Colorado campaign connects hungry families with local farmers
By Scott K. James | Commentary, Scott's Sheet
A Colorado campaign aims to connect local producers with families facing hunger, proving that neighborly common sense can still do useful work.
There is a particular kind of quiet that settles over a kitchen table when the grocery money runs out before the groceries do.
Parents know that quiet.
It is the sound of someone mentally moving numbers around, stretching one dinner into two and wondering whether the kids will notice that the cereal box is mostly optimism and cardboard dust.
A few miles away, a Colorado farmer or rancher may be doing some difficult math of his own. The crop is ready. The cattle have been fed. The work has already been done.
The buyer, however, is never guaranteed.
You would think connecting ...