Local Food Initiative
In response to the recession of 2009, Pax in Terra decided to help build sustainable communities here at home by helping those with no means of support grow their own food. By working with the Blessed Sacrament community, already working in the neighborhoods of Bridgeport, CT where some of the greatest poverty in the US exists, we were able to begin a long-term process of helping those without to grow their own food year round. Not only is this project teaching self-sufficiency, it is breaking the dependence on mass-produced, high fat and caloric content foods in favor of locally grown produce. The project, though small, has already spawned a number of efforts around the community. Pax in Terra intends to replicate this effort in neighborhoods across the country and is already working on developing a project in Toledo, Ohio.
