I ’ve not seen a farm that embodies the “ urban - rural continuum ” quite like well-nigh 250 - year - honest-to-goodness Oxmoor Farm in Louisville , Ky. With 8 Akko of veg plot , hoop houses , and a b and silo , it ’s a shot of all thing rural — that is , if you wrench your back to the railroad car rush down I-64 , which bisect the place . This historical working farm is home to Louisville ’s only farm - free-base pedagogy programme , The Food Literacy Project , and was one stop on Camilla , the Duchess of Cornwall ’s visit with the Prince of Wales to the U.S. last week as they toured environmental and sustainability project around the metropolis .
The Duchess is no stranger to the garden . As part of herofficial imperial duties , she helps Prince Charles promote local food for thought yield and goodly eating and has even been caughtguerrilla horticulture , and her visit helped to highlight the solid food and farming initiatives taking place in the Bluegrass State . While at the farm , she plant rhubarb plant and made homemade pizza with elementary - school kid in the Food Literacy Project ’s Field - to - Fork Afterschool Club and visit with Ivor Chodkowski , Food Literacy Project co - laminitis and the property ’s renter Fannie Merritt Farmer , who , in addition to providing saucy produce for organisation , operatesField Day Family Farm(a vegetable CSA program ) and have afarm - to - table restaurantin business district Louisville .
Since its establishment in 2006 , the Food Literacy Project has introduced more than 25,000 youth and their families to the concept of a sustainable food for thought system , focusing particularly on underserved area of the metropolis at risk for diet - relate diseases .
“ We share Her Royal Highness ’s imaginativeness for sustainability , healthy eating , and vivacious communities , ” sound out executive director Carol Gundersen , who greeted the Duchess upon arrival to the farm . “ We trust that human health and environmental sustainability can co - exist , with children and families driving real and durable change in their communities . ”
These opinion were resound by Prince Charles himself , as he address a gathering at theCathedral of the Assumptionlater that evening . He highlighted how prioritizing preservation can direct not only to healthier hoi polloi and communities , but can have great economic impact , as well . A major part of this is supporting an environment in which sustainably minded , small - scale farms can fly high .
“ Re - localise your food arrangement and encouraging the many small and medium - sized farm that surround your metropolis to moot how in effect to offer locally get food for thought would make a tremendous difference to the long - term sustainability of your economy , especially if real tending was pay to the health of the soil , ” he said .
Prince Charles ’ farm in Gloucestershire has been organically manage since 1986 , and produces Milk River , beef , lamb , mutton , pork , straw , barleycorn , oats , Secale cereale , Indian mustard , and more than 70 varieties of fruit and vegetable . At his dwelling Highgrove , nearly 90 per centum of the energy follow from renewable sources and 60 percent is produced on - site .
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