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Raleigh meeting

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Warren and Tammy facilitating

Describing the food system

The game plan

Who's in the room

Local food and flowers

Raleigh, October 14, 8:30-11:30
90 people in attendance
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at 3313 Wade Ave.

(NOTES minimally condensed; repeated)

EXPANDED MARKETS

Selling

CSAs with sliding scale and various payment schedules
Mega CSA: CSA with value added, cooperative or third party managed (allows streamlining of purchasing)
CSA deliver/pickup at workplaces
Food stamps at farmers’ markets (should be run by Department of Ag and implemented state-wide)
Mobile farmers’ markets at workplaces & corporate sponsored markets
Farmers markets at preschool & school (pick up kids and food)
State markets should have organic/sustainable/growers only section
Latino groceries and local butchers
Producer – worker – consumer food co-ops
Food wagons – selling produce, prepared food via “ice cream truck”
“Local food” discount card in growceries (sic)

Saving

Food salvage programs at farmers markets (to underserved populations)
Gleaning programs that deliver to support services
Percentage of all community garden production goes to community services (good Samaritan law)
Food waste reduction education and programing

Growing

Community gardens (partner with Parks & Rec, Libraries, extension agents)
Training for community gardens (organizational and growing training, plus language and culture to address potential barriers to certain groups)
City supported community gardens (water and electricity)
County and state supported school farms
Urban ag/green houses and in-town farms
Fruit trees planted in cities and harvested
Community composing facilities on city land

Purchasing

Government support and transparency about buying local
Institutional buying – Hospitals (1 million meals a year) to show health benefit
Statewide purchasing of local food in schools with special preference to underserved and low income districts and counties

Support

Community college support for business development for brokers and distributors
Health insurance discounts or rebates for joining CSA

Research

Food assessment of customer spending habits
Research on policy barriers
Study the inverse relationship of health care costs to good food practices
Quantify the market – dollars possible – and foodshed assessment (what needs to be grown regionally verses locally, in terms of ecological foodsheds rather than state and county lines)

Policy

Land use policies for ag in cities
Development Farms
Moratorium on fast food restaurants
Food tax for non-local foods

Imagining

Computer games about growing food
Music and art outreach

STRONG INFRASTRUCTURE

Mechanics and facilities

Local processing facilities and certified kitchens
Area freezer and cooler space to facilitate local and regional distribution
Farmer owned distribution companies
Small scale slaughter facilities
Labeling of local and sustainable growing and processing practices, meaningful and visible

Collective action

“Organic Valley Co-op” style model for local farms, not necessarily certified to allow for changeable practices but real sustainability
Cooperative farm clusters that share apprenticeships around farming, education, restaurant connections, food processing
Creative company ownership options – consumers to buy into distribution and slaughter and processing facilities

Program action

Service learning programs (Americorp) providing youth and adult food system education and engagement: Foodcorp
Waste stream utilization – composting oils and fats, etc
Program for major supermarkets to buy into promoting local foods
Massive ag bailout
Consumer based micro loan investing system system and staff to connect farmers to local

Policy action

Policy reform to make small scale slaughtering feasible, facilitating HACCP programs
Disaster planning which accounts for how to continue access after major disruption in food distribution
Support of entrepreneurial innovation that involves food system

Technology

Online network for farmers to communicate among themselves (form cooperatives, share resources, collaborate, etc)
Update and keep current statewide farmers market data base on Web
Map farm locations on GIS and aid distribution agents

Education

Food training for butchers, chefs, etc
Models and training for fair labor practices

FARMS AND FARMERS

Education and training

Free permaculture workshops for community and farmers (biointensive, low tech, etc)
More extension agents trained and supportive of organics, market gardening, and community gardening
Career training in high schools for farming
Organic mid-sized farm grain production education and support
More sustainable ag education offerings
Business planning support for farmers

Programs

Community Garden dedicated extension agents
Transition programs to link retiring and active/new/young farmers
Land link for landowners willing to provide long-term leases for sus ag farmers
Subsidies and grants for apprentices and new farmers
Support programs for infrastructure start-up costs for new farmers
Transition programs for diversification and organic production
State funded land trust for farms

Policy

Farm zoning to create affordable land costs for farm purchase
Tax incentives for farmers to share land
Address GAP certification requirements/restrictions
Protecting land with best soils
Incentives for farmers to incorporate open space, forest, buffers, etc with their working land

Public relations

Better public relations campaign by NCDA on role of research farms

STRONG AND DIVERSE PARTNERSHIPS (starred here as most in other categories already)

Programs

Engaging kids in food early on – get food system knowledge back into cultural literacy high school students choosing a project to work on with community farmers
Collaborations between churches
Alice Waters type Farm-to-School program
Community Farm Land Trusts
Assist long-established institutions to transform from commondity crop focus to eco-based farms
Farms as cultural festival sites (dance, music)

Networking/alliances

Connect food priorities to state health plan
Engage master-gardener network
Engage minority advocacy groups
Engage environmentalist, energy workers, and climatologists
Engage environmental justice workers
Immigrant rights movement connection (Mung and Latino)

Rethinking

Diversity training for food systems workers to get at root of inequity: structural racism in land legalities, disenfranchisement
Commit to thinking outside the box
Creatively re-imagine definition of farm beyond for farmer and family only-to allow for educational farms, apprentices, living communities, therapeutic efforts, etc.

