At last check, everybody eats, right? So food is one of the few items for which there is a guarenteed market. As we work to grow sustainable local food systems, we find a lot of opportunities for innovation, from youth growing food on vacant lots to family farmers growing food for Fresh Stops or farmers markets in urban neighborhood that have lost grocery stores.
Think about Steven Jobs fiddling around with circuit boards in his garage and how that led to Apple Computer. Most good innovations start with small-scale tinkering in backyards, garages, or neighborhoods. From the city to the country, people are innovating a many small ways to contribute to a more sustainable local food system. Local foods can be grown anywhere and any time. This is a rough cut of some interviews with some of the leading thinkers and doers along the southern reaches of Lake Erie as they look at the many opportunities for innovation in the local food system.
UPROOTED- INNOVATION PART I
UPROOTED- INNOVATION PART II
Interview compilation features Professors Ned Hill and Norm Krumholz from Cleveland State University's Levin School for Urban Affairs, Brad Masi from the New Agrarian Center, Maurice Small from City Fresh, and Punam Ohri-Vaspachi from Ohio State University Cooperative Extension.
What innovative ideas can you add of your own?
Food and Health in the City
How can we build a nutritional structure in our urban food deserts?
Saturday, April 5, 2008
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