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Food Security Partnerships
Conveners:
Participants: (many many)
Summary:
- soul to the table: increase access to local food
- setting up CSA hubs and buying coops
- hok-up farmers to farmers markets
- get farmers and local fresh foods into schools
- how to reach the "middle popluation" - not the already converted
- helping "middle grops" take action on their values
- contacting faith groups and denominations... show them how to take action
- facilitate faith groups in direct buying from farmers and to support purchase of food forneed people
- make food banks and pantry sources for best, healthy food
- communities involved in sustaining agriculture - amherst amss "buy local" campaign
- sing on members of campagn and then generate pubicity for their work and rpoducts
- collaborate with existing educational material and groups - i.e. http://www.heifer.org - for the middle ground apple example... here vs. washington state
- in chicago, are there 'local farms' - not many of them
- chicago churches have land for closer urban agriculture... don: thereis and org that helps churches build land agreements with local farming groups
- eco-justice workshops in churches
- recruit farmers through churches for farmer trainng progrms tony and TomSpaulding? http://www.csalearningcenter.org
- tony - connect our rural ag trianing with urban organizations and markets, chuches center for the land of peolpe
- rural church recruitment for farmer traingin
- tom spaulding ag training... susatainable farms need labor
- financial support from urban churches... shared publication about programs... educate urban church goers
- food for urban churches and need urban families
- get local food into the super markets LABELED as "local food"
- counter rural devastations by returnin to small scale farming with local markets
- rural farmers are not close to training resources or local markets
- "tool building" needed
- opinion surveys > support for local ag
- univof connecticutl public opinion research services
- new england churches also intereseted in sprawl and land use - connecticut archdiocese - as points of mobilization with churches
- groups...
- build on current supporters in teh farmers market
- parents and grandparents, baby boomers in retirement
- parliament of the world's religions
- interfaith youth corps
- universities - urban studies, political science, political economy, econ, etc.
- A way of life: choosing a life PBS consortium ...go around to stations in illinois...
- the whole community
- why buy and produce local foods?
- human - annimal connections
- showing a different way of living and making a living
- anchor, audiences, growing cycle... including:
- the market "moments"
- children - their enthusiasm
- all ages - including the elderly
- in raw form - the passion comes through
- excitement is contagious