TACTICS & NEEDS FOR MAKING IT HAPPEN

**Define what is local
Transparency in all efforts
Holistic thinking
Database, categorized, on Web to identify food systems work: farmers markets, schools, NGOs, CBOs, etc.
Web site/documentary with successful stories
GIS mapping of farms and food projects (see San Fran green map)
Collaborative action like this effort – making most of existing work
Massive public campaign about true cost of good food and opportunities to take action – grow own food and buying direct from local farmers
Massive public campaign of farmers as heroes/rock stars
American’s are used to cheap food – massive education effort required
American’s used to convenience – local food must be easy to identify and get
Create new statewide food policy council
Coordination for follow through and geographical and food sector network defined
Involvement of policy makers
Marketing outlets and publicity use
All communities, low resource to gated, need to have ability to grow own food
Particularize efforts to each community

Current Efforts

EXPAND MARKET ACCESS & OPPORTUNITIES

Programs that connect people to local foods

State-wide policy – Institutional buying, school districts

School programs

Expanding Farmer’s Markets

Wheeler Road Main Farmer’s Market and 2 page list of local farmers and pick your own vegetables and produce by Wake County Cooperative Extension

One pager produce by WC HS listing local good banks and churches who provide food

Farmer’s Markets are expanding to outlying areas

Community farms expanding and making it easier for people to buy locally

CSA’s

More awareness and knowledge of how to buy locally

Community Gardens/Faith community

4. b. Increased collaboration with universities – eat smart more

Increased education about healthy lifestyles to our partner agencies

2 c. new expansion to children’s museum in Greensboro (News & Record 9/11/08)

2 a. New Burlington Farmer’s Market

New coop community to Burlington

b. Chefs/Restaurants using local foods dish contest (Matt Tunnel)

c. SEEDS (Durham)

d. AASC Food Bank Pantry)

Increase donations from farmers to clients

Society of St. Andrews to food partners

2. a. These projects are almost unknown to low wealth communities

Some markets (roadside) are located outside of Farmer’s Market…need more

Chatham Marketplace

Company Shops Market

Weaver Street Market

CSA’s and Farmer’s Market’s in Orange and Chatham Counties

2 d. increased need for emergency food-donations of food have changed

Because of manufacturing expertise

Local farmer donations are down because of drought related grown and farmers

Choosing to grow more profitable crops

2 c. Increased interest in growing own foods-food recalls

2 Expanded markets and opportunities

Chatham Market Place Coop

Farmer’s Markets

CSA Programs

CORA food bank for people in need of food on emergency basis

Community Garden – Fairground Association

Last African American owned fair- starting up community garden

2 Urban Farm in Pittsboro

Growing healthy communities, Margie Ellison, Chatham County

SEEDS, Durham

Triangle Food Commons

Affordable local food working group

Interfaith Council Food Bank

Community Garden, Cedar Grove

Leaf Light, 21 Century Farmer’s Market program

BALLED

Detailed GIS mapping of food-producing farms and food distribution infrastructure to prioritize farms for preservation, county by county

2. CSA (community supported agg.)

Direct home delivery

More supermarkets expanding “local food” sections

Markets held at most accessible location?

Local food incorporated into institutional providers, i.e. schools, hospitals, prisons

Surplus foods donated before expiration

NCSU

Community Garden

Steering Committee

Farmer to Farmer Mentorship Program

NC Natural Port Producers Project

Discover Agriculture Youth Program at AIT Farm

Minority Young Farmer’s Educational Program

Farm Tours

UU Chapel Hill, month on local food /speaker

Guilford County School Garden Project

AET Small Farm Week and Field Days

Farmer’s Markets

State

Small Roadside stands

“Local Only” Farmer’s Markets (not allowing wholesale or non-local products)

NCDACS Farmer’s Markets

Small scale tailgate markets at work sites

●21st Century Farmers Market Program

EBT (food stamp access) at Farmer’s Markets

Robert Andrew Smith

Increasing Farmer’s Markets

EBT access

Expanding to new neighborhoods (low income)

Diverse options

Small roadside stands

Tailgate markets

Focusing on “local food” at Farmer’s Markets

:”local only” Farmer’s Markets

“certified local” at Farmer’s Markets

Several new Farmer’s Markets in Triangle increasing interest in CSA

New co-ops committed to buying local

Rapid increase in demand for local foods

Duke University is trying to utilize local food in their dining facilities particularly “The Refectory” in the Divinity School.

Moore Square Farm Market – downtown Raleigh

Caroling Farm Stewardship – website search for local farms and CSA

Durham SEEDS – community gardens

Interfaith Food Shuttle-food recovery

Society of St. Andrews – gleaning, food recovery

Lots of Farmer’s Markets

Increasing of CSA’s (but not sliding scale)

Increase number of food co-ops (affordability is issue)

Interest increase in community gardens, some starting (Chatham still rural-lots of gardens still there)

Only know of one gleaning group

Local co-ops and CSA’s seem likely ideal constituencies already engaged

ECO-Eastern Caroling Organics-organization that distributes local grown organic food

Wholesale to restaurant or anyone who needs large quantities

Chatham Market Place – Food Co-Op

Farmer’s Market

Direct Work-Farms to Restaurants

Rural County Farmer’s Markets Closing (both private and government operated)

ECO Organics “Direct” is not always best

Successful distribution

Selling beef straight from the farm (direct marketing)

Mobile Markets (fresh local, food truck)

