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  • From: Liz <liz@allslash.org>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Additional pressure on food availability
  • Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:23:37 -0500

At 12:12 AM 12/11/2007, you wrote:
But there are some businesses that are picking up the slack. Azure Standard
delivers all over the west. There prices are competative with my local
organic coop and the warehouse type store that stocks lots of organic
produce (local and national origin) and comercial foods. For a $400 minimum
they will make a drop with no shipping.

This is good to know, but the people I'm talking about are in poor urban neighborhoods, or isolated rural counties, often also poor--the coalfields of western Virginia and West Virginia, for example. Their food purchases are day-to-day needs--milk, butter, eggs, cheese, lunch meat, cereal, canned soup, etc.. Buying staples in bulk is not something you do when you don't have space to store extra and you don't have luxuries like a freezer. And they are often dependent on food stamps, so a purchase that required any of the very small amount of cash that many of them have would be out of the question.

Liz in SW VA
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com





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