The LocalHarvest Blog
19 Feb Tue 2008
Community Food Projects
If you're like us, every time the Farm Bill is mentioned, an uncontrollable urge to drift away from the conversation overtakes you. You start wondering what's for supper, or whether the car needs an oil change. You'd just as soon leave the whole complex affair to the people who are paid to make sure it all works out.
Us too.
BUT.
It turns out that the Farm Bill is the funding vehicle for the Community Food Projects program, the country's major source of funding for community food security projects. And funding for the CFP is in danger of being axed from the final version of this year's farm bill. Though we rarely ask readers to get involved in specific political scuffles, we are devoting this issue of our newsletter to convincing you to do one thing: make three short but important phone calls. Read our article on the CFP and you'll see why this is a program well worth saving.
If you need a minute and a little boost of energy before you make those calls, grab an orange and read our nutrition and recipe columns. You’ll see below just how far beyond vitamin C those beauties go!
As always, thanks for your interest in LocalHarvest.org and your support of family farmers. See you next month, and until then, take good care and eat well!
