{"id":210854,"date":"2010-01-21T23:56:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T04:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nourishedkitchen.com\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2010-01-21T23:56:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T04:56:51","slug":"10-ways-to-grow-your-foodshed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/210854","title":{"rendered":"10 Ways to Grow Your Foodshed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1. Start a community garden.<\/h3>\n

Gather a group of friends or like-minded enthusiasts of local food with the goal of creating a community garden.\u00a0 Together your group can begin the planning and eventual execution of a community garden.\u00a0 First select a series of potential sites.\u00a0 Consider petitioning your local government for space.\u00a0 Next, develop your application, rules and regulations and bylaws – those documents that will protect and govern your garden. Will you require adherence to sustainable growing practices?\u00a0 Read more from the American Community Gardening Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Offer to coordinate a CSA.<\/h3>\n

Consider working with a local grower to start a CSA.\u00a0 CSAs, short for community supported agriculture, provide solid support to growers by connecting them directly with their customer base.\u00a0 Customers pay growers in advance for a share of the harvest which helps farmers to cover initial costs associated with planting that they incur prior to harvest.\u00a0 Customers, in exchange, receive a box of fresh fruit and vegetables each week. Consider gathering a group of friends and approaching a local grower about starting a CSA.\u00a0 Once you’ve coordinated with a local grower, advertise for other participants by sending printing flyers or sending a press release to local media.\u00a0 Read more about starting and running CSAs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Volunteer at your farmers market.<\/h3>\n

Offer to volunteer at your local farmers market by distributing flyers, posting weekly signs, manning the information booth, assisting vendors with set-up and break-down or even conducting special events and children’s activities.\u00a0 A successful farmers market requires a lot of work and community support, so volunteering provides an excellent way to interface directly with both growers and the community.\u00a0 Find a farmers market near you<\/a>.<\/p>\n

4. Investigate farm-to-school programs.<\/h3>\n

Over thirty million children eat school lunch every single day they’re in school, yet school lunch programs fail to adequately nourish these children when they need nourishment the most.\u00a0 Moreover, school lunch programs often rely on substandard meat which puts the immediate health of children at risk.\u00a0 Of course, many schools don’t even have full commercial kitchens anymore making the actual cooking and preparation of food nearly impossible.\u00a0 Not-for-profit groups like Farm to School<\/a> are championing the cause.(…)
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1. Start a community garden. Gather a group of friends or like-minded enthusiasts of local food with the goal of creating a community garden.\u00a0 Together your group can begin the planning and eventual execution of a community garden.\u00a0 First select a series of potential sites.\u00a0 Consider petitioning your local government for space.\u00a0 Next, develop your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}