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Sarasota News Leader April 5, 2013 Hall went on to cite a different result of the same study, which found that every 5 percent increase in the amount of Sarasota's food budget spent to purchase food directly from a local farmer would add $40 million in farm income to the local economy. That means, he said, there would be an enormous combined effect on the local economy were enough people to meet the 10 percent challenge. Page 64 economy," rather than "a one-night-stand economy." There have even been discussions during Eat Local Week about what an eventual 25 percent local food boost would accomplish. "That could be potentially an added $200 million in farm income," Hall pointed out. "There's no proposal on the table for economic renewal in this community that's on that scale," he This transition, Hall joked, has been referred continued. "And we're just talking about 25 to by some as moving toward "a relationship percent; we're not talking about being like Lareina DePalma and other instructors from the Crowley Folk School organized booths and presented new skills to attendees at the Eat Local Week Festival of Reskilling at Phillippi Estate Park on March 12. Among those skills were vegetable gardening, beekeeping, composting and mushroom cultivation.