Just on the cusp of famine, white truffles, leeks, and La Bonnotte potatoes are coming to the Back Country (Updated)
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Hooray!
Plans have been filed by the nonprofit Food Shed Network to open a weekly distribution site at the parking lot of the North Greenwich Congregational Church, for customers to purchase food grown in Connecticut. Subscribers of the network would pick up produce orders once a week, and some of the food would also go to local food banks.
The initiative, according to Rev. Karen Halac in the submission letter to the town planning department, would be a benefit to needy families in the region. She said the initiative would "bring farm fresh local foods directly to Greenwich families, with the agreement that any surplus produce (not collected by subscribers) will be donated to Neighbor to Neighbor, to the Food Bank of Lower Fairfield and/or to other food security organizations for the purpose of supplementing shelf-stable food donations with farm fresh produce for food-insecure families."
According to the narrative from the Food Shed Network and founder Ali Ghiorse, "Foodshed CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Greenwich is an emerging program of the Foodshed Network that provides all Greenwich residents, regardless of income, with nutrient dense food from the Northwest Connecticut Food Hub in Litchfield County, while creating a viable market for Connecticut farmers."
UPDATE: Not only will this generous gesture of noblesse oblige allow Alonzo and his new friends from Venezuela an opportunity and invitation to head north of the Merritt to assess homes and Lamborghinis worth revisiting on a moonless night, reader Ct Tempest provides this extra bit of color:
Was BSD being too tough on some community gardeners? Skepticism does seem merited.
From organization's website:
https://thefoodshednetwork.org/mission
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The industrial food system shapes the world we live in. Although food nourishes and fosters life, the system in which it is cultivated is fraught with deeply rooted practices of exploitation, beginning with the enslavement of Africans, the genocide of Indigenous Peoples, and extraction of soil, watersheds, and natural & social ecosystems.
Consequently, this colonized food system is a leading cause of racial inequity, diet related diseases, economic disparities, biodiversity loss, water pollution and depletion, soil erosion and climate change. It is designed to feed corporate profits, instead of the community culture it is meant to nourish and sustain while rural and urban food economies suffer from what has become a transactional exchange rather than transparent exchange, dependent on trusted relationships.
Our social and ecological systems can no longer withstand the industrial systems impact and therefore must be transformed so that people and the earth can thrive.
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