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Transition Blue Ridge:
Vision for a Resilient Food System

By the year 2015, our community will have made the transition from a fossil-fuel dependent, socially unjust, environmentally destructive industrial-aggricultural system to a sustainable, equitable, humand and locally self-reliant agricicultural system which provides safe and nutritious food to all members of the community.

This resilient and productive food system is a result of enacting the following initiatives.

• Promoting sustainable farming methods such as organic agriculture, permaculture, soil-building, composting and closed-loop processes.
• Educating citizens to grow their own food and supporting them to produce their own food products through the creation of community and urban gardens, intern-to-farmer apprenticeships, "Victory Garden" and "Food Not Lawns" initiatives, mobile abattoirs and community kitchens and canneries.
  
• Creating access to safe and nutritious food through support of farmers markets, CSAs, food buying clubs and cooperatives, farm-to-school programs and equitable food distribution.
• Supporting schools and institutions to grow their own food on site and to incorporate permaculture gardening as part of their curriculum.
• Encouraging policies that support small-scale food production by establishing scale-appropriate regulations and creating agricultural enterprise zones.
• Preserving our agricultural heritage by promoting the re-skilling of traditional cooking methods, food preservation and storage, heirloom seed saving, animal husbandry and the sharing of traditional plant wisdom.

To learn more click here to go to our Transition Blue Ridge website.