Common Roots aims to connect eaters with the growers of their food. Food that travels fewer miles and days between harvest and consumption has high nutritional value and is environmentally friendly. We aim to make it easier for schools, businesses, and homes to purchase locally, not just from our farm but from other farms in the area. Our first program involves collaboration with Bread and Butter Farm, The Farm at South Village, and Rockville Farm Market to engage South Burlington youth in growing food for their schools. Each of these farms also runs a CSA to provide community members with fresh farm products throughout the year.
Why are we doing this?
The average American meal travels 1,500 miles from farm to plate, approximately the distance from Burlington, Vermont, to Miami. Such practices pollute the environment, degrade the nutritional value of food, and disconnect people from their food source.
Food for Thought
Eaters must understand that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used... To eat responsibly is to understand and enact, so far as we can, this complex relationship. What can one do?"
"Learn what is involved in the best farming and gardening. "
