Mission Statement: Our foundation stones are community-based programs focused on sustainable, local food systems that are respectful of the physical environment in which we exist. Our aim is to cultivate greater community by nurturing and supporting collaborative teaching and learning experiences, which connect and support sustainable agriculture, local food and active, healthy lifestyles.

"Eat local" has become the mantra for food purists, spawning new categories of peculiarly American diets: the hundred-mile diet, the slow-foods diet, the locavore diet. Buy your food from a producer you know, the argument goes, and not only do you revitalize a community of farmers, butchers, foragers, and cheesemakers; not only do you avoid those industrial foodstuffs known to contribute to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease; not only do you save the carbon emissions that would have been required to transport the same item thousands of miles; but you will find that the peach or tomato tastes better. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23153260/from/ET/