1. A Model for Food Production and Distribution in Apache County, Arizona

2. Background 2010 Nutrition Course Graduate
2017 Apache County Master Gardener University of Arizona Cooperative Extension
Establishing Roots, Board Member and Garden Educator
2011 Permaculture Design Course Grad
2010 Nutrition Course Graduate

3. Apache County 2014 to 2017 - Concho Arbor Day Festival
2014 to Present - Founding Member of Concho Area Garden Club

4. I am dedicated to a healthy, rural, agrarian life style and willing to help others who are also interested and dedicated.

5. Food Desert =
Food Grown
Population

6. Growing Food America has solved this problem before Tested and proven
Scalable, repeatable, with redundancy
Requires little transportation

7. Distribution Uses existing infrastructure
Encourages healthy community interaction
Provides education and resources
Creates a local micro-economy

8. Be Part of the Solution!
" You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
~ Buckminster Fuller