Abbey Huggan
4/16/2019 6:37 PM
Building resilient communities inspires me the most because of how organic farmers not only work hard to keep us eating healthy food, their farms provide habitat for complex ecosystems that large monocultural and pesticide-laden farms do not. We need biodiversity more than ever if our ecosystems are to be resilient in the face of climate change. But also, supporting local farmers means supporting people who are doing what they love and working outside (so good for mental health!) and mostly paying their working well, and also taking on interns and teaching young people how to grow their own food. Is there anything more empowering? And then there is just plain having access to food when transportation costs make all our imported food too expensive. We need to support the local farmers now in order to make sure the growers are there when we need them in the future.