BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 RDATE:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200510T184924Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200515T160000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200515T150000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200510T184924Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200510T184924Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250477014 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with PIE alum and Techstars alum J ulia Niiro\, founder of MilkRun. \;\n \;\nSee Julia's story about MilkRun at PIE Demo Day 2019 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbaIO9XltR g)\, her views on small local farms from TEDxPortland 2019\, and the exp losive growth MilkRun has seen due to the pandemic shared during Techsta rs Anywhere Demo Day 2020. \;\n \;\nMilkRun works with farmers and producers in Oregon &\; Southern Washington to break down the access barriers to local food. The national average for how far food travels t o get from the farm to your house is 1\,500 miles. That’s wild! We’ve cu t down our average to 35 miles and have designed a system that leapfrogs the industrialized food system. Less travel = less pollution. More acce ss to food = fresher\, healthier foods! \;\n \;\nIt’s not just abo ut ditching the grocery store lines\, it’s about keeping money in the co mmunity and supporting local producers. For farmers\, we’re able to prov ide 6-7x what they’d make from a normal grocery store. It should be as e asy (if not easier) to buy from local farmers as it is to order a cab or book a stay in someone’s house\, right? \;\n \;\n90% of the small farms in America right now are at risk of extinction. If mega-industria lized farming becomes our only option for food\, we’ll have no more farm er’s markets\, no more CSAs\, no more farmers who are stewards to the la nd. Without radical new systems like MilkRun\, the only options for food will be from huge corporations pushing profit over people\, and we just don’t want to live in that kind of a world. We can do this\, together!& #13\;\n \;\nRSVP / Submit questions: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/pie-f ounder-story-julia-niiro-milkrun\n\nTags: free\, startup\, startups\, en trepreneur\, entrepreneurs\, founder\, founders\, cofounder\, cofounders \, portland\, pdx\, community\, online\, crowdcast\, accelerator\, mento r\, Mentors\, julia niiro\, milkrun\, localmilkrun\, milk run\n\nImporte d from: http://calagator.org/events/1250477014 URL:https://www.crowdcast.io/e/pie-founder-story-julia-niiro-milkrun SUMMARY:PIE founder stories: Julia Niiro\, MilkRun LOCATION:Online: placeholder for on-line events\, SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR