I’m not talking so much about the abundance of the food itself (although there are times of the year here when that is absolutely the case…), but I’m referring more to the sense of abundance I felt at a meeting yesterday of the MOFGA Education Committee which took place at Turkey Hill Farm in Cape Elizabeth.
Arrayed around a table in the beautiful old barn were no less the some of the shining lights that give me faith in the future of our local food system. Farmers, of course, school nutritionists (planting a 6000 sf school garden this year!), Cultivating Community, Slow Food, Rippling Waters Farm, Common Ground Fair director, Local Sprouts, MOFGA staff, the Eat Local Food Coalition, Cape Farm Alliance…. The meeting was held to look at expanding some of MOFGAs educational activities (in scope as well as, perhaps, in geography).
Weather it’s Maine food, local food (your local farmer/CSA) or the most local of all (your own back yard – permaculture and kitchen gardening), it is all critical to our abundant and rich future, not to mention to our food security.
