America is losing the ability and knowledge to grow our own food. Our new generations are clueless as to how food grows and what it takes to produce the food we put on our table. There are only a very few of us that still experience self produced abundance. Because we are heavily reliant on corporate supply chains for our food supply, the production industry has become increasingly dependent on the use of unnatural and unhealthy practices to keep our supply chain functioning. In turn, we the people are fed food that is nutrient sparse and in many cases coated with carcinogenic chemicals. Without local community involvement, we are fully reliant on outside sources.
Additionally much of our public land is green grass lawn maintained using harmful chemicals. Grass maintained with weed killer is no longer sustainable. Green lawns should be replaced with healthy local food.
In order to achieve a sustainable future and a healthy food supply for our people, it is critical that local counties are incentivized to spend local funding on planting edible and medicinal fruit trees and shrubs on public grounds, and we should transform lawn type parks into public edible landscapes. Local government should lead by example and encourage local communities to invest in sustainable crops instead of decorative gardens, in addition to adding a seasonal community garden in public land areas. We should promote planting locally hardy and sustainable agriculture crops including perennial crops. Small gardens are just as important as high density farms.
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Local District Centers should be planted with edible and medicinal plants.
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Local Parks and Rest areas along major transportation routes should be planted with edible and medicinal plants.
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White House lawn should include a edible landscape zone
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Schools should promote and encourage classes and after school activities to encourage students to engage in local food production.
Goals:
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promote knowledge and awareness
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allow access to growing zones for citizens without land
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encourage local food production
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reconstruct how local ordinances use public land
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encourage and make easier for local communities to participate in local markets to promote a healthy local economy
6)planting with added awareness for our native pollinators
- lower regulations that make local production and distribution difficult
Exposure to the knowledge will empower the younger population to grow and thrive at self sustainability. To make America healthy again, we need to grow healthy food again, and to really make an impact we should make this a national effort.