Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL

Why do we need more Urban Farmers in these hard ecconomic times to boost the food supply and counter future food shortages.?????

To find the answer scroll and read all the way down the END!

Personally ,I have witnessed so much of hard times to keep surviving.I have directed my younger brother thirty years ago to graduate with  a PHD in Agriculture .

I sensed at that time that there will be food shortages in the future.Currently I am a certified horticulturist teaching homeowners how to convert their backyards into productive gardens.

I have met so much of IGNORANT and DENYING and NOT SO MUCH SUPPORTING humans not to mention officials or people who are RICH in Material resources  -financial and otherwise, but POOR in VISION and judgement!.You are not one of them if you decided to find out why ?I am reaching out to you especially if you work with foundations or non-profit organizations that really want to do something to REALLY HELP .

I am not asking help from any profit or government organization because I know that HELP will not come unless lobbiests and influence groups or "Its Who you know" get involved!

I have access for none.Only my faith in the Lord and the goodwill of men and women who went through some kind of trials and struggles and know what it means to SEEK and Create Solutions not PROBLEMS!!!

I would mention that one of the community gardens was rendered and converted into a land fill by city officials who knew that the garden was supplying food donations to a local soup kitchen and neverthe less decided to kill it!

Other people  would use the community garden as a green wash or a political motive to influence voters and so forth.Why as a country so rich in resources we do not assign plots of neglected lands for people who are unemployed to create GREEN URBAN FARMING JOBS.???I hear that  MICHIGAN do that!Why not we have this practice nation wide?

I came up with a "Ten Common sense" reasons to create an Urban Farming Program to reduce the dependence on Food "stamps "and increase the "food"indepence by growing our own through :"A FARM- FOOT & ARM STAMPS":

1-Growing our own food will create more green jobs.

2-Growing our own food will reduce the NATIONAL deficit by reducing the welfare and food stamps and other governement aid programs budgets.

3-Growing our own food will reduce our dependence on imported food from abroad(China,Mexico etc..)

4-Growing our own food will ensure its safety as we will be the ones who control the growing,processing and distribution process not second or third or foreign parties!

5-Growing our own food will reduce our grocery bill significantly.

6-Growing our own food will engage our body mind and spirit in healthy outdoor regimen/exercises and improve the quality of our HEALTH tremendously as we will consume fresh and locally grown food.

7-Growing our own food will reduce the carbon foot print and help our environment by cutting on fossil fuel consumption to mention the least!

8-Growing our own food will reduce crime and increase  HUMAN REAL COMMUNICATION/UNDERSTANDING /,through social interaction among classes,races,neighborhoods etc..

9-Growing our own food will increase the AWARENESS of the "PRODUCRES'Versus "CONSUMERS"society and behaviours!

10-Growing our own food will avoid unnecessary social unrests and upheavals like the Arab Spring the roots of which started by the high increase of cost of living to say the least :The increase in the price of bread and gas like what happened in Egypt for instance or ...just by finding your own facts from the below documentary"Nine meals from anarchy":

http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/food-1/nine-meals-away-from-anarchy.html 

Do you want more REASONS?Go to:

www.localharvest.org/farms/M20618

and register in one of my Organic gardening classes!

T H E   E  N  D!