Deep Roots Food Hub hosts community potluck April 8

CARP – Join the Deep Roots Food Hub (DRFH) for a community potluck focusing on local food sources as a sustainable way to help battle climate change.

The DRFH is hosting a community potluck Tuesday, April 8 starting at 5:30 p.m. at the West Carleton Amateur Sports Club just above the Carp arena (3832 Carp Rd.).

“Be part of a food movement,” DRFH board chair Dr. Barry Bruce told West Carleton Online April 1. “It starts in Carp and ends globally. On Tuesday, April 8, we’ll be hosting the first in a series of community potlucks.”

A draft business plan will be presented for a Sustainable Local Food System prototype, centered in Carp.    Local farmers will grow most of the produce which will be stored, sold, or preserved for four-season availability. A unique type of grocery store will provide education, training and only healthy food. Waste will be reused within the local system. The goal is to feed 3,000 in and around Carp. Roughly six million pounds of food would be required, generating about $9 million in revenues. 

“It’s all about food,” Bruce said. “How it’s grown, where it’s grown, how it’s stored or preserved, how it’s distributed and sold and consumed. It’s about change, education and training for everyone, working together for ourselves and also, everybody. This is a true draft – in other words, your input is important.  If the prototype is successful, scaled up, and replicated globally, atmospheric C02 could be drawn down to safe levels within a few years.”

Bruce says Carp could be the testing grounds for a plan that could save the planet from climate change.

“In other words, we’re creating a local sustainable food system centered in Carp,” he said. “This prototype is designed to expand and replicate in the form of multi-million-dollar for-profit businesses supported and coordinated by our Not-For-Profit entity, Deep Roots Food Hub.”

There is no cost to participate in the potluck, make your favourite recipe and bring it along. In order to ensure a space for the potluck, please sign up on Eventbrite.

Following the potluck, the DRFH will hold its annual general meeting.

For more details, go to DeepRootsFoodHub.ca.