Hello, John 

 

If you looked at the last meal you ate with your household, how many of the ingredients you used could be traced back to a local farmer or processor? How many ingredients have been in your house for more than a few days?

Johnny Sanphillippo suggested this exercise this week in his blog post, Recipes for Disaster. While our grocery stores are still reasonably stocked, the tenuous nature of our supply lines have been exposed in recent days. Sanphillippo shares a few useful tips for building slack into household inventory so that the possibility of missing a grocery trip doesn't seem so daunting.

 

If you can do it using locally produced food, all the better! Strong Towns Founder Chuck Marohn wrote this week about the necessity of localizing our economies. The top-down system we've grown accustomed to is efficient, but socially weak. It is based on an untenable standard of production, and it can only exist as long as we remain dissatisfied.

 

This week, twelve people became sustaining members, joining the Strong Towns revolution to foil these top-down systems and build resilient communities where people are prosperous.

 

A warm welcome to Matt White, Maxfield Sinclair, Steve Deck, Danny Schaible, Scott Huizenga, Ernest Randall Loop, Samantha Bean, Eric Dumbaugh, Nico Faz, Lara Gale, David Heinold, and Jacob Graham. We're excited to have you on board.

 

Stay well,

—Lauren at Strong Towns

 

 

P.S. Some big news is heading your way from the Strong Towns team! Keep an eye on your inbox Monday for our big announcement!