Place-Based Foods and Viticulture
- Grape Expectations: A food system perspective on
redeveloping the Iowa grape industry, Leopold Center
paper that looks at Iowa's once thriving grape
industry and its potential today, August 2002
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Apples to apples: Iowa perspective on local food systems, Leopold Center report that looks at Iowa's once thriving apple industry from a food system perspective, October 1999
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Iowa Place-Based Foods, This web site tells the story behind a number of Iowa foods including Maytag Blue Cheese, Maasdam's Sorghum and Amana rhubarb wine. The site was developed as part of two grants from the Marketing and Food Systems Initiative,January 2007
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Consumer perceptions of place-based foods, food chain profit distribution and family farms [PDF], Report prepared for the Leopold Center by the ISU College of Business, October 2005
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Muscatine Melon: A case study of a place-based food in Iowa [PDF], Special grant project report, October 2004
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A Geography of Taste: Iowa's potential for developing place-based and traditional foods, Leopold Center report about Iowa's unique food heritage, October 2004
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Geographical Indicated Products in The Netherlands [PDF], report by student intern from Wageningen University in The Netherlands, September 2004
- Map of Iowa
Vineyard and
Native Wineries
Prepared by ISU
Extension, with
more information
on the
ISU Viticulture
page.
September 2006
- Missouri
Regional
Cuisines Project
A project of the
University of
Missouri
Extension that
seeks to market
Missouri wine
and food
products using
distinct labels
of origin based
on ecological
regions of the
state.
- Wine
budget workbooks
People
interested in
establishing a
vineyard or
winery can
download two
workbooks,
Ten-Year Winery
Financial
Planning
Workbook and
Cost to
Establish a
Vineyard
Workbook, to
determine
feasibility and
costs. Developed
by the
Agricultural
Marketing
Resource Center
(AgMRC) and the
ISU Extension
Value-Added
Agriculture
Program with a
grant from the
Leopold Center
Marketing
Initiative,
October 2005.
Wine Resources
brochure
[PDF]
- The Total Wine
Package A
four-part video
answers key
questions about
starting a
vineyard of
winery business.
Available as
streaming video
on the Internet,
or in DVD format
by request from
Craig Tordsen,
(515) 294-1938.
This project was
funded by the
Leopold Center's
Marketing and
Food Systems
Initiative and
developed by ISU
Extension's
Value-Added
Agriculture
Program and
the Agricultural
Marketing
Resource Center
at ISU. March
2005.
Wine Resources
brochure
[PDF]
