Somerville Local First has embarked on a project to help local restaurants.  Due to many economic factors, the price of rice is skyrocketing.  We are working to organize local purchasing of rice to minimize the effect on businesses and on customers.  Read more about it here. And from the Boston Globe .

Check out this great article written by Mia Lamar with The Somerville News:

http://somervillenews.typepad.com/the_
somerville_news/2008/05/attention-shopp.html

You can also read this story about our new project trying to help local restaurants in a time of need. 

http://www.wickedlocal.com/somerville/news/x934424165/
Somerville-restaurants-forming-collective-with-hopes-of-getting-a-better-deal-on-rice