Food & Farming
Growing, Eating (and Catching) More Local Food
October 25, 2017
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(Joanna Detz/ecoRI News)
New England wants to produce 50 percent of its food by 2060. How do we get there? What role does Rhode Island play?
Backyard orchards, gardens and livestock are key – as are decentralized harvesting, distribution and data collection strategies (to prove it’s happening). Some are working on this, but it will take lots more buy-in and enthusiasm to get to (and document) this 50%.
That said, the 43 year time-frame is entirely meaningless. Kind of like saying "my grandkids should do this, ’cause I’m not about to." Why are we pushing our goals off nearly 2 generations? How about smaller goals with 5-year windows?
Roger Swain and Lee Reich will be speaking about how and why to grow your own food at this event:
http://nofari.org/events/our-events/#.WfiLUmeouic