Food in the City - Land for Growing Food
Click here for a Food in the City Brochure.Visualize a number of small gardens scattered throughout the city, glorious with bountiful fruit and vegetables, tended by the people who live next door and down the street.
Imagine that each neighborhood has a small neighborhood center with a teaching kitchen - where neighbors show each other how to prepare healthful, tasty, nutritious meals from the fruits and vegetables they have grown themselves; to cook and can, to freeze and dry and store the bounty of their gardens.
The neighbors gather in the meeting room of this center to share food and re-knit the fabric of the community: a restoration of the mixing of cultural traditions and experiences which is the foundation of this region’s greatness by re-introducing young and old, native-born and recent arrival, hearty and frail, expert and novice in common endeavor and mutual benefit.
The kitchen is also used by neighbors as an “incubator”, a place to start their own commercial food business, along with mentors with business experience who can help them start local enterprises like catering or turning their family’s favorite recipe into a commercially viable product.
Picture a community orchard and vineyard, trees and vines heavy with fruit, a hands-on learning experience for the local residents to discover how to care for fruit trees and vines and a source for canning and baking get-togethers at the neighborhood center.
Welcome to Food in the City
This innovative program brings together community growing spaces, community centers, neighbors and mentors to revitalize communities and restore people's ability to feed themselves.
