MLPG is a guild for producers, growers, localvores and associate organizations that share the vision of a strong local food shed and economy. A strong local food shed is important and the ripple effect bring many benefits including providing jobs, injecting the local economy with capital and supporting small independent growers and producers while they supply wholesome minimally processed clean food to you and your families.

The vision is to provide a spring board for the creativity of individuals in creating our own self sufficient network and structure for locally produced foods. 

WE are the ones we have been waiting for, an excerpt from The Book of Hopi.  These profound words bring hope to a society that is searching for the answer on the outside.  The answer must come from us, the people who live here. The answer must come from within.  Each community will create a network and connect with other communities creating a regional structure for locally grown and produced foods. 

Imagine..............

• an abundant food cottage industry that supplies clean reliable food
• a thriving local economy that empowers the individual and families a wholesome agrarian lifestyle by providing clean food.
• Young adults choosing farming and food production as a vocation that will provide for them and their families.
• our community having multiple clean food sources, hundreds of neighborhood gardens and every household has some kind of garden supplying fresh nutritious produce and herbs.
• soup kitchens, church food pantries and food distribution organizations having plenty of food or better yet not having any patrons to serve because the need no longer exists.
• our community unleashing  creativity to provide solutions to transform the lives of each person living here.

WE have many issues and these issues are not going to be solved by any one person or poohba.  They will be solved by the ideas and creativity of the many people living here, these ideas will then coalesce giving us a greater more meaningful food system with all the ripple effects.

Each of us has our 'thing' we are interested and they differ greatly including the degree.  MLPG proposes a loosely structured venue of the Meetup website to merge, share ideas, resources, network and get the ball rolling.  Then each person takes it to the streets, business, neighborhoods and implements by training, sharing and networking with like minded individuals.

In the following days, weeks and months you will see the resources building up in these pages and people stepping up to the task.  This is an experiment that I truly hope will work but I do not know that for certain.  WE each have a piece of the puzzle lets work to put that puzzle together. 

Local food growers and producers can now unite under one umbrella to exchange resources, utilize and participate in the advantage of a legal structure. Mid and long term goals include but not limited to; 

• A buyer's pool for growing and selling supplies
• Wholesale contacts within the group
• A growing distribution chain with channels
• access for local growers to apply for operating capital via group funding initiatives 
• Access to financial vehicles for retirement
• Access to continuing education in agriculture, marketing and business related topics. 
• Options and alternatives to health care.
• Services exchange for members
• Updates and information about pending legislation that affect agriculture and small business.
• Provides information to navigating the mired web of current legislation
• Access to group work days like the traditional barn raising model.