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Rumi Spice: Making Afghanistan and the World Better, One Saffron Thread at a Time

Posted on January 19, 2017 by FamilyFarmed

Those of us who are fully engaged in the Good Food movement get to work with a whole lot of bold people. But the co-founders of Rumi Spice, veterans of the Afghan war, are in a league of their own: They pay Afghan farmers a premium to grow flowers that produce saffron rather than the opium poppies that produce deadly heroin and finance terrorist organizations.

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Posted in Food activism, Food and community, Food Artisans, Food Entrepreneurs, Good Food and economic development, Good Food Business Accelerator, Good Food business developmentTagged Afghanistan, Chef Aram Reed, Community Dining, FamilyFarmed, military veterans and food business, Rumi Spice, Rumi Spice saffron, saffronLeave a comment

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Family Farmed is proud of the blossoming Good Food movement in our hometown of Chicago, so we put together a list of 10 Delicious Facts about Good Food in the Windy City (click on the photo to read the article). We want our readers to know what's happening in your hometown, too! If you would like to contribute a column about your Good Food scene, please contact bob@familyfarmed.org

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