OHG’s Megan Penn on community development in local food systems
As a co-founder of Orange Home Grown, which started in 2009, Megan is passionate about providing access to locally grown food, working to improve the local food system through education, and developing opportunities that create “community” in Orange County.
Orange Home Grown Farmers & Artisans Market is the lone farmers’ market in the City of Orange, and despite its success over the past seven years, Penn and her co-founders realized that so much more could and needed to be done to strengthen the local food system in city.
“The farmers’ market was not enough,” she told Grow Local OC.
More community involvement was needed, and this realization led to the natural evolution into Orange Home Grown, which focuses on education, collaboration, camaraderie, advocacy and more.
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