Slow food

Slow Food

In response to the readings; Slow Food is always a joy. Time can be a great restriction of this. Once a month several of my friends gather to “break bread” and share the month. The dinners are pot luck. We all take the time to create fresh home cooked food, though raw fruit and veggies are always welcome. We do not plan the meals allowing all of us to bring what we want. We do not do desert except on special occasions. IT IS THE BEST MEAL OF THE MONTH! Eating with friends and family is a joy that has gone by the wayside in many lives. There is no better gathering that can be shared among people.

I found “ Local Food and Agriculture” to be a positive step to developing local food supplies as well as addressing the hunger issue that comes with cities. Some of the items in the reading that I found interesting were; ABQ Ride Ensure that routes pass by farmers’ markets; add extra trips during farmers’ market hours and display information on the buses. Being a bus rider, I would enjoy this. Incorporate small gardens into early childhood development centers, is another wonderful idea. Why not senior center and community center as well? Use the city-sponsored after school programs to help! Create programs that enable edible landscaping and box gardens in all public housing. What no concrete jungle? All of the following ideas go hand in hand. Great ideas all of them; Focus the City’s forestry initiative on planting fruit trees. Put edible landscaping into all new developments. Include water harvesting for use in edible landscaping in all new development projects, planting edible trees in new landscaping, streets and parks. Add gardening projects and activities to summer camp programs run by Parks and Recreation department. If half of them work I believe we would be on a better path. Using “fallen fruit” could help our current homeless population to a better diet as well as a health hand up, which address hunger in the inter city.