-chefs

-DJ’s

-Fun

2 Durham Food Co-Op

Farmer’s Market

Piedmont Restaurant

Seeds Community Garden

Durham Food Shelter

Whole Foods (Broad Street)

UNC CH Farmer’s Market/other markets

ECO

Foster Caviness-some local produce

Lee Farms CSA – 1st run next summer for UNC HC employees

Food Shuttle

SEEDS

Churches-Ann Toth, Fuquay Varina

Society of St. Andrews

Saxapahaw Farmer’s Market-innovative time and combined with music

Weaver Street Grocery – cooperative and community grocery store provides some wealth to communities, institutions that help people of all wealth

Ashe Outreach Ministry –variety of programs including Farmer’s Market and fish frys

Local Farmer’s Markets in Carrboro, Durham, CH, Raleigh

SEEDS Community Gardens

Gleaning projects

Farm worker community garden and market in Newton Grove

Triangle restaurants advertising local food use

CSA’s currently operating: 2 in Granville County, 1 in Person County, 1 in Orange County

Grants for farmland preservation NCDA & CS – Dewitt Hardee

Minority farmer outreach – NCOA-Archie Heirt

WHC economic development – Smithson Mills

value added processing facility
CASs
Community Gardens
Eastern Carolina Organics
Web-based: linking farmers to high end restaurants (Charlotte, NC)
NC Choice
Voucher programs
SEEDS (Durham), urban gardens
Anathoth Community Gardens
Interfaith Food Shuttle
Food banks
Catholic Parrish Outreach
Carrboro/CH residents council
Backpack buddies (Durham)
DOD Programs
Weaver Street (sometimes Whole Foods)
Eatlocal.com
Triangle Slow Food Conviv.
ASAP

UNC Flo Food (Fair Local Organic)

Edible Classroom at Greensboro Children’s Museum, Betsy Grant

Local restaurants –local markets

College campus gardens (Meredith, CCCC, Montessori, Greensboro, Warren, Wilson)

●Institutional use of local goods-UNC, Warren, Wilson, Meals on Wheels

New Farmer’s Market at North Hills

Buying clubs of friends for farm products

Inside the beltline, encouraging chicken production

Greensboro-Montessori Children’s Garden

Meals on Wheels

Seasonal vegetables Market on Six Forks near Falls Lake

CSA’s

Carrboro Community Garden

BALLE in Asheville, hopefully soon in triangle area

Local land trust organizations-River Link (French brand), Tar River Conservancy

2.d Food Salvage

Donations to food banks from grocery stores (ex: Trader Joe’s)

Gleaning

Community Gardens

SEEDS – Durham

Expand Market

-Orange County-local Farmer’s Market

-Chapel Hill and Carrboro Farmer’s Market includes Southern Village

-Chatham County, Farrington Village

-UNC Hospitals, Farmer’s Markets

Get Hospital food service involved

Interfaith food shuttle

#2 Campus (college) gardens (specifically Meredith, CCCC) are there others in NC?

College dining and local food

-Warren, Wilson

-UNC-CH

CSA’s

-Coon Rock

-Bean sol Gardens

Double T Farms

Triangle Meat Buying clubs

Farmer’s Markets

NC State Market-Raleigh
Moore’s Square
North Hills
Durham Market
Carrboro
Cary Market

Larry Petrorick & Food Shuttle and others interested in organizing immigrant farming/community gardening (have ideas about land access)

2.a Farmer’s Market in downtown Raleigh, local and other organic

Triangle Food Commons

Land Loss Prevention Project

SAF

2.d Food Salvage

UNC food clubs donate leftover food to local food banks

2 Community garden initiated in Wilmington-difficult to motivate public/volunteers to

Maintain

2 d. Population growth, greater need in community for more food, increase in number of

Clients-trend towards perishable products (produce)

Formation of product/cooking and preparing

Diversifying crop production

Developing markets for those crops

Greenhouse products

Need: Healthy Corner Stores Initiatives, especially in northeast central Durham

Durham Farmer’s Market

Durham Central Market (non-food co-op)

Durham Food Co-Op (Old Co-Op)

Is restructing and could use support-would be a good candidate for a mobile direct to

home market/business

Bountiful Backyards

Has now helped 56 families plant backyard forest and annual gardens-could start

backyard CSA

SEEDS

Support/technical advice to folks starting community gardens

One Durham Everybody Eats

Earl and Wanda Boone are developing a community kitchen-a pat what you can model

with a community garden

Food For Life Supreme

Educating about health cultural appropriate food preparation

2 a, Wayne County needs a major Farmer’s Market and a CSA. The political structure

Buy into the concept

Direct Markets – Orange County

1, Several Farmer’s Markets including the new S. Estes Market which is sponsored by

Southern Seasons

Markets: So. Estes – Sat.

Southern Village – Thurs

Carrboro – Wed, Sat

Orange County – Sat

2. Many Orange County farmers sell to local restaurants and stores

a. Lantera

b. Weaver Street Market

Local restaurants with local/organic emphasis

-irregulars

-Selly and Ritz

-Rosie’s Plate

Etc

#2 Heavy use of local farmers and Farmer’s Markets by restaurants

Restaurants: using local food for niche foods

Durham Rescue Mission

Has a number of lots their residents garden

Would be good to get TROSA residents involved in gardening/urban farming

Durham Food Bank

Located next to SEEDS, could be more collaboration potentially

Urban Ministries

Downtown Durham Food Pantry/Soup Kitchen

Local Restaurants advertising local food

2. Mini mobile markets NCDA-Freda Butner

New CSA delivery club – HSB Coffee Shop

Farm 2 School – ASAP & NCDA

Come to the Table

Food Shuttle – Jill Bullard

21st Century Farmer’s Markets – Robert Smith

The Gardeners Kitchen

Teaching people to raise and preserve their own organic food and barter/share what they

grow

Retail/Food Service/Institutional

-Amy’s Organics coming to NC?

