To Harvest Moon Local Food Initiative,
We at USC Canada are very interested in what the Harvest Moon Local Food Initiative is achieving. We understand so well the complexities of starting at the grass roots level and providing a totally different model of food production and healthy ecosystem management. We support your enthusiasm for sustainable agriculture wholeheartedly. USC Canada has been part of sustainable agriculture worldwide for decades, through the Seeds of Survival program, which operates in the most marginal communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. These farming men and women, though far from Manitoba, have so much in common with what I have learned about Harvest Moon. USC Canada has also been fighting the uphill battle of cheap, mass produced and often unhealthy and unsustainable food systems, and supporting successful community ventures in local seed banks, organic/sustainable agriculture and small farmer cooperatives.
“Healthy Land, Healthy Food, Healthy Communities“…. This is where the world needs to go. This is what I see in the international work of USC. And it is the living, growing and vibrant work of groups like the Harvest Moon Society that is helping get it underway in Manitoba too! Where hunger, injustice and environmental crisis are looming, it is the community-based solutions, grounded in small scale, sustainable food systems that win out time after time : Manitoba, Tamil Nadu (India), Humla (Nepal), Sucre (Bolivia), Douentza (Mali) or Wollo (Ethiopia)… change is coming and it is about time. I am so glad that I was introduced to Harvest Moon Local Food Initiative and the next time one of our USC staff are in Manitoba, I hope we can meet you and learn more first hand.
Very best wishes and THANK YOU!
One person, one seed and one bite at time, change is on the way.
~Kate Green, Program Manager Nepal, India and in-Canada Public Engagement, USC Canada, 56 Sparks St. Ottawa, ON, K1P 5B1 CANADA (613) 234-6827 x 228, 1-800-565-6872 x 228
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