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Hey Mitch... I see this is for Oregon... 


See you this weekend at Awakening the Dreamer?? 


Becky in Manitou 

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From: "Mitch Triplett" <mtriplett@bctonline.com> 
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Sent: Monday, March 1, 2010 7:31:56 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain 
Subject: [permaculture] OT? USDA Food Atlas 

Greetings! Hopefully this will be helpful and/or informative to some of you 
out there. Peace. Mitch Triplett Tri-Pearl Family Forest Member - CCFFA/OSWA 
& OTFS Associate Member - FSC From: 
food_for_oregon-bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu 
[mailto:food_for_oregon-bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu] On Behalf Of Sharon 
Thornberry Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 6:20 PM To: 
food_for_oregon@lists.oregonstate.edu Subject: [Food_for_oregon] FW: FYI Food 
Atlas tool To help community leaders identify the food deserts in their area, 
USDA recently launched a Food Environment Atlas ( 
www.ers.usda.gov/FoodAtlas/). This new online tool allows for the 
identification of counties where, for example, more than 40 percent of the 
residents have low incomes and live more than one mile from a grocery store. 
Nationwide, USDA estimates that 23.5 million people, including 6.5 million 
children, live in low-income areas that are more than a mile from a 
supermarket. Of the 23.5 million, 11.5 million are low-income individuals in 
households with incomes at or below 200 percent of the poverty line. Of the 
2.3 million people living in low-income rural areas that are more than 10 
miles from a supermarket, 1.1 million are low-income. 
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Skeeter et al,

A woman I met in Durham, NC told me she teaches gardening and Pc to
inmates at a maximum security prison in North Carolina. They use Gaia's
Garden as the text and when she told me how inspired by it they were, I
felt very silly starting to tear up in front of a large audience. That's
enough to keep me going for a bunch of years. They have a prison garden,
I believe, but aren't designing the prison itself. I don't have her
contact address but know her name and could track her down via friends,
if you would like. Let me know.

On a related note, here we attempted to pass a resolution that half the
food served in Oregon prisons needed to be organic and grown or
processed locally in Oregon. It was overwhelmingly accepted, but the
Federal Trade Commission said it was "restraint of trade" by preventing
open bidding for food sales from other states, and overturned it. So
much for designing sustainability in the prison system.

Toby
http://patternliteracy.com

>
>
> I just received a request from someone seeking leads on anyone doing
> work around applying
> permaculture design to prison environments?
>
> Can anyone send me info on this?
>
> On a personal note, Yesterday I met with the police chief and
> jailer at the Flathead Indian Reservation (Montana) along with some
> other tribal
> staff and 2 other permaculturists to talk about setting up a food
> garden which the inmates could work at.  I really liked the police
> chief, as well as the other folks.  It sounds
> like they will go ahead with the project.
>
> The project is being initiated by a tribal member who is a permaculturist.
>
>
> Michael Pilarski
>
>