-Hain Celestial coming to NC?

Direct Market Access

Direct Markets – 5 state Regional Farmer’s Markets

NC Farm Fresh Program

“Pick Your Own” Roadside Farm Markets

Retail/Food Service Programs at NCDA & CS-Flavors of Carolina-Good News

In NC

Got to be NC campaign

d. Emergency Food Service

-Canned Food Day at a State Fair

-Food Ventures at State Farmer’s Market

-Sweet Potato at State Farmer’s Market

Include all segments of society

Inner city as well as urban

CSA

Farmer’s Markets

SEEDS

-Lots of CSA’s (e.g. Duke)

-Farm to School Program (Duke)

-Great Food Co-Ops (Weaver, Chatham)

New Farmer’s Market Southern Pines

New Consumer Food Corp-Fayetteville

a. Farmer’s Markets

b. Farm to School (Greenville Restaurants, Starlight Local

c. Master Gardners/Neighborhood Community Gardens

d. NC Food Banks – Food Gleaning Program

Greenville Hanelen Shelter

Soup Kitchen

Church Food Partners

GROW MORE FARMS AND FARMERS

CFSA and incubator farms

Land Loss Prevention Project (Sari Horne)

Research going into transitioning farmers to organic/sustainable practices

Resource: Permaculture Design at NCSU

Key to designing small scale environmentally regenerative farm (contact: Will Hooker)

Student Action with Farm Workers

FLOC

Unions

FOOD Commons

Farm Incubator Program /Orange County Ag Ext

Master Gardner NC Coop Ext

Century Farms

NC Farm Worker Health Program (NC Dept Public Health)

Episcopal Farm Worker Ministry

Advocacy Groups

Strong Extension Programs working with small farms and local systems, new statewide extension objective on local food systems so counties now working with total staff on this.

Community College Program

New farmland preservation efforts in Chatham

Strong increase in interest in local farms

Raised level of awareness of local foods in government

Triangle Land Conservancy

Small Farms Initiative (land lease program, Tandy Jones, etc)

Farmland Preservation (conservation easements)

Farmland Preservation Planning-Chatham, Johnston, Durham

Central Carolina Community College (Pittsboro)

Training new farmers

Breeze Farm-Orange County – farm incubator?

NC Agriculture Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund

Funding for farmland preservation

Money for limited resource farms

USDA

NC Farm Worker Ministry

Biopesticides

Greenhouse

Seed Saving

Compost Making

Farmer’s Market

Co-Op’s Food

Worm Culture

Aqua Culture

Victory Gardens

Health Hospitals

Tribal-Eco-Toveisou

Farming Techniques

Historic

Century Farms

Food Preservation (canning)

High Tunnel

Winter Growing

Seed Exchange

Organic Education

Chicken Production

TLC, AFT, NCFTN, Piedmont LC

Farms in development-Harvest

Commission Land/Working Land, Abundance Incubators

More Farmers

CCCC

Incubators

Spence’s Farm

Workshops at Chatham Extension

Local Farmers encouraging new farmers

Support for farm laborers

RAFI

Toxic Free NC

Small Chatham Conservation Partnership

Major landscape conservation partnerships are active: Sand hill, Vivharris, Albemarle-Pamlico, Cape Fear, Arch, Onslow Bight, all need to consider interface with this issue (currently are not)

Farm Bill Activism

RAFT Swamp Farm-Intervale Motel

Farm and Farmer Incubator

New farmer programs targeting retirees and people a second career

Homesteading programs that make farm land affordable to young farmers

Farmer Incubator-Orange Co.

Marketing Assistance – Orange Co.

Orange Co. Farm Preservation Program

Thriving Farmer’s Market

Great Grassroots and Orgs, CFSA

Internships (Piedmont Bio Farm)

Support for farmers

Breeze Family Farm – Orange Co.

Incubator Farm Program

New Farmers

Offer training and 1 acre of land for production

Several participants now have stands at Orange County Farmer’s Markets

Refining the design for a community gathering place

Mega CSA

Apprenticeship housing and programs

●Farm education for young children (5-17 education)

Community Ritual space

Recreational space

Producing alternative energy

Community Educational Farm

Spencer’s Farm

Pick and mtn Eco dist.

The county has available land that can make for many new farmers and farms. The education of the local politicians will enhance this process. Sustainable food resources for all Wayne County is needed.

Increasing number of Hispanic /Latino farm workers becoming available and interested in becoming farmers on a full time basis.

CCCC

Perm culture Class NCSU

Carolina Farm Stew/Networking Education

NCDA Farmland Preservation Program

Regional Agronomists Outreach – NCDA

RAFI – Chatham County

Rural Advancement Foundation Int.

