"We are hoping to show a strong correlation between healthy eating and chronic disease which, if proven, would be a much, much less expensive solution then medicating everybody who has chronic disease."
Where would you like to see this project go in the future?
In the future I would love to see health insurance companies and hospitals supporting this kind of vegetable prescription program for all patients. Which would also then benefit the local community as well because then the fruit and vegetable purchases are going to the local harvesters.
What makes you motivated to continue expanding your non-profit?
I think it’s mostly that I’m an artist, so inherent in me I love to create things. I think that this process of bringing people together and creating something that continues to build positive change is something that is really, really gratifying to me as a person and connects me to people in a way that I find to be a very positive way to live my life
Children of Agricultural Fair enjoying a potato sack race. Find more images from the Sustainable Cape website!
This creative and mission-driven women will continue to inspire me to lead a healthy living and bring a solution-oriented way of thinking wherever I may be to solve the problems that lay ahead of me. Already I have begun my own contribution to help Francie in her mission to “change the world” by starting up my own non-profit titled Grow-A-Row For Neighbors. It is a community solution for decreasing hunger and increasing health by collecting the extra produce from local harvesters and delivering them to the nearest food pantry in need, thus enabling low income families to have the availability to fresh, local fruits and vegetables.
For more information about Francie and her inspiring lifestyle, check out the Sustainable CAPE website at:
https://www.sustainablecape.org