If you believe food grown right here in Wisconsin tastes so much better than all that not-from-Wisconsin grub, here’s some news you’ll enjoy.  Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin (or BLBW if you love a good acronym), a program designed to increase the sales of foods grown in our state, will no doubt yield positive results for local food growers.

How will it do this? One bit of this program is aimed at reducing certain hurdles that hurt local food sales, namely having to do with marketing, distribution, and processing. We're talking about $222,700 in competitive grants to support infrastructure of local food systems.

One such success story is Neesvig's (a food distributor based in Wisconsin), who received one of these grants in 2010. Since then, they've been able to distribute more of their foods to restaurants and stores, thus establishing more relationships and making more bank.

How could this affect Eau Claire? More tasty local foods! More stores selling these tasty local foods! More jobs needed to sell these tasty local foods!

For a person like me, who supports and enjoys Wisconsin fare, this seems like good news. I don't know, maybe I'm just hungry.