Community. That seems to be an emphasis for many people who think about the food they eat. The community they live in, the land they live on or near. It seems to ring true for many people that the sense of community and enhancing it, embracing it and strengthening are all reasons to get involved in local food system issues.
When I helped to start our local community farmers' market, I was relatively new to the area we lived in. Four years later, I feel rooted there and have now lived there longer than I've ever lived any place in my life. The market when it is open (almost half the year on Saturdays, May to October) is a place to see your next door neighbor, or your friend who you never seem to get to have coffee with or the place to while away a summer morning and pick through the stalls, choosing what entices you to cook that day.
The relationships I've formed through the farmers' market continue to grow each season and will be broadened as this new initiative takes root. We will establish a system in New Jersey for farms to sell to school directly. I promise.
www.westwindsorfarmersmarket.org
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