One conjures up the picture of rolling hillsides with habitats for wildlife, farmland, horses, nurseries, and wooded areas, all living closely and in harmony with each other.  Large parcels of land with family farms and roadside stands with fresh local foods used to be the landscape in much of San Diego County.  That is fading away with the surge of developments pressing into once rural lands.  The larger parcels of farmland are being developed and that increase in use has contributed to the wide scale gridlock all across the county.  In the Guajome Area we have been witness to this tremendous increase in the last 10 – 15 years.  With the increase in traffic our standard of living has declined, and the great loss of farmlands affects all the citizens of our county.  Land that provides healthy local foods increases everyone’s food security–and that should be of the highest priority in these times of uncertain world events.