Growing Food; Growing Hope

It’s always nice to hear or read about the US helping impoverished countries in reducing their population’s hunger, either through food donations or by helping them to implement their own sustainable agricultural methods. It’s even nicer to hear about such aide happening right here on the home front. In an effort to help the hungry and give low income communities the ability to better establish sustainable food systems the USDA has again awarded grants to different universities across the country to help improve just such sustainable food system programs on a local level. A lot has been done on this front already, but as the number of hungry here in America continues to grow daily any effort to raise public awareness about the hungry and needy in our own communities needs to be continually addressed. Additional focus should be put on the value of local foods and helping farmers find profitable and sustainable farming methods in rural communities; and these grants should go a long way in doing just that. As a wise person before me once said, “Where food grows, so does hope”. I couldn't have said it better myself.