Green Options » economic revitalization http://greenoptions.com/tag/economic-revitalization Posts tagged 'economic revitalization' Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:17:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en How to Save an Economy? Start Growing Food http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/10/08/how-to-save-an-economy-start-growing-food/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/10/08/how-to-save-an-economy-start-growing-food/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:17:26 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/10/08/how-to-save-an-economy-start-growing-food/ Saxo at Wikimedia Commons, public domain.)I can’t be the only one wondering what I’d do if the bottom really drops out of the economy and we’re all left to fend for ourselves. And the best answer I keep coming to is farming, as in growing my own — and others’ — food.

Well, it turns out farming has already come to the rescue of at least one local economy, as Marian Burros reports in a New York Times article titled, “Uniting Around Food to Save an Ailing Town.”

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