The Mobile Garden Project allows anyone in Clatsop County to grow their own food. We will grow gardens in old shopping carts and loan them out to families, classrooms, retirement homes, etc., with the instructions and materials provided to grow food, and recipes with ideas for using the food. The nature of the project suits our community’s size, housing conditions, and limited access to sunlight. We hope that all these factors will promote community involvement, access to fresh food, physical fitness, education, empowerment, and stewardship. Look for us soon on kickstarter.com as we try to raise funding to support the purchase of soil, seeds and starts, tool kits, promotional materials, and a part-time project coordinator to launch this project.

Video courtesy of the Daily Astorian. Filmed at the 12 Days of Earth Day street fair in Cannon Beach, OR.

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What is a Food Web?

The term “food web” is used to refer to the feeding connections (what consumes what) within an ecological system, such as a stream, or a forest, or any other level of system you want to look at. For our purposes, we are looking a the food system of present day people in the pacific northwest, that’s US!

The North Coast Food Web includes what we eat, where it comes from, who grows it, how we grow it, transport it, process it,  package it, distribute it, sell it, gain access to it ( buying, trading, SNAP, growing, wild harvesting, hunting fishing…), prepare it, eat it,  and live through it. A community in which the food web is helathy and sustainable has a better chance of being a food secure community. Which begs the question…

What is Food Security ?

“Community food security is a condition in which all community residents obtain a safe, culturally acceptable, nutritionally adequate diet through a sustainable food system that maximizes community self-reliance and social justice”.

-Mike Hamm and Anne Bellows

Community Food Security Coalition