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Taking Personal Responsibility - A Start Now Mission Statement

Planet Earth is in trouble. The evidence is everywhere and all but overwhelming. We care desperately for the future of life on earth, but we feel helpless in the face of corporate disregard for anything but profit and governmental disregard of all but corporate interests. The power, we feel, is out of our hands, and environmental disaster is seemingly inevitable. Hopelessness has become our worst enemy. Start Now stands against hopelessness.(cont)

Local Food

Local food is wonderful for its own sake, and local food is a key to reversing global warming. Start Now talks about local food (and why not supermarket food), and Start Now grows food for the community.

Start Now - So Far

Start Now was inspired by an extraordinary series of work going wrong followed by a powerful experience of rescue efforts going right. The wrong was so profound and the right was so spectacular, that the original purpose for the work fell to a distant second in importance, overwhelmed by the importance of the rescue work, and Start Now happened. (cont)

Start Now Gardens on Bloomington Avenue

Start Now raises food, and lots of it, right around the house at 1134 Bloomington Avenue. This is urban agriculture at its most basic and a key to introducing a significant supply of local food in developed areas. See our home gardens.

This website is also your reference for finding local food in the Kitsap area and keeping up with news of the local food movement all over. Local food is happening in a big way across the nation and around the world, and we’re here to be a part of that in every way we can.

Planet Earth … We Broke It …We Fix It … Start Now