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Harry Hamil

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Harry Hamil has worked for over 20 trying to make more local food available to local people. He developed the "Gleanings from Our Gardens" program at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville in the late 1980s. Through it, gardeners sold excess produce from their gardens with the proceeds going to anti-hunger projects including the Manna Food Bank. In 1995, Harry and his wife, Elaine, joined the Valley Garden Market, a tailgate market in Black Mountain, NC, and Harry began coordinating it with Elaine's assistance. In 2003, they reinvented it as a producer controlled market called the Black Mountain Tailgate Market under Elaine's leadership with Harry's assistance. In 2009, leadership was transferred to a new Executive Committee.

In 2003, the Hamils opened the Black Mountain Farmers Market, a store for local food, not a local food store. In 2008, they opened a small food distributorship to assist local growers in marketing what they grow. In 2009, that is being expanded in a joint venture with Leading Green Distributors to connect growers and retailers in or adjacent to a triangle with corners in Asheville, Charlotte and Greensboro, NC.

Harry's background of 35 years in insurance and financial services provides him with specific knowledge and experience that enables him to better understand the big picture and the details which create it.

The Hamils hope to relocate in 2010 in the vicinity of Grayson, Wythe and Bland counties in Southwestern Virginia.

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