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  • From: "Aliza" <realfood@wonderfulfarm.com>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Additional pressure on food availability
  • Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:33:06 -0800

And these are the communities that are in the most need for the community gardens, school gardens and victory gardens. That is the most important piece to the puzzle IMHO.

Aliza
----- Original Message ----- From: "Liz" <liz@allslash.org>
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Additional pressure on food availability


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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