IN PRINT: Closing the food gap

Jarrett Kerbel, executive director of The Crisis Ministry of Princeton and Trenton, speaks at a forum on food policy in Mercer County.

How hard is it to buy fresh, local produce in Trenton? Harder than it should be, say organizations like the Crisis Ministry and Isles.

A group of Mercer County residents--professors, farmers, college students and parents--gathered at Labyrinth Books last week to open up the discussion on food policy in Mercer County.

”We use the term food democracy,” said Mark Winne, who writes, speaks and consults on food policy councils and subjects ranging from hunger to agriculture. “It’s a concept that we as consumers should have some say in what we’re eating.”

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Everyone knows about Princeton University's one freegan, but the locavore movement has begun to spread into Trenton, an urban center of Mercer County which residents say receives too little of its suburban and rural neighbors' fresh produce.

Check out the article in the Princeton Packet here.

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