Food for Thought

Directed by the Rural Life Center at Kenyon College, this collaborative effort is developing a countywide food system to enable area farmers to market their products to individual consumers and institutional buyers including schools, hospitals, restaurants, grocery stores, and caterers.

Food for Thought builds on a decade of activity designed to strengthen the connections between the farm and nonfarm populations of our community.The Rural Life Center’s Family Farm Project (1994–1997) stimulated a broad public discussion about the significance of agriculture in community life.The growth of
large-scale corporate agriculture and the recent rapid expansion of metropolitan Columbus have placed considerable stress on area farms, an increasing number of which are targets for purchase by developers.