{"id":327,"date":"2009-11-20T14:47:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T14:47:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-01-30T11:45:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T16:45:27","slug":"local-food-at-a-stand-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/food-faith\/2009\/11\/20\/local-food-at-a-stand-still\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Food at a Stand Still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 12pt\">\u201cThe local food movement is going nowhere.\u201d That\u2019s according to my friend Mike. Mike is an intern at a nearby sustainable, organic farm, and he told me this while we were sitting at a locally-owned restaurant eating grass-fed bison burgers raised on a different<br \/>\nfarm less than 30 miles away. I had to disagree with him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 12pt\">I live in Louisville, Kentucky (which was just ranked the \u201c10<sup>th<\/sup> fattest city\u201d in the U.S. in a very unscientific magazine survey \u2013 a big part of Mike\u2019s pessimistic argument). If this movement is going nowhere, then how are Louisville\u2019s 27 farmers markets staying in business?\u00a0 How was Rainbow Blossom \u2013 one of many\u00a0 nutrition\/local produce grocers in town \u2013 able to expand to their fifth location last\u00a0 month?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 12pt\"><a style=\"float: left\" href=\"http:\/\/presbyterian.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451b5a569e2012875bce3a3970c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451b5a569e2012875bce3a3970c \" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" title=\"Buy_fresh_buy_local\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/6a00d83451b5a569e2012875bce3a3970c-800wi\" alt=\"Buy_fresh_buy_local\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Here\u2019s more evidence that the local, sustainable food movement is alive and well. While I was channel surfing<br \/>\na few days ago, I saw a segment on Kentucky\u2019s PBS affiliate about a biodynamic farmer from Crestwood, KY who talked about the increased demand for their products. A week earlier, I was browsing the shelves at a movie rental store and noticed a prominently displayed section full of food and agriculture<br \/>\ndocumentaries like Food Inc, Fresh and King Corn. Jump back two weeks before that, and I\u2019m in a mostly full theater listening to Will Allen of Growing Power call this movement a full-fledged revolution. If he can fill a theater for an urban gardening lecture at 8:45 AM on a Saturday morning, I\u2019d have to agree with him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 12pt\">Growing Power is an organization in Milwaukee that produces fresh, affordable and healthy food in the middle of an urban food desert. A similar project is underway in Louisville called Breaking New Grounds. Louisville is also home to the <a href=\"http:\/\/presbyterian.typepad.com\/foodandfaith\/2007\/08\/the-food-litera.html\">Food Literacy Project<\/a> and Neighborhood House which received a grant from the<br \/>\nPresbyterian Hunger Program to teach children about the local food system and let them get their hands dirty in the vegetable garden. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/pcnews\/2009\/09713.htm\">Read about that grant<\/a>, or better yet take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/oghs\/09images\/PHP-grants-2008.pdf\">all of the grants PHP<\/a> has awarded to dozens of similar organizations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 12pt\">Maybe I\u2019m more optimistic than my friend Mike because I\u2019ve read all about those organizations, but I say the local food movement is on its way up\u2026 and fast. Maybe that\u2019s because it has nowhere to go but up. Mike was kind of right, the Center for Disease Control<br \/>\nput Kentucky as the 6<sup>th<\/sup> most obese state last year (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/obesity\/data\/trends.html\">see for yourself<\/a>).<br \/>\nMinorities are the most at-risk for obesity and diabetes. The agricultural industry is now more consolidated and powerful than it ever has been before (see the Food and Faith <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/food\/why.htm\">website<\/a>).<br \/>\nSure, things are bad now, but that\u2019s no reason to be pessimistic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 12pt\">Change starts with one person. So start buying local, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.localharvest.org\/\">find a farmers market\u00a0<\/a>and go to it, buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/enough\/\">fair trade<\/a> when you can\u2019t find it close by, and stay up-to-date about food\/agriculture legislation with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/washington\/subscribe.htm\">Washington Office<\/a>. The local food movement will only go nowhere if you let it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe local food movement is going nowhere.\u201d That\u2019s according to my friend Mike. 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