George Nemeth · Norm Roulet on local food

October 5th, 2008

Great thoughts from Norm. Make sure you click thru for his excellent pics too:

Until I started brainstorming about local foods with City Fresh’s Maurice Small, I never thought about the industry of food, and how much more sense it makes to grow and produce food for a community within the community – food for a home within a home. Considering taxpayers pay government to maintain huge amounts of “public space”, why is that space usually planted at our expense with grass and trees that do not produce food, when it would be less costly to make these lands farms, creating industry for individuals and feeding them in the process? It seems to make such sense. But then I stumble upon something that makes even less sense than not growing food, which is seeing fruit ripening on a tree in a place where people can’t afford to eat well, and people not reaching up to pick the free food and eat it… seeing hundreds of good apples rotting on the ground. That shows us how far we have strayed from a sensible society, and how much we need to change. Everything…

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  1. michael feigenbaum Says:
    October 7th, 2008 at 3:32 pm

    i am still amazed at the huge crowds at the local farm mkts. in the spring when there is only a little local food available and then in the fall when there is tons of great food the crowds get thinner and thinner. how to teach people when to buy local, cheap and abundant