The 50 Mile Box: Food grown within 50 miles for $50

Community Helps Itself

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Imagine a picnic or breakfast, lunch, dinner or a snack... where every bite heals, nourishes, and reconnects you to the land — no big-box junk, no mystery ingredients, just local, clean food grown and prepared by people who care. That’s the promise of Community Helps Itself (CHI) Markets in Chattanooga, the nation’s first National Park City: fresh, vibrant, life-giving food delivered to your door or ready for pick-up across the Valley....

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Gardeners

Community Helps Itself
Bates Reed
Stanley Powell

Guides

David Littlejohn

Budget estimate

$10K - $100K depending on what we will be creating over the next 5, 10 to 50 year visions.

Obstacles

Funding for volunteers, procurement drivers, vehicles, while we have a distribution center at CHI Farms in Sale Creek, the vision of a central distribution hub right in Chattanooga is certainly a hurdle that needs attention as we grow the vision of feeding our 1000's from our own local economy.

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