Urban agriculture is a thing. Some believe that it could ease that food-insecurity (defined in yesterday's post) where a household is less likely to have abundance of good quality food.
One organization trying to do just that is Revolutionary Earth Farm. Recruiting homeowners, they transform backyards into food-producing gardens. Recruiting volunteers, they work those gardens and distribute the harvest to needy households.
U.S. industry is hugely successful at producing and distributing food. According to the USDA, about 89% of Americans have plenty of good quality food whether they live near a farm or not.
On the other hand, there are wasted resources in the system. San Francisco is an example: "Feeding the cities of the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area with a total population of some 7 million involves importing 2.5 to 3 million tons of food per day over an average distance of 500 to 1,000 miles." More food could be grown closer to the people who eat it.
Turning backyards from grass deserts into gardens makes sense to me.
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