Encouraging  family farming and local food production.

Something like 3% of the food we eat comes from our own county. Three percent, in a Valley as fertile and temperate as ours!  The rest arrives on big trucks from far-off locations, and before long the price will zoom along with the price of diesel. In the meantime there are growing numbers of young people ready and eager to farm, County government can:

• Review land use laws to make small-scale farming more viable
• Connect rural residents with surplus acreage with qualified young farmers
• Join the growing effort to network small-scale farmers, Growers Markets, restaurants, grocers, schools and others, to build the demand for locally-grown food.
• Bring together groups trying to protect water resources and use water more wisely