Today, a group of us from work, as a "We Care and Give Back" project spent the morning in Lincoln volunteering for The Food Project. You can read their mission on the website so I won't repeat it.
Whenever I do a WCGB project, I return to work with a new perspective. Priorities are seen in a clearer light.
Some of the statistics they told us about are pretty depressing:
- US has more prisoners than farmers
- Less than 1% (I think that was the number) of US are farmers
When did we lose this connection to the land? Why do we need to have food shipped from California, or worse, from Asia of Europe? Do we really need to eat strawberries all year round?
So many question, so few answers.
Anyway, go volunteer at The Food Project. You will be glad you did.
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