*Please pass this invitation on*
Gather with other concerned and energetic citizens as we meet to
unveil the Northampton Food Security Initiative, completed by
Northampton Residents and Conway School of Landscape Design!
Thursday, March 11 7-9pm Thornes' Basement (Old Dynamite Records)
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The Northampton Food Security Survey grew out of our collaboration
with the Conway School of Landscape Design, the Western Mass
Permaculture Guild, the City of Northampton, Grow Food Northampton and
Transition Northampton. It seeks to answer how capable we are in accessing and producing locally grown food.
Do you have a garden? Do you store foods? Do you fish or hunt? Would
you like to eat local produce but can't afford to?
Take the Survey Now (takes 2 minutes!)
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PXJMKKK
Share what you know in the survey so that we may begin to collect
resources, connect people and re-connect with our food sources! As
food and fuel prices increase, trucking in our food is already for many and may become
too expensive for most of us to afford.
Eating locally benefits our local economy and our quality of life while supporting local
producers and each other! Pass the link along to everyone in
Northampton, because everyone eats and everyone
benefits from a stronger local economy.
You can check results of the survey at
http://growfoodnorthampton.com/
See you soon,
Seth, Lisa, Jenn, Lily and the countless others that have made this possible
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This is a link to a food security project done in Shelburne Falls
http://issuu.com/conwaydesign/docs/foodsecurity
The Northampton Food Security Initiative, a project of the Conway
School of Landscape Design and concerned Northampton residents, seeks
solution-based responses to the need for a local food system that
provides abundant, reliable, safe, and nutritious food for its
residents in the face of rising fuel costs. The outcome of this
initiative will be a community organizing document that makes
strategic recommendations for Northampton based on an analysis of its
potential ability to produce, process, and distribute food to all of
its residents, regardless of income.
