We haven’t been eating as well, or as easily, here in New Orleans neighborhoods since Katrina – we still have to drive 30-45 minutes each way to get rudimentary food, as the markets have not returned, still mired in insurance litigation.
But now, in an urban environment, we have begun to see chicken coops and new gardens and renewed fruit trees (the avocadoes, bananas and limes on the card are from my yard), and a food coop. We are trading food, and importing what we cannot grow into a communal market. This card anticipates a day where we no longer need or want an outside “supermarket” in the neighborhood. We are whole without it.
I live in a small world.
J
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Jim Gabour
Author: Jim Gabour
