While listening to this podcast about urban agriculture, I began wondering why our local food bank doesn't contract with local farmers to deliver fresh, nutritious, local produce (including meats) to local families in need.
It seems to me that this is a much healthier, environmentally friendly, sustainable and community-minded way to feed people. For the price of 6 boxes of Kraft Dinner or Hamburger Helper, you could buy a good chunk of REAL food from a farmer.
Why should they wait for donations (let's face it-people often give the items they least like to eat) of corporate food when we have any number of struggling farmers right here in the county. That seems silly to me.
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