Tri-State grocers, farmers discuss fighting food insecurity
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) — Grocers and farmers come together at the CK Newsome Center to talk about grocery trends, rising grocery store prices, how to keep Evansville fed and increasing food security.
Some ideas toward those goals range from storing food long term and giving people the sources to local foods.
Those key people in keeping Evansville healthy are working toward the purpose of leaving no one hungry, reducing food waste and having all residents know where their next meal is coming from.
Wednesday is about connecting the area's 80+ pantries with the city commission on food security.
'The relationship — making sure we alleviate food waste, making sure that we highlight our local farmers, making sure that we understand the trends because when prices of food go up, then that means more food insecurity goes up. And we as a commission need to know all these things,' says Lisa Vaughan who serves as executive director for Feed Evansville.
Nutritionists, farmers and food preparers are offering solutions toward alleviating that food waste.
'We're talking about saving foods. We can always can them, long-term storage,' says Genevieve McGuire from First Fruits Cannery.
Mary Winstead is one of those farmers here at the summit. She's with Local Source which connects producers with locally grown foods year round. It's also working to get more farmers into the business.
'There's no food without farms,' Winstead says. 'You can talk about food all day long, but if you don't have a farmer and a land space for that person to be growing, then this doesn't exist at all.'
Some of those trends in grocery businesses relating to budgets are that items like cereal, flour and potatoes are beginning to be sold in bulk. Some grocery shoppers are likely to buy seeds and plant instead of buying fully grown produce.
It's all ideas discussed which the commission hopes to implement in its strategic plan to Mayor Stephanie Terry and the city council.
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