A Word From Our Farmer
Without the sort of outreach to community and young people, in particular, which the Food Literacy Project provides, it would be difficult to imagine the sort of reestablished and replenished local food community and economy toward which many of us are striving.
It is not only the food and farm focus that matters most, it is also the participatory element that the program so appropriately encourages.
If we aren't able to think of the possibilities for change on many levels and in an active way, beyond just adjusting our habits of purchasing food, we won't be able to rightly shape the sustainable food and farm future that is very much needed. Our industrial food system cannot be sustained and is unable to sustain us.
A young person planting a seed or pulling a carrot is an active and participatory demonstration of what are reasonable and sustainable parameters and possibilities for the future of food. It is powerful and important work.
-Ivor Chodkowski,
Field Day Family Farm at Oxmoor