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Thriving local food farms that provide the majority of our food, while sequestering carbon, providing living wage jobs, and ensuring that economically disadvantaged areas, communities of color, and climate impacted communities have access to healthy food.
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Comments (4)
Our culture in not focused on small. The fine film about Wendell Berry, Look and See, comes at us with "Get Big or Get Out" as the message to small farmers. Education on the value of small farms is essential as is policy change through the whole system.
Support in place, start with growing staples including high protein beans and legumes; add cruciferous vegetables and you've got a healthy start. A living wage for farmers? Another education/policy issue. Small farmers are struggling and giving up. Heavy subsidizing for small farms would be in place. Mutual Aid gardens should be seen as normal (grow extra and share) with a U.K. style Allotment system also in place so each person has a plot assigned or available to grow food.
Cities to determine about how much food is needed (tons per capita) for its population, then builds local/regional sourcing. There should be no distinction due to income level, ethnicity: we all deserve healthy food and it should be available to all. Then we seek bigger, further away sources for missing items, say bananas. We don't want to give up bananas!
Implicit in this "vision" is the idea that most (90%?) of the food consumed in the County will be produced in the County. Which implies that much of the land surrounding our towns and cities will be given over to food-producing farms, fields, orchards, and gardens. And food-processing facilities.
...not to mention that factory farming is a huge producer of greenhouse gasses. Small local farms and gardens are the way to go.
Grammar edit: Climate-impacted communities (need hyphen between climate and impacted because it is a compound modifier)