What is your vision for the food movement? How
have you contributed to this vision locally, nationally, and globally?
Just now, my youngest (5) asked me “What are you doing?” I told him I was writing; but, the real answer
is that I’m changing the world. This
would have been hubris when our family embarked on our sustainable farming
adventure ten years ago. Over the past decade, I’ve learned that sustainability
is as much about the support and involvement of community as it is about
farming practices.
Just as we are feeling the effects of Norman Borlaug’s “green
revolution” forty years hence, the eating and farming decisions we make today
will ripple into tomorrow. My vision is that
I help to teach people to eat thoughtfully with import and a connection to their
food and their grower. My hope is that my
small efforts combined with many others locally, nationally, and globally will
reach Malcolm Gladwell’s “magic moment” when it “…tips, and spreads like
wildfire.”
