permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

One Accord Food Pantry Inc
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WELCOME
The girl in this photo is 5 feet tall, and these plants are not trees, 
they are red raspberry bushes which have been irrigated with fish tank 
effluent.
        

9-11-01 - We Will Remember

Started in 1989 in upstate New York, the food pantry began by feeding 
just 2 families who were sent to us by the local school district. Word 
quickly spread, and within 4 years, the number of families had grown to 
6,000 (or about 40,000 people per year, half of whom were children) and 
we were providing about 1.5 million pounds of food annually for their 
needs. Our catchment area also grew to 8 counties and 2 states, and we 
also shared excess food with other food pantries and soup kitchens.

Week after week and month after month we fed the same folks but there 
was no change occuring in their lives - we felt we were creating 
dependency. As a result, we started our agricultural educational 
programming to provide some measure of economic self-sufficiency and - 
since many of our families were involved in agriculture or owned land - 
to demonstrate alternative ways of creating additional on-farm income. 
The projects on this site are our attempt to effect the root causes of 
hunger and stem the loss of family farms.

So....welcome to our site. We invite you to grab a cup of coffee, look 
around and explore what we are doing. If you find an educational area 
you are interested in, or if you are already involved in one of our 
fields of interest, we would be interested in networking with you. We 
have spread some helpful tips throughout the site, so be sure to visit 
every page. Note: the tips are not necessarily in keeping with the theme 
of each page.