This plan is not feasable due to goverment regulations. It is illegal to grow food and sell it directly to the community without jumping through goverment regulations and paying taxes. That drives the price of the food up, so now it has to be sold to high end restaurants willing to pay a premium for locally grown produce.
The only reason food stamps are so prevelant is because the goverment is standing in front of the food in the first place.
One can grow food to feed himself and family. One could also barter--if regulations prohibit him from selling with cash.

@ this country. Billions to Israel and our military. But we have to cut a program designed to serve those living in poverty and suffering from malnutrition bordering on starvation. And let's not ignore the racial component. If there weren't a stigma assigned to food stamps that pushes the myth that mostly blacks live on them, these cuts wouldn't be occurring.

Not that I think we should cut stamps... If we have 1 penny of gov waste, ear marks, or over spending on the military or prisons... then we should be funding food programs 3x more than we are now. a bish w 3 kids should get over 1K. Period. 1 kid at least 550. 
So you have a PhD...