Food Bank center looks to end need for help

…Andrews said the need for soup kitchens, emergency food boxes and other such Band-Aid remedies to hunger can be reduced by having a community-based food system with community gardens, shared kitchens, and education about such food-preservation techniques as canning and freezing.

“The new era we’re entering is a more ecological approach to food, so it’s more a theme of sustainability in light of climate change and peak oil and the economic realities that those things are driving,” said Andrews.


He is the former executive director of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference and a board member of Heifer Project International.

He predicted that in the future, more local labels will appear on supermarket shelves. “It will bring us back to a more diversified food landscape, and I think that is already emerging as a reality,” he said.

Arizona Daily Star