Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Aliza" <realfood@wonderfulfarm.com>]

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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