Impetus for Relocalizing Eugene's Food Supply: Ten Rivers Food Web

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Ten Rivers Food Web, 2007
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[one of the founders of the Ten Rivers Food Web, Harry MacCormack, will be speaking this Saturday, 5/3, at EWEB, 2PM; more in upcoming events]
How to use Eugene's neighborhood structure to relocalize food supply, from the Corvallis-area's Ten Rivers Food Web:
Want to get involved starting this in our area?...

www.tenriversfoodweb.org

IT'S OFFICIAL

Human beings affect the environment.

IT'S A FACT

Individuals can choose how they affect the environment.

In Corvallis, we are discovering ways we can make fact an

initiative that will benefit our families, friends and neighbors:

• We are bringing food closer to home.

• We are reducing the effect of distribution.

• We are stabilizing our local agricultural economy.

• We are doing all this on our own initiative
-with the help of Ten Rivers Food Web

Here are some possibilities already being discussed:

• a farmers' market in each ward

• community gardens network

• neighborhood gleaners

• community composting exchange with farmers

• home delivery

• micro-enterprises: baked goods, ethnic foods, etc.

• produce exchange

• CSA drop site

• group contracting for staple commodities

What possibilities can you think of?

Bring them to a Food Sectors meeting in your Neighborhood.

Contact groups@tenriversfoodweb.org

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