A short review of the need and opportunity to create a Secure Food System for Tucson. This version uses Powerpoint "Custom Actions", which do not show up if you view it on SlideShare. You can download file and run it with custom actions.

1. Tucson . . .
doesn’t have any food
•There is less than 4 days
of food in Tucson’s stores
& warehouses.

2. Tucson . . .
doesn’t grow any food
•Less than 4% of our food
is grown in Arizona

3. Tucson . . .
doesn’t control our food
•US imports a majority of
our food during part of the
year.
•A bite of food travels over
1000 miles to get to our
tables.

4. Tucson . . .
needs a Secure Food Supply
•Not everything - every time
•But enough - all the time.

5. Tucson . . .
has abundant, renewable rain
•That’s over 85,000 gallons
per person.
•Tucson receives an average
of 85,000,000,000 gallons of
harvestable rain in a year.

6. . . .but we waste it all
Less than 2% of our
rain is recharged.
• roughly 100,000 AF of water runs
down the street until it evaporates.
• over 50,000 AF falls on decorative
landscaping.
Our biggest consumers of rain:

7. Tucson . . .
Food Oasis in the Desert
• Food Security
• Fresh, nutritious, lo
cal food
• Beauty
• Safe & secure
neighborhoods
• Thousands of local jobs
• World leader in Desert-adapted Technologies

8. We can grow . . .
as much food as we chose
Gardens
3rd Dimension
Aquaponics
Edible landscaping
Edible streets
Food forest

9. We can grow . . .
anywhere we want
NeighborsHomes
Whole
NeighborhoodsCommercial areas
Public spaces

10. Our Food Oasis will have . . .
 Hundreds of thousands of home and community gardens, AND
 Thousands of small urban farms, AND
 Millions of rain-watered trees in a metro-wide urban food forest, AND
 Hundreds of thousands of small-scale aquaponics systems or groups of
them, AND
 The complete re-landscaping of Tucson with edible landscaping, AND
 Thousands of acres of grain, AND
 Thousands of acres of dryland food forests
 AND STILL allow us to recharge at least 10 times as much rain as we
currently do.

11. Join the Feeding Tucson
Champions’ Network
Making Community Food Security
(and beautiful neighborhoods)
a reality for Tucson.
Food Oasis in the Desert
<FeedingTucson.org>