Dear Carrboro Farmers Market and Durham Farmers Market, UNC Hospital and Carrboro Carrboro Community Garden, And Local School Lunch Cafeterias, and all readers of the blog.

Lets take our left over produce from the farmers market with us on our march. How do we combat obesity? We do a march for healthy food. We take our left over produce with us to places that need healthy food. Our march begins at the farmers markets and ends at our hospitals and schools becuase these places need healthy food.

We fight obesity two fold: we get exercise and we eat healthy. We can start a march to achieve both of these. To begin with members from our march can get free healthy food for joining on the march. Schools and hospitals have the purchasing power to make our movement a success. Fast food does nothing for us, it’s doesn’t pay and it isn’t good for us. If organizations start using there purchasing power to sell and buy healthy food it would be an amazing. Imagine fresh salads with cherry tomatoes, and lettuce grown year round in a green house. Hospitals can give their patients healthy food and also give them recipes on how to make them. Doctors can bring up diet as part of their regular discussion when they talk about health. They can also give away fresh produce.

By organizing as a community we can shift the market toward a more sustainable, local food economy. With our march we have the power to bring, healthy sustainable food into the mainstream. Our march begins at the farmers market and ends at the hospital. Hospitals have the purchasing power to buy healthy food, and they can make an impact on local farmers by purchasing from them in bulk.

The march we take with us union members because shifting to local food will open up green jobs in the field and in the kitchen. Our march does more than fight obesity, it improves the economy and creates culture. Through food sovereignty it creates healthy food connections between local farmers, food producers and cooks. Getting the ball rolling will help to open up doors in smaller businesses like restaurants, grocery, and food products. It all starts with a march.

It’s a march to make friends and a march to make connections in the green economy. Our march doesn’t just end after one march, it continues year after year. A march could be towards different things, it could be getting local heathy food available at schools or it could be getting employees at big businesses signed up for CSA shares. Our march is to get outside and make changes. Gardens for Earth is a place that can help us to organize a march.

Let’s hear your ideas about how to organize a march, in Durham and Chapel Hill.