Logistics: Our Local Food Blind Spot: Michael Rozyne at TEDxManhattan

Michael Rozyne is Executive Director of Red Tomato, a non-profit produce 'food hub' based in Plainville, MA. He's been marketing small farm products for three decades, including work on conventional and organic farms in Maine, and as Purchaser/Marketer for a regional food distributor in the Northeast.

In 1986, he co-founded fair trade coffee company Equal Exchange, now a leading US fair trade company. Rozyne started Red Tomato in 1996, to bring global fair trade principles to farmers in the US. His current obsession is finding a way to make local produce available in a grocery store near you.

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