VACAVILLE — Solano County has an abundance of farms, yet much of the foods that residents consume in grocery stores, schools and hospitals come from outside the county and much of it is processed.

Trying to establish an environmentally sustainable and economically viable local food system has been a goal of Sustainable Solano’s Local Food System Alliance, which hosted a pair of listening sessions at Be Love Farm to hold an open dialogue on how to make that goal a reality. [Read the story here]