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One thing I love about Seattle is the local farm culture. From neighborhood pea-patches to farmer's markets to the many local fruit stands, it's easy to eat locally and think more about the source of food.
Seattle also has groups like B-Sustainable, which acts as an information dump of sustainability:
But we need more. Information and availability isn't enough. School lunches are still imported with menu items that fail to teach kids about the value of food--and the source of food. When finished with their sloppy-joes and fried chicken, they throw away the rest without any reason to value it--Not that they will find much to value in food that was imported and fed on non-sustainable feed.
Dumpster Diving culture in Seattle reveals quite a bit about how we value food:
It's becoming a trend for college student income level citizens to find sustenance that has simply been thrown away.
But why not fill parks with fruit bearing trees and berry bushes? Why not grow food everywhere?
What we need is a group to take action and do this. Plant a cherry tree, an apple tree, a plum tree. Make it public. Make it free. Fill the city with food. Teach children that food comes from nature and needs to be grown. There are a few pockets of people around the country that are working to make this reality but it's a slow change. It needs a boost.
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Comment by Adam Eivy on April 5, 2010 at 11:07am
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