This is a part of the picture, I am cultivating lots of these great kind of ideas in my soul garden.
my friend likes garlic. she also likes local. but the garlic she had seen at the supermarket were all grown far far away, so she planted some last fall because she knows it grows here. that’s a part of food security. remember that Halloween when the pumpkins were all sold out? all the ones that grew were gone and there was no truck bringing in any more? that’s a part of food insecurity – absence of supply.
food security is when all people at all times have access to enough food to meet their physical and cultural and economic needs, and the food is created in a sustainable, socially just manner.
the food system is everyone, from those who grow to those who make to those who sell to those who eat and the ground it grows from and the rain that falls and the trucks or planes or boats…
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