Troxler’s initiative to give grants preserving current farms

Land In Common – David Harper is working to find ways to keep quality farmland accessible to local farmers

Triangle Food Commons is supporting efforts to preserve existing/operating farms by helping the community to take ownership

Land Loss Prevention Project is preserving African-American Farm Land

SAF/CDS is supporting immigrant workers by making their stories part of public consciousness

Land In Common is seeking urban land in Durham for food production

As tobacco becomes a crop for larger farmers, there is a need for more diverse case crops such as vegetables. This means marketing locally and then growing the crops.

Piedmont BioFarm/Biofuels Co Op is generating farmers

Need more spaces for them to farm: soil/water/market/fence/equipment/finance

Growing Farmers – International Models for NC

Training in France

Biodynamic: Organic

Vineyards

Community Farmland Trust:

Non-profit ownership of land

Farmer’s own structures

Affordable, long-term land lease

Community Educational Farms

Pickard’s Mountain, Spence’s Farm, Piedmont Biofarms, Breeze Farm

CFSA

Land Conservation Groups

Growing small farms- Chatham County

CCCC – Central Carolina Community College-sustain agricultural certificate

Breeze Farm (Cedar Grove, NC)

FLOCK (Wayne Co., Carrboro) – Farm Labor Group

Wayne County Food Initiative

NC State had teaching farm, Goldsboro, NC

Farmer’s Markets (132 in NC)

:Land Trusts

Agricultural Review

NCDA & CS

Classifieds

FLOC

Chapel Hill/Carrboro NC

Tar River Land Conservancy established in Louisburg, NC

Farm Incubators

Local Extension Agents

CEFS

Triangle Land Conservancy Farm

Incubator Farms – Breezeway Farms

FLOC – Mt. Olive

Triangle Food Common

RAFI: support for contract poultry grower’s rights

Seed diversity

Multiple legal, labor and grassroots groups helping farm workers understand their rights

Farm worker community garden and flea market in Newton Grove

Wake County soil and water

Triangle Land conservancy

Farmland Preservation

New model of putting arms in subdivisions, “development supported

Agriculture “Harvest in Pittsboro – 200 acres with 10 acres organic farm in center

Orange County Incubator

Young Farmer Program (Chatham County)

Pittsboro Community College-Internship

More Farms and Farmers

a. Support for farmers, minority program at NCD/AFCS (Archie Hart & Co.)

b. Farm Land Restoration, grant programs at NCDADCS (Dewitt Hardee & Co.)

c. Support for farm laborers, legal affairs at NCDADCS (David McLeod & Co.)

Support for farmers and incubator farms

Farm Preservation

Refugee Agricultural Partnership Programs

Foothills

Sustainable agriculture programs at community CCCC in Pittsboro, Chatham County, training new farmers

Farmer’s Markets in Chatham and surrounding counties

Apprenticeships (CEFS, Piedmont Bio-fuels, etc)

Chatham County

Expanded farming-Piedmont Biofarm

Edible Earthscapes – new farm

Harvest – developer supported agriculture community

Urban Farm/Chatham Marketplace

Chatham County Cooperative Extension (Debbie Roos)

Piedmont Biofarm

CFSA

ALBC RAFI

NCSU

Breeze Farm

Incubator Project

STRONG AND DIVERSE PARTNERSHIPS

● Students being educated/participating in local food systems

Boys and Girls club

Garden Club

Community Garden

Meredith College

Faith Communities –recent commitments to sustainable practices, including food choices

Pullen Baptist

Methodist Church in Five Points

Raleigh Friends Meeting

Anatoth Gardens

4.b. continue Farmer’s Market Program with WIC

WIC Food Program

Change with addition to F/V on vouchers

SEEDS in Durham

4.a. NC Center for Social Environmental Justice

There’s a bubbling up of various and diverse groups that need to be identified and brought together

Social justice

REACH (based in Triangle) working on informing/organizing committee in Eastern Carolina (Naema Muhammed)

Concerned Citizens of Tillery and the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (Gary Grant)

Urban Farm next to Chatham Market Place – partnership, also an underserved community

Speaking to various community groups (class trips) to markets, gardens, clubs, newcomers organizations, etc; churches)

Black Brown Green Alliance

(Blogalliance.com?)

Interfaith Power and Light

Piedmont Interfaith Network of Gardens

Orange County Organizing Committee

HK on J

Growing a Just Green Economy

Contact: Fionella Orgnagueva

Migrant Farm Worker Rights and Health in NC

(will locate contact info: Anna Purdy 919-593-5192

1. Eduento/Publicized

2. More farms and farmers, get youths involved earlier, elementary schools, projects, Ag

Education in schools

3. Strong Infrastructure/Support. Convince leaders of this need

4. Strong and diverse partnership, eduante/network

Carolina Garden Co-Op

Carrboro community Garden

Carrboro Farmer’s Market

FLO Food and UNC Chapel Hill

Farmhand Alliance at Duke

ELOM Community Garden

ECO Organic (Pittsboro)

NC Choices (Jennifer Curtis, NC State)

CSA (Program at UNC & SWEAFT)

NC Zen Center

Durham Arts Collective

Hqw RNER Learning Celebration

Hqw RNER Assembly

NC Region Far Tour

Nutrition – Food Shuttle’s Operation Frontline

Involving Youth in growing fruits/vegetable to market locally

NC Prevention Partners

UNC School of Public Health

Divert/Wholesome Food

Leftovers from Farmer’s Market, Store and farms to hungry people

NC Council of Churches, National Farm worker Ministry involvement in farm worker advocacy

4-H?

UNC Student group on local/organic food on campus

Local government support for Farmer’s Markets

FLO Food-Fair local and organic food-student group, UNC, Chapel Hill

ARA Food Collaboration – includes 3 regions plus UNC Chapel Hill (cira-unc.org)

Center for Integrating Research and Action

Latino and others involved in food growing-Community Gardens

Local/County/Regional Initiatives

-county efforts to develop farm land preservation plans

DHHS-numerous projects – Diane Beth

UNC-Gillings Project-Alice Ammerman

UNC-Sustainability Project – Student led

Anototh Community Garden – Fred & David

ADA-Environmental Working Group-Cornell-Angie Togow

NC Fruits and Vegetables Nutrition Coalition – Diane Beth

Localharvest.com – recipes for local foods

Advocates for Health in Action (Wake County Collaborative)

SEEDS

Real Food Challenge

Farm to School Program

Slow Food Movement

School Related Sustainable Ag

Wayne County Food Initiative (Student Led)

School Gardens

UNC-HPDP Gillings Grant

PING (Interfaith Piedmont networking garden)

5 a day/DOD

Healthy Snack Program

NC Envir Justice Network Culturally Relevant…..our culture is not sustainable

Let’s not be culturally relevant-let’s change the culture

Alice Waters – School Gardens

Identify vacant land for community gardens

Urban Farms

Community gardens being started

●SEEDS

Anitoth

Orange County Breeze Farm

Incubator farm training new farmers

SEEDS

UNC Public Health – Alice Ammerman

CIRA (UNC)O

RAFI (Come to the Table)

SAF

New Business

The age group of unemployed Wayne County residents is high among those 18-30. The

New business of food production will enhance the local economy.

Wayne County is pushing to develop several community gardens within the city. Three are presently available with two producing produce on a large scale and one is located at the public library. The next project will involve more communities very soon.

a. Community Gardens in Carrboro

Recruit youth participants

b. UNC food clubs are working with the university to purchase more locally produced

Food.

c. UNC food clubs are also involved in social justice issues of food production such as

fair wages, safe working conditions, sustainable food production processes

Wayne County

Local Food Initiative

Urban Greenhouse/rooftop greenhouse

Culturally appropriate food production

Interfaith Community Gardens

Reclamation of abandoned spaces in cities for growing food within the community

b. Nutrition and Public Health

NC Division of Public Health

Organic Farm in Chatham County that will provide transitional program for women

Coming out of rehab

e. Social Justice Initiatives

Orange County organizing community

Interfaith Power and Light

World Church Chapel Hill-Economic and Environmental Justice

Educational programs at college level in foods and nutrition that train/inform

Future professionals

Educational institutions and research on sustainable, organics and nutrition and health

Get state and local dietetic association involved.

Increased funding from state and federal agencies

Increased awareness

More outreach to various partners, i.e. Public Health

Need to address inequities and disparities in underserved communities

Waynefoods.org

b. start the conversation and bring people to the table who have an interest in working

in the area and searching for funds to support it

c. communities would be a key role and bring educators on the importance

Youth and SEEDS in Durham

Concerned Citizens of Tillery-

NC Division of Public Health

Statewide Health Promotion Program

Provides funding to local health departments to support policy and change at the community level

Local partners work on things like community gardens, food deserts, Farmer’s Markets.

Education Partnership: Three Sisters Garden at Meredith College, connected to graduate nutrition program. Contact: Bill Landis

Food Commons: collaborative project with many partners working on local currency alternative, Food Access, Farm Incubation, etc Coordinator: Tammi Schwerin

School of Nutrition UNC-CH-year long nutrition student internships

Come To The Table Contact: Claire Hermann at RAFI

Agricultural Justice Project, RAFI Collaboration, Contact: JJ Richardson

Project Lifeline: program of Share Our Strength (SOS), cooking and nutrition classes to underserved, implemented by Interfaith Food Shuttle in Raleigh

No Sustainable Food System Coalition, non-profit partners through policy and advocacy

NC Fruits and Veggies Nuts Coalition, alliance dedicated to access and consumption of fruits and vegetables

Public Health-Food borne Disease

Ep: Dept of Ag

State Lab

Food safety and security

SEEDS, Lucy Harris (lharris@seedsnc.org)

Empowering youth and families through gardening location inner city Durham

Partnership Potential: El Pueblo, other minority advocacy groups

Creative partnerships to empower minority agency in the food system

Hospitals sponsoring Farmer’s Markets

State Obesity Plan: identifies goals, objectives and strategies to help reduce overweight obesity and other chronic diseases including healthy food access (increase fruits and vegetables)

NC State Eat Smart Initiative

Eat Smart, Move More NC, movement to help North Carolina residents eat smart and move more through multi level approaches to assist North Carolina residents wherever they live, learn, earn, play and pray.

Support: Triangle Slow Food

Community Gardens:

1. State Community Gardening Coalition

Engaging state, local partners to create action plan to support community gardens

In NC (Lucy Bradley, NCSU)

2. Piedmont Interfaith Network of Gardens (PING)

Training and support for faith based gardens, Clair Herman, RAFI

The Table – local Carrboro group interested in getting healthy to low income families-adding garden (tablenc.org)

Interfaith Shelter – Chapel Hill: picks up fresh food from grocery, restaurants for centers.

Collaboration between Wake County Co-Op Extension, AHA, Wake Med and others to pull together resources for community gardening in Wake County. Contact: Carol Mitchell and Morris Dunn at Cooperative Extension **Advocates for Health in Action

Boys and Girls Clubs of Wake County

3 clubs in Raleigh have had gardens

How to tap into that organization to work in low income communities

Piedmont Interfaith Network of Gardens

CIRS(?) Committee on/for Immigrant and Refugee Services. Can’t remember if they are interested in refugee farming. I can get contact info: Ginger Dealon

Interfaith Food Shuttle

-contact: Katherine Andrew

Community Gardens and Cooking Classes

4.a. Cook for Good – shopping, cooking and eating plan with focus on affordability,

Nutrition and taste using local and organic food where possible, book website

Classes, lobbying

b. food bank and nutritional cooking classes near State Farmer’s Market

●Eat Smart Move More, NC: Statewide movement to create multi-level change to help north Carolinians eat smart and move, move wherever they live, learn, earn, play and pray. Part of this includes the implementation of the State Obesity Plan which includes goals, objectives and strategies to help reduce overweight and obesity and other chronic diseases including healthy food access. Many programs are working on this by increasing community gardens, farmers markets and community design. Contact: Diane Bern

Youth (we must get FFA/AGE involved)

Faith Communities=Agathtoth Garden

Gleaners from Southern Village Methodist

Local Initiatives – Triangle Food Commons

Major Landscape scale conservation partnerships

Active: Sandhills

Uwharries

Albemarle-Pamlico

Onslow Bight

Cape Fear Arch

Farm Bill advocacy among EVNIRO community is expanding slowly

Increasing interest – County Health Department

New local funds initiative in Chatham Extension

Lots of NGOs and GOs now working in local foods – opportunities for new partnerships

Ft. Bragg BRAC/Ag Extension – Sustainable Ag Agent

Market Access (Iowa)

II. Buy Fresh, Buy Local Campaigns that expand outlets for local goods

-chapters formed by producers, vendors and public agencies

Strong infrastructure and support

a. distribution and logistics – Food Buying Clubs

b. new businesses

CFSA Farm to URS

CFCFS – many nonprofits

Durham Inner City Gardeners

University AG programs

Chemistry/Synergy: NC is a “hotspot” nationally

#2-Soup Kitchen – Carrboro Program

-Community Dinner – Carrboro

-Local Food Movie – Jane McQuaid

#2-Farmer’s Markets – Orange County

-Numerous CSA Farms – Orange County

-Orange County Farms Website

-UNC Student Group – FLO Foods

- Statewide Community Gardening Place

(Keith Baldwin)

-Anathoth Community Garden, Orange County, Partnership for Children and

Carrboro Gardens

Target efforts to support key bottlenecks in processing and distribution such as custom meal processing for small producers

IV. Working to set up relations between nursing homes and farmers. Seniors still appreciate whole food and regional cooking.

#4-4H Program – Orange County

-FFA Program – Orange County

-UNC Integrative Medicine Program

-Dr. Susan -RealFood Conf.

-Camp Chestnut Ride

Brainstorming- NC not much since I just moved here:

#3-No Choices

#4-Service Learning Courses – NCSU?

Brainstorming – Madison, WI

#2-Coalition of CSAs – helps with marketing/promotional activities, provides “scholarships” to consumers

Fundraisers….Piepalooza, Empty Bowls, etc

San Francisco Bay Area: More restaurants using and advertising use of local food chefs and collaborative

NW Washington: Direct Home Delivery Grocer (meta CSA) for local organic produce

Wilson Food House in Hillsborough

Proposed regional food processing Center (Noah Ramells)

ECO (Eastern Carolina Organics

Developing a food co-op in Burlington based on Chatham Market Place model and other co-op successes

Siler City Meat Processing Plant for local meat growers-can’t remember name

3.a Harvest Eating.com

NC Farmer & Chef Keith Snow cooking show on PBS beginning April 2009

Infrastructure and Support

Seed saving with Doug Jones
CCCC-Robin’s Sustainable Agriculture Program
Abundance Workshops-mushrooms, seed saving, sweet potatoes, compost

Budget Cuts effecting support from Cooperative Extension (NCSU & NCATSU)

Detailed GIS mapping of food distribution/processing infrastructure

Schools – how to get fresh vegetables for school lunches?

NC Crop Improvement

-organic audit

-framework for Farm Assistance Education

3.a Marketing Division and Food Distribution Division

b. New Businesses

Agricultural Development Group Ron Fish)

Agritourism Office (Martha Glass)

Blue Ridge Food Ventures

Mt. Olive College – Grass Federal Beef Study

Building NC Grass Federal Beef Association

3. NEER – Rocky Mount, May Bodie

NCDA & CS Food Distribution Division

State Farmer’s Markets/Wholesale/Retail

Strong Infrastructure and Support

-NC Choices

-Eastern Carolina Organics (ELO)

Second Harvest

-Major Food buyer/billion

-Food for Poor

-Opportunity for Local

3. Processing facility in Orange County

(Ag extension)

FLO FOOD (UNC) Sustainable Food Week Nov. 10-13

Student Action with farm workers (Duke)

Farmhand (Duke)

→Robertson Seminar Programs

Real Food, Real Medicine

Gillery School of Global Public Health at UNC

Real Food Challenge

Sustainable agriculture incubators

Breezeway Farms (NC State)

Maverick Farms (Boone-ish)

Student Action with Farm workers (Duke)

Atranza (UNC)

Large institutions interested in and supporting ag (i.e. NC State buying local dairy and some meat)

One new roadside market established in Person County owned by a local farmer in 2008.

3. ECO

ECO in Pittsboro (distribution)

Biodiesel Fuels – Pittsboro

New Weaver Street Market in Hillsborough

More local farm assistance from state and federal – less to large AG business

3. 9th Street Bakery

Working on housing for apprenticeship

Timber frame design

Provide roof and floor – walls

Can be filled in with locally available materials

Getting markets started

Interfaith Food Shuttle

ECO at Piedmont Biofuels

Carolina Biofuels (Durham)

-could be a source for distribution/transportation service

Good work

-Supports entrepreneurial efforts – soon for youth also

Developing markets requires infrastructure

Canola – locally grown models being developed to enter competitive market

Need Food Policy Councils

-Triangle Food Commons/CIRA

-could provide support on these efforts

Working on systems for managing human waste. Bio-gas (methane) generation, composting the by products to be used in agriculture. Applicable in a centralized system separating gray water and urine to be used in agric application. Creating an affordable approved design for compost toilet.

Farm Incubators – don’t know name of organizations

NC Farm Transition Network

Cedar Grove United Methodist Church in Cedar Grove, NC has some sort of vegetable gardening ministry

Camp Chestnut Ridge in Efland, NC has some sort of farm fostering initiative.

STRONG INFRASTRUCTURE & SUPPORT

Development 5 a

25¢/day on local and sustainable

$790 million in local circulation

Cost of food down

Cost of health care up

Wilson Food House in Hillsborough

Proposed regional food processing Center (Noah Rannells)

ECO (Eastern Carolina Organics)

Developing a food co-op in Burlington based on Chatham Market Place model and other co-op successes

Siler City Meat Processing Plant for local meat growers-can’t remember name

3.a Harvest Eating.com

NC Farmer & Chef Keith Snow cooking show on PBS beginning April 2009

Infrastructure and Support

Seed saving with Doug Jones
CCCC-Robin’s Sustainable Agriculture Program
Abundance Workshops-mushrooms, seed saving, sweet potatoes, compost

Budget Cuts effecting support from Cooperative Extension (NCSU & NCATSU)

Detailed GIS mapping of food distribution/processing infrastructure

Schools – how to get fresh vegetables for school lunches?

NC Crop Improvement

-organic audit

-framework for Farm Assistance Education

3.a Marketing Division and Food Distribution Division

b. New Businesses

Agricultural Development Group Ron Fish)

Agritourism Office (Martha Glass)

Blue Ridge Food Ventures

Mt. Olive College – Grass Federal Beef Study

Building NC Grass Federal Beef Association

3. NEER – Rocky Mount, May Bodie

NCDA & CS Food Distribution Division

State Farmer’s Markets/Wholesale/Retail

Strong Infrastructure and Support

-NC Choices

-Eastern Carolina Organics (ELO)

Second Harvest

-Major Food buyer/billion

-Food for Poor

-Opportunity for Local

3. Processing facility in Orange County

(Ag extension)

FLO FOOD (UNC) Sustainable Food Week Nov. 10-13

Student Action with farm workers (Duke)

Farmhand (Duke)

→Robertson Seminar Programs

Real Food, Real Medicine

Gillery School of Global Public Health at UNC

Real Food Challenge

Sustainable agriculture incubators

Breezeway Farms (NC State)

Maverick Farms (Boone-ish)

Student Action with Farm workers (Duke)

Atranza (UNC)

Large institutions interested in and supporting ag (i.e. NC State buying local dairy and some meat)

One new roadside market established in Person County owned by a local farmer in 2008.

3. ECO

ECO in Pittsboro (distribution)

Biodiesel Fuels – Pittsboro

New Weaver Street Market in Hillsborough

More local farm assistance from state and federal – less to large AG business

3. 9th Street Bakery

Working on housing for apprenticeship

Timber frame design

Provide roof and floor – walls

Can be filled in with locally available materials

Getting markets started

Interfaith Food Shuttle

ECO at Piedmont Biofuels

Carolina Biofuels (Durham)

-could be a source for distribution/transportation service

Good work

-Supports entrepreneurial efforts – soon for youth also

Developing markets requires infrastructure

Canola – locally grown models being developed to enter competitive market

Need Food Policy Councils

-Triangle Food Commons/CIRA

-could provide support on these efforts

Farm Incubators – don’t know name of organizations

NC Farm Transition Network

Cedar Grove United Methodist Church in Cedar Grove, NC has some sort of vegetable gardening ministry

Camp Chestnut Ridge in Efland, NC has some sort of farm fostering initiative.

Infrastructure

-New value-added center in Orange County

-Eastern Carolina Organics-expanding

Eco

Farmhills Connect (not in Triangle)

(New Businesses) co-ops, restaurants interested in local

Meat processing plant – Siler City

Need more local options for small meat programs

How UNC farmers who are transitional to organic/sustainable practices with buyer

Eastern Infrastructure and support

Eastern Carolina Organic

Informal processing plant discussions\

Slow money, Franklin Street Partners, local investors

Shared use of kitchen facility-Hillsborough

ECO

New food processing plant within 50 miles of Carrboro

Fannie’s Market

State Farmer’s Market – no real organic section

Poultry processing (Mountains?)

Blue Ridge Food Ventures

(planning one in Orange County)

Food Pantry
Chipotle

Institutional purchasing

Farm to Fork

Raleigh meeting

Current Efforts