage Breed Farmer Seeks Assistance With Entity FormationBackground: Round The Bend Farm is a nonprofit, working farm in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, devoted to a collective vision of “a community of growers, educators and ‘agripreneurs’, who support themselves through food and farming businesses and nurture the public with real food and place-based education.” Geoff Kinder is a co-founder and farmer at Round The Bend Farm; […] |  |
Cooperatively Run Farm Becomes LLCBackground: A group of five friends cooperatively run the Streamside Farm located in Brooks, Maine, where the young farmers grow fresh, pesticide-free produce on about one acre of leased farmland. The produce has been growing in leaps and bounds – the energetic crew plans to double their acreage for the next growing season. Legal Need: The farmers decided to form […] |  |
Heiwa Tofu Comes to Hub to Purchase New Production FacilityBackground: Tucked away in the picturesque seaside town of Belfast, Maine, is a small business with a big idea. While teaching high school physics and chemistry, Jeff Wolowitz noticed a high demand for locally grown tofu. Struck by this need, he launched a journey to produce certified organic tofu and soymilk from New England-grown soybeans. Thus […] |  |