The North Memphis Farmers Collective was just a seed of an idea for many years before an assembly of supporters gave it the resources to bloom.  Now the group is expanding their work, taking on more blighted properties and equipping North Memphis residents to grow healthy, local food themselves. 

Image a MidSouth where local farmers make a living feeding their own community and healthy produce is accessible to people of all income levels. That is now a dream with a pathway to reality thanks to the MidSouth Regional Food System Assessment, a big picture study released last month that lays out a 20 year plan to grow the local food economy and food access.