Follow That Chip: Locally Grown Food is Catching on Even With Big Corporations

New farms are popping up all over.  Nearly 300,000 farms have started since 2002. No, they are not the big farms as in the past, but small community farms.

The farms are meeting a need in the community by providing locally grown food.  Many of these farms are very successful.

Frito-Lay has initiated a new program called Follow That Chip.  The concept is that your chip most likely came from a "local" farm and is a local food.  Frito-Lay offers you the ability to find out what farm your chip comes from.

I took the test.  You put the unique bar-code in from your chip bag.   I then followed my bag of chips from one of several farms in Florida, to the Orlando processing plant.  It was actually fun to see where my chip came from.

A New Way of Farming Is Popping Up All Over the United States

In Camarillo California a new type of farming is starting.

On farm fields instead of plants and fruit, there are very large greenhouses.  The greenhouses are mostly self-sufficient by producing their own power through solar cells, and collecting rain water.

It takes far less land, chemicals, and energy to farm in a greenhouse, yet it produces the same harvest of vegetables or fruit.