Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Changing A Food System, One Seed At A Time: Part 3

From Not Knowing to Knowing

Changing A Food System, One Seed At A Time: Part 2

From Farms to Factory Farms...The system La Semilla is tackling has changed dramatically since the 1960s.



Changing A Food System, One Seed At A Time

Transforming a Sense of Possibility Into Systemic Change

It takes a certain kind of person—or, in this case, group of friends—to look at fourteen acres of dry, dusty desert in one of the poorest regions in the country and envision a way for a community to take the food system into its own hands. Meet the three founders of La Semilla Food Center in Anthony, New Mexico, a small rural community near the Mexican border.