Attra - Sustainable Agriculture
Tootie's Tempeh: Bringing Organic Plant-Based Proteins to Local Consumers and Institutions
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:38:25
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Synopsis
In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Chris Lent has a conversation with Sarah Speare of Tootie's Tempeh in Biddeford, Maine. NCAT and two other organizations – Health Care Without Harm and the Plant Forward Future Project -- partnered to form a producer cohort in the Northeast to develop and market plant-based proteins to hospitals. The project is funded by a USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant, and Sarah is part of the producer cohort. She and Chris talk about sourcing beans from organic farms, using worker-owned cooperatives as a business model, manufacturing tempeh, and marketing plant-based proteins to both consumers and hospitals. They also get into strategies for helping plant-based protein food companies thrive in the Northeast. Related ATTRA Resources: Farm to Healthcare Farm to Healthcare Tipsheet: Procuring Local Food, Improving Health Scaling Up for Institutional Markets: Midwest Case Studies Other Resources: Tootie’s Tempeh Health Care Without H