Sun City Food Sustainability Day (A Proclamation and El Paso-Based Holiday)

There are thousands of people across the country who have been 'going back to their roots' within the last decade, exploring our local resources to
(1) maintain and sustain harmony with our environment,
and to
(2) express gratitude of this land that we call home.

With El Paso being the sister city of Ciudad Juarez - cultural exploration, from past to present, is a healthy motive for an ever-growing and connected community of peoples of all sorts of backgrounds. Many modern stewards of the El Paso-based land practice sustainable methods in their gardening and farming which pay respect to traditions of indigenous tribes who had once cultivated fruitful abundance on the land that we now cohabitate.

This proclamation request reveres the ancestors of many residents in the El Paso area who had lived here before us. The history of our natural surroundings gives back to us in the present day. Sun City's modern-day cultivators and stewards of the land study how the land lives, and how the land lives to feed us, you could say.

As members of the Food Sustainability Committee of El Paso, we hope that our voices are heard as part of a growing movement in the United States and as part of a shared knowing along with other locals in El Paso and its neighboring areas.

The members of this committee enthusiastically live by food sustainability in the best and humblest self-serving ways possible – acknowledging the deeply rooted history of ancestral, soil-first methodologies, and advocating for the farmers, holistic small businesses, and whole-foods enthusiasts of our communities.