HomeGrown Festival

Website: www.homegrownfestival.org

This grower has a photo album.

The HomeGrown Festival celebrates local food and community and seeks to focus broad mainstream attention on the community-wide benefits (and pleasure!) of eating from our own foodshed.

The HomeGrown Festival seeks to engage the entire community of Southeast Michigan around issues of food security, enjoyment and the environment by celebrating good food and local business with family-oriented fun and activities. The mission of the HomeGrown Festival is to serve as a catalyst in raising awareness of the importance and benefits of community food security.

Many indicators point to industrialized food production and globalized distribution systems as significant contributors to the climate crisis and to widespread health problems. A direct way for people to take action in their daily lives (three times a day!) to address these serious problems is through locally grown, sustainably produced food and products. Buying local food not only addresses environmental quality, but also increases food security and keeps dollars circulating in the local community by investing in the Michigan economy.