All across the US
communities are exploring how revitalizing the local food
production industry can be a viable, effective, and economically
sustainable solution to the problem of economic stagnation.
The
Grow Your Own Meal™ (GYOM™)
first project seeks to deliver effective strategies to enhance
the competitiveness of Colorado’s specialty crops industry by
establishing innovative, sustainable and profitable, year- round
growing production practices. Our goal is to
seed economic development opportunities such as
expanded, year round farmers’ markets, fish and food processing
facilities, food distribution enterprises, organic fertilizer
producers, farm equipment suppliers, etc. all of which
will deliver economic benefit to our community and beyond
through job creation and small business development and
profitability.
Promoting local food production efforts and
facilitating the growth of the local farm and food product
economies that revitalizes rural and urban communities also
helps promote healthy eating with access to fresh foods and
ensures a readily available supply of safe food in an emergency
event. Growing the food production industry locally can be
vital to improving access to healthy foods for the traditionally
underserved, as well as providing on the job training
opportunities to counter act systemic unemployment problems
among the less fortunate.
Other ancillary lines of business to food production include
prospects for establishing new markets for food, building
distribution channels, food processing centers, and promoting
education and outreach on the value of healthy eating - all of
which are opportunities to develop new and improve existing
economic opportunities within communities. The
Grow Your Own Meal™ (GYOM™)
mission is fundamentally about empowering
economic development
with a focus on agriculture.
If economic revitalization based on agriculture is a key
interest of yours,
Grow Your Own Meal™ (GYOM™)
is an important effort to
support. |
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