What Sweet Grass Food is doing now

Sweet Grass Food statement of purpose

Create a self-sustaining food system in Big Timber and Sweet Grass County, whereby basic, essential, and nutritious food products are grown, raised, processed, bought, sold, traded, and consumed locally.

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First step: Creating a community garden

A core planning group formed in September 2007. Pictured L to R:
Nell Lindorff, Lawson Drinkard, Janice Ross, Shirley Layne,
Steve Ross, Diana Taylor, Dave Christensen (not pictured: Suzanne Drinkard).

The vision is to create a self-sustaining
food system in the community.

The Big Timber city council leased land
to us for 5 years.

The property is located in Big Timber
on Walnut Street at 6th Avenue.

The community garden is now in its second year. This is the first step to reaching our goal of becoming a self-sustaining community.

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Next steps

We need producers and processors to come together to help make a plan.

This will include:

• Producing our own food
• Processing our own food
• Marketing and distributing our own food
• Establishing a co-op

Your help is greatly appreciated for this county-wide effort.