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ACT2: Local food security - Fort Collins, Colorado
One thing that I learned is that "food security" is not just about having access to enough food to not go hungry. It is having access to nutritiously dense non-corn based - diverse and healthy food. As I noted in my LEARN2 post - it can be expensive and not practical for lower income families to purchase such healthy foods. Therefore, in an effort to respond to what I see as an urgent local (Fort Collins, CO) food crisis I am going to join a local Community Supporting Agriculture (CSA) that will not only provide my family with a source of locally grown natural foods, but through my membership and the membership on others, the CSA will provide more than 40 local families that can't afford such nutritionally-dense foods with this same security.
The name of this CSA is Happy Heart Farm located in Fort Collins, Colorado. Thank you to the owners Dennis and Bailey Stenson for providing me with this opportunity. I learned about them through a local event put on by the Front Range Permaculture Institute who managed to bring Joel Salatin to Fort Collins last night. Wow! Joel Salatin is a great speaker. Very inspiring. If you haven't been exposed to his thoughts take a look a the movies Food Inc. or Fresh. And of course read his books! And visit his farm online or in person. What every you do don't let another day go by without listen to what he is saying.
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