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.
[permaculture] One Accord Food Pantry Inc,
Lawrence F. London, Jr., 09/28/2005