Community food summit promotes growing, eating locally

JOHN DODGE; Staff writer | Published August 19, 2011

Olympia – The cucumber harvest is in full swing at Sunbreak Farm at Overhulse Road and 17th Avenue Northwest. Aaron Varadi does most of the harvesting. Then his wife, Kandi Bauman-Varadi, takes over to do the pickling, adding garlic, dill and peppers also grown at the farm to create a locally grown food product available at the two Olympia Food Co-op stores.

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Capital Press

January 27, 2011

By STEVE BROWN

Community Dreams of Feeding Itself – Activist learns helpful lessons from community garden

OLYMPIA — Many communities across the West are dealing with food-related hardships: agricultural land under pressure from urban growth, increasing numbers of people looking to food banks for help, farmers struggling to pay their bills.

In Thurston County, Wash., food activists are gaining momentum in their efforts to develop urban agriculture to defuse these crises and become more self-sufficient in their food supply. READ THE FULL ARTICLE