Become a Local Food Activist
By Charlie Jackson

We live in an increasingly complex world in which change is a constant. It is often hard to know how to respond to distant and complicated events. Our food, for example, comes to the region from an average of 1500 miles away. We never get to meet the farmer, see the land being farmed, or have any control over the process of how our food is grown. In western North Carolina and in other Appalachian regions, we are rapidly losing our agriculture base, and we should be concerned. With the loss of local agriculture, we lose any control we might have over the way our food is grown, the quality of our food, or the environmental and social impacts of food production.

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