Bitterroot Valley Food System 
Community Food Project (CFP)
In a nutshell, our mission is to have more of the food that is consumed in the valley produced in the valley.
We are forming a Community Food Project Coalition. Our task is to assess the current food systems in the valley and design a more sustainable, local food production and supply system that fosters the economic health of our communities and farms, the social and physical health of our citizens, and the environmental health of our valley.
This is a project of Sustainable Living Systems (SLS), being funded by a USDA grant that is part of the Farm Bill. It is to help communities improve their community food security. Our Coalition meeting notices and minutes are on the Events Page. An 18 page Summary of the Community Food Assessment is on the Food Assessment page. And please read this Letter to the President by Michael Pollan. It lays out beautifully what is needed in our nation's food system.
It is time for all communities, world-wide, to take charge of their own food systems.
"For each percent more (state wide) that we eat of Montana-produced foods, we add about
$30 million to the state's economy." - - Bruce Smith, Extension agent for Dawson County.
We started focusing on building a Local Food System for two reasons:
- - because we saw the importance of building a local economy and a local food system is the key to a local economy,
- - and because industrial agriculture food is making us sick. The Western (corporate) diet = Western diseases.
To learn about the reasons to get off the corporate food grid, read the Mindful Eating Articles.
And...there is a local currency being started in the Bitterroot...Go to www.bitterrootbarter.com for more information.(hey....check it out.... what is this picture below made of? (there is another one on the Events page and 2 on each of the associated websites: Sustainable Living Systems and Bitterroot Food Co-op
