Is it possible to redesign our food systems in the U.S./Mexico borderlands so that they enhance the “caring capacity” of our lands and its communities? Can we increase that capacity so that we will be less apt to impoverish both the health of the land and the health of its multi-cultural communities than they currently do?” From: http://garynabhan.com/i/archives/143
Philip Ackerman-Leist poses this week’s prompt based on his FoodWorks Talk and in response to the above quote he featured in his talk:
As we look to finding leverage points for building community-based food systems, there seem to be three categories of solutions: entrepreneurial efforts, policy initiatives, and grassroots/NGO approaches. From your experiences thus far in VT/KY, describe an effort you are seeing in one of these three categories and analyze its (potential for) success and its challenges. Remember that analyzing failed efforts can be as illustrative as describing successful projects.
By the way: Some of the resources he referred to are now listed on the “What We’re Reading” page (under this week) in the Readings and Resources section: https://sites.middlebury.edu/foodworks/what-were-reading/.