I would love to see this happening in Fort Collins!
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Sue Sullivan
May 30, 2012, 2:37:45 PM5/30/12
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http://wakeup-world.com/2011/12/14/a-deliciously-resourceful-town-aims-for-total-food-self-sufficiency-within-7-years/
The police station carrots — and thousands of vegetables in 70 large
beds around the town — are there for the taking. Locals are encouraged
to help themselves. A few tomatoes here, a handful of broccoli there.
If they’re in season, they’re yours. Free.
So there are (or were) raspberries, apricots and apples on the canal
towpath; blackcurrants, redcurrants and strawberries beside the
doctor’s surgery; beans and peas outside the college; cherries in the
supermarket car park; and mint, rosemary, thyme and fennel by the
health centre.
The vegetable plots are the most visible sign of an amazing plan: to
make Todmorden the first town in the country that is self-sufficient
in food.
‘And we want to do it by 2018,’ says Mary Clear, 56, a grandmother of
ten and co-founder of Incredible Edible, as the scheme is called.
The police station carrots — and thousands of vegetables in 70 large
beds around the town — are there for the taking. Locals are encouraged
to help themselves. A few tomatoes here, a handful of broccoli there.
If they’re in season, they’re yours. Free.
So there are (or were) raspberries, apricots and apples on the canal
towpath; blackcurrants, redcurrants and strawberries beside the
doctor’s surgery; beans and peas outside the college; cherries in the
supermarket car park; and mint, rosemary, thyme and fennel by the
health centre.
The vegetable plots are the most visible sign of an amazing plan: to
make Todmorden the first town in the country that is self-sufficient
in food.
‘And we want to do it by 2018,’ says Mary Clear, 56, a grandmother of
ten and co-founder of Incredible Edible, as the scheme is called.
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