Housing Opportunity 2014 - Growing Healthier: Linking Housing, Food, and Community, Damien Thompson

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Damien Thompson, Regis University

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Linking

Residential

Development

and Food

Access

Through

Community Food SystemsFriday, May 1610:45 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.Presenter: Damien J. Thompson Ph. D, Regis University

Production: In 1910

approximately 72% of the

population of the United

States lived in rural areas.

Simply put, a little over one hundred years ago a far greater proportion of the population was involved in

producing some portion of their own food or lived in

close proximity to a food producer.

Subdividing Agricultural Land

Distribution: Supermarkets

Urban Agriculture: Social Cohesion,

Ecological, Individual and Community

Health

Beekeeping: Biodiversity

Intergenerational

knowledge

exchange: Social

CohesionLand remediation:

Ecological Health

On farm activities such as:

Community Based Food Systems

Cultivate Health

Location

Site Plan

Permaculture Pocket Gardens