I have attached some information from the Great Basin Food Co-op that is here in Reno on Wonder Street off of Wells Ave, for those who may not be familiar. It is a great local organization that encourages involvement and localally grown food.
Check it out, both online and in person.
http://www.greatbasinfood.coop/community/
We are officially incorporated as the State of Nevada’s first ‘Food Cooperative Association, we are proud to be teamed up with six certified local growers, one year-round hydroponic grower, one local conventional grower in transition, and several other natural growers. We won our first Nevada EcoNet ‘Golden Pine Cone Award’, we placed 2nd in the “Best Grassroots Organization” RN&R category, we just hired our first two paid staff member workers, our membership has increased to over 800, and we are now looking forward to implementing our first Point of Sale (POS) system at the co-op.
Great Basin Basket
Did you know that the average food product purchased at your local grocery store travels an average of 1,500 miles to get to your plate? That amounts to an unbelievable amount of resources used to feed us! As the distance between our food sources and us becomes ever-increasing, we at Great Basin Food Basket are joining the national CSA movement to regain control over our food, our health, and our environment.
About the Great Basin Food Basket
Like you, we at Great Basin Food Basket care about the quality of our food. We wish for the best local, most nutritious and fresh food available to us at a reasonable price, AND we want it grown following sustainable land practices and with organic certification. With this basket program, we support our local farmers and our local economy. With our CSA, we want to cultivate a community that sits down at a collective table to enjoy the best foods the land around us has to offer. We offer you a seat at the table and hope you will join us in celebrating good local organic foods through our Great Basin Food Basket program!
The Cafe and Diner "Brownies"
This is one of the 3 remaining original places of business that Yuma has to offer today. All the other oldies have been crowded out and out-competed by the big box stores and chain restaurants.
Local Folk, Local hang-out, for the more seasoned crowd that is.
This is Bobby Brooks owner of the great cafe and diner that we spent many hours drinking coffee and charming older gentlemen
Agriculture field, one of many
Yuma got it's start as an ag-town, now it is a subject of sprawl and risks losing a lot of fertile land to development.
You don't see decks like this anymore, and sadly you may not in Yuma for much longer either.
Wood deck, the picture really should be rotated to the right, that is how I like to see it anyway, so go ahead and give it the ol' head tilt.
Yuma sunset, time for the bar, I mean more field work
"The Spot", Historic downtown Yuma
We really did get a lot of field work done here, I will prove it to you later.
3 comments:
... and know that Starrs is totally appreciative -- as I expect other folks will be!
Thanks, for the info Kelly. After doing the reading, I would definitely like to start eating more locally. I am a hunter, and I eat what I hunt, and I hunt around here, is this considered eating locally also?
Thanks for the tip, Kelly. I was wondering if there was a CSA near here and like John, after reading the book realize just how far I have drifted away from the "me" who used to eat only locally grown and bake all my own bread, etc. I need to get back to basics and start thinking like the old hippie in me.
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