Well, maybe investing in agriculture won’t make you the second richest man in America (like Bill Gates) but it is an investment that will pay big and recurring dividends for generations. I don’t think enough people in Kitsap County understand the importance of enhancing and preserving our ability to produce and consume local, healthy, nutritious food.
The recent price hikes in food, food safety concerns, food security can all be solved by enhancing local food…or so says Joel Salatin, farmer and owner of the Polyface Farm in Virginia. Mr. Salatin recently visited Kitsap County and I was in attendnence at the nearly 400 person event. I can say it inspired me, but read what he has to say in this Kitsap Sun article:
Tags: joelsalatin, local food in Kitsap County, economic development
About Jim Freeman
Jim is a real estate broker and licensed loan originator in Kitsap County, WA. He is also an angel investor in a software company, a children's toy product development and sales company, a biogas energy company, a CSA member and a pastured poultry operation on an Olympic Peninsula certified organic farm. As a business owner and investor Jim knows the central importance importance of local agriculture and looks to buy local food and invest in local food producers and processors whenever possible.
