We see that a Food Distribution Center would be located on one of many Community Supported Educational Farms which are the next evolution of the CSA. A network of farms that offer all of their products combined to the community at a location that the community would come to for recreation, education, community service and community rituals.

The Center would support a dialogue on the internet and in person between the local farmers and the community. The farmers need to coordinate the production of communities food needs and the community needs to know how and when they could support the farmers various and numerous labor needs, i.e. planting, weeding, harvesting and maintenance.

The Food Distribution Center would work best if the local farms were networked together with the Community Educational Farms and were owned by the community as a part of the Commons.

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The Local Food Distribution Systems working group is being moderated/facilitated by Spence Dickerson, of Spense’s Farm. Email spencetm AT aol.com with a brief message explaining your interest to sign up for this working group and/or to be added to the listserve so you can here about upcoming meetings.

Folks currently signed up for this group include:

Mary DeMare - mary AT chathammarketplace.coop
Cameron Farlow - cefarlow AT gmail.com
Debby Gross - devoyra AT aol.com
Katie Anderson - katanderso AT gmail.com
Spence Dickerson - spencetm AT aol.com
Sally Lee - sallyvlee AT gmail.com
Kalinda McClain - kalindam AT cox.net
David Hamilton - dsjhamilton AT gmail.com

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