Living here in the Four Corners have you ever thought about how much you depend on trucks bringing all the necessities of life verses what we produce here and use here? We depend on it a lot actually. One of the opportunities of Economic Development is to find items we depend on that are shipped into our community. Then explore if there is a business case to produce that item here. Then examine a business plan focused on export of those products. This is a process of self-dependency while creating economic base jobs. Economic development isn’t just attracting large employers it is also creating many small businesses that provide support for other business. As time goes on we become more and more dependent on import for our existence. It is important that in the process of creating a healthy community we examine ways to reverse that trend. We have a “buy local” project going on here in the county. We should also have a “make it local project”. Somewhere out there is a very good business waiting